Sustainable Design Through Process Integration

Dr. Mahmoud El-Halwagi is professor and holder of the McFerrin Professorship at the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University. He is internationally recognized for pioneering contributions in the principles and applications of process integration and sustainable design. He has served as a consultant to a wide variety of processing industries. He is a fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and is the recipient of prestigious research and educational awards including the American AIChE Sustainable Engineering Forum Research Excellence Award, the Celanese and the Fluor Distinguished Teaching Awards, and the US National Science Foundation's National Young Investigator Award.

1. Introduction to Sustainability, Sustainable Design, and Process Integration
2. Overview of Process Economics
3. Benchmarking Process Performance Through Overall Mass Targeting
4. Direct-Recycle Networks: Graphical and Algebraic Targeting Approaches
5. Synthesis of Mass-Exchange Networks
6. Combining Mass-Integration Strategies
7. Heat Integration
8. Integration of Combined Heat and Power Systems
9. Synthesis of Heat-Induced Separation Network for Condensation of Volatile
10. Property Integration
11. Overview of Optimization
12. An Optimization Approach to Direct Recycle
13. Synthesis of Mass-Exchange Networks: A Mathematical Programming Approach
14. Synthesis of Reactive Mass-Exchange Networks
15. Mathematical Optimization Techniques for Mass Integration
16. Mathematical Techniques for the Synthesis of Heat-Exchange Networks
17. Synthesis of Combined Heat and Reactive Mass-Exchange Networks
18. Water- Energy Nexus for Thermal Desalination Processes
19. Design of Membrane-Separation Systems
20. Macroscopic Approaches of Process Integration
21. Concluding Thoughts: Launching Successful Process-Integration Initiatives and Applications
Appendix I: Conversion Relationships for Concentrations and Conversion Factor for Units
Appendix II: Modeling of Mass-Exchange Units for Environmental Applications