Research and Markets: Sustainable Development in the Process Industries: Cases and Impact Offers Sound Solutions to Social, Ecological, and Economic Challenges

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/585afe/sustainable_develo) has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd's new book "Sustainable Development in the Process Industries: Cases and Impact" to their offering.

“Sustainable Development in the Process Industries: Cases and Impact”

The complete, hands-on guide to sustainable development

Today's process industries must develop natural resources within an eco-friendly framework that balances current demand with future need. Realizing this goal necessitates global vigilance of three key areas: people, planet, and prosperity, known as the Triple Bottom Line or, simply, the Triple P.

Sustainable Development in the Process Industries details how worldwide implementation of sustainable processes in present-day industries can positively influence the Triple P going forward by lowering poverty, reducing pollution, and conserving resources.

This in-depth guide includes:

• Real-world case studies and examples
• Individual chapters written by industry experts
• Application in industries such as petroleum and fuel, food, recycling, mineral processing, and water processing
• Focus on the micro (molecules, unit operations, processes) to the macro (industrial sites, value chains, regions, the world)

Providing lessons with practical application rather than pure theory, Sustainable Development in the Process Industries offers sound solutions to social, ecological, and economic challenges imperative to assuring our planet's well-being for generations.

Key Topics Covered:

• Introduction.
• 2 Sustainability Metrics, Indicators, and Indices for the Process Industries.
• 3 Resource Efficiency of Chemical Manufacturing Chains - Present and Future.
• 4 Regional integration of processes, agriculture and society.
• 5 Eco-Industrial Parks in the Netherlands: the Rotterdam Harbour and Industry Complex.
• 6 By-product Synergy Networks: Driving Innovation through Waste Reduction and Carbon Mitigation.
• 7 Fast pyrolysis of biomass for energy and chemicals: Technologies at pilot plant, demo-plant and commercial scale.
• 8 The Integrated Corn-Based Biorefinery: A Case Study in Sustainable Process Development.
• 9. Cellulosic Biofuels - a sustainable option for Transportation.
• 10 DSMs New Integrated Urea-Melamine Process: A Sustainable Industrial Process Development.
• 11 Sustainable Innovation in the Chemical Industry: An overview of commercial impacts.
• 12 Implementation of sustainable strategies in Small-Medium Enterprises (SMEs) based upon the concept of Cleaner Production: A case study from an anodizing company.
• 13 Microbial Engineering and Bioleaching: Application to the Sustainable Concepts of Metals Recycling and Mineral Processing.
• 14 Application of Industrial Ecosystem Principles in Industrial Symbiosis (By-Product Synergy) - Successful Experience from The Dow Chemical Company.

Author:

Jan Harmsen is principal process developer at Shell. He has thirty-two years of industrial experience at Shell with positions in the following departments: exploratory research, development, process design, and chemicals manufacturing. He is also, since 1997, part-time Hoogewerff Professor of Sustainable Chemical Technology at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands.

Joseph B. Powell is Shell's Chief Scientist, Chemical Engineering. He joined the Process Development Department at Shell's Westhollow Technology Center (Houston) in 1988, where he has led major R&D programs. Dr. Powell has been granted forty-five U.S. patents and several industry awards, including the A. D. Little Award for Chemical Engineering Innovation (AIChE 1998).

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