Towards Sustainable Chemical Processes: Applications of Sustainability Assessment and Analysis, Design and Optimization, and Hybridization and Modularization provides a comprehensive framework for sustainability assessment, design, and optimization of chemical engineering processes based on the principles of process system engineering and operations research methods. The book focuses on sustainability science and process system engineering, including mathematical models, industrial ecology, circular economy, energy planning, process integration, and sustainability engineering. The book is an indispensable guide for chemical engineers and researchers focusing on technology and process development, practitioners and consultants in sustainability related areas, and students needing to learn sustainability-related skills.
- Provides innovative, novel and comprehensive methods and models for sustainability assessment, design and optimization, and synthesis and integration of chemical engineering processes
- Combines sustainability science with process system engineering
- Involves mathematical models, industrial ecology, circular economy, energy planning, process integration, and sustainability engineering
- Includes new case studies related to renewable energy, resource management, process synthesis, and process integration
- Helps understand methods for energy efficiency improvement, emissions reduction, and social benefits improvement
Part 1: Sustainability Assessment and Analysis
1. Sustainability Assessment in Chemical Product and Process Design During Early Design Stages
2. Optimization and Decision-making models for Sustainable Tri-generation Systems
3. Techno-Economic Assessment of an Integrated Bio-oil Steam Reforming and Hydrodeoxygenation System for Polygeneration of Hydrogen, Chemicals and Combined Heat and Power Production
4. Risk and Resilience Analysis of Integrated Biorefineries using Input-output Modeling
5. Advanced integrated systems for hydrogen production, storage and utilization
Part 2: Sustainability Design and Optimization
6. Energy System Optimization
7. Sustainable Utilization of low-grade heat
8. Sustainable Design of Industrial area-wide layout design
9. Sustainable Design of Cooling Water System
10. Pinch Analysis
11. Model-based Synthesis and Monte Carlo Simulation of Biochar-based Carbon Management Networks
Part 3: Sustainable manufacturing via hybridization and modularization
12. Frontiers of Sustainable Manufacturing: hybridization and modularization
13. Hybrid Processes for Sustainable Liquids Production from Lignite, Natural Gas and Biomass
14. Hybrid Processes for Sustainable chemicals production from Shale Gas and Ethanol
15. Modular Chemicals Manufacturing from Shale Gas
Jingzheng Ren is Assistant Professor of Modelling for Energy, Environment and Sustainability at the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering of Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU). He has also been nominated as adjunct/honorary associate professor of University of Southern Denmark (Denmark) and associated senior research fellow of the Institute for Security & Development Policy (Stockholm, Sweden). Prof. Ren serves as board member of several scientific journals and published more than 150 papers, authored 1 book, edited more than 10 books and published more than 40 book chapters. His research focuses on process system engineering for better sustainability and mathematical models for solving energy and environmental problems and promoting sustainability transition Yufei Wang is an associate professor in Collage of Chemical Engineering and Environment, China University of Petroleum. He expertise in design, optimization and synthesis of various Energy System using Process Integration technologies. He serves as Editorial Board of three Chinese Journals, and Guest Editors of several international Journals. Till now, he has edited two books focusing on Energy saving and its application in real industry and published over 70 journal papers and book chapters. Chang He is an associate professor in School of materials science and engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University. His research interests lie at the interface of chemical engineering and applied mathematics. He has published 50+ papers and book chapters.
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