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. front-end loading approaches to greenfield design and process improvement projects
5. direct-recycle networks
6. synthesis of mass-exchange networks
7. combining mass-integration strategies
8. heat integration
9: integration of combined heat and power systems
10. synthesis of heat-induced separation network for condensation of volatile organic compounds
11. property integration
12. overview of optimization
13. an optimization approach to direct recycle
14. synthesis of mass-exchange networks: a mathematical programming approach
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
19. thermal desalination processes
20. design of membrane networks
21. integration of solar energy with industrial infrastructure and resources
22. modular design and distributed manufacturing
23. inherently safer design and resilience
24. carbon management and monetization
25. industrial symbiosis
26. macroscopic approaches of process integration
27. concluding thoughts: launching successful process-integration initiatives and applications