Process Integration for Sustainable Industries

Process integration (PI) is defined as “ a holistic approach to design and operation that emphasi s es the unity of the process .” PI has been used primarily to improve the efficiency of process plants, thereby improving profitability while reducing resource consumption and waste generation. These are core objectives for a sustainable industry. As such, PI is an effective framework for systematically generating sustainable strategies for the design and operation of industrial facilities. In this article, various PI tools developed for sustainable industrial processes are presented. These tools are meant to conserve natural resources, reduce emissions and wastes, and enhance process efficiency in order to improve sustainability.

[1]  Robin Smith,et al.  Chemical Process: Design and Integration , 2005 .

[2]  Mahmoud M. El-Halwagi,et al.  Component-less design of recovery and allocation systems: a functionality-based clustering approach , 2000 .

[3]  M. El‐Halwagi.  Pollution prevention through process integration : systematic design tools , 1997 .

[4]  Mahmoud M. El-Halwagi,et al.  Process integration technology review: background and applications in the chemical process industry , 2003 .

[5]  D. Glasser,et al.  Geometry of the Attainable Region Generated by Reaction and Mixing: With and without Constraints , 1990 .

[6]  Igor Bulatov,et al.  Sustainability in the Process Industry: Integration and Optimization , 2010 .

[7]  Jacques F. Gouws,et al.  Water Minimization Techniques for Batch Processes , 2010 .

[8]  Mahmoud M. El-Halwagi,et al.  Synthesis of mass exchange networks , 1989 .

[9]  Dominic C.Y. Foo,et al.  Process Integration for Resource Conservation , 2012 .

[10]  Jiří Jaromír Klemeš,et al.  Forty years of Heat Integration: Pinch Analysis (PA) and Mathematical Programming (MP) , 2013 .

[11]  Bodo Linnhoff,et al.  A User guide on process integration for the efficient use of energy , 1994 .

[12]  Christodoulos A. Floudas,et al.  Synthesis of isothermal reactor—separator—recycle systems , 1991 .

[13]  D. Foo.  State-of-the-Art Review of Pinch Analysis Techniques for Water Network Synthesis , 2009 .

[14]  Denny K. S. Ng,et al.  Process Integration for Cleaner Process Design , 2013 .

[15]  U. V. Shenoy,et al.  Unified conceptual approach to targeting and design of water and hydrogen networks , 2006 .