Intensification and Sustainability in Chemical Engineering serves as a comprehensive guide to chemical process engineering and sustainability. Across four sections, the book covers topics such as sustainability metrics, energy efficiency, renewable energy integration, green synthesis, process intensification, circular economy, electrification, biotechnology, digitalization, and nanotechnology - all of which are crucial concepts in developing sustainable chemical processes as they address challenges, drive sustainability, and promote innovation within the field. This book serves as an invaluable resource to students at postgraduate and late undergraduate level within chemical engineering, as well as other engineering disciplines involving sustainable chemical processes.
It is also a useful reference for students, industrial researchers, and process designers working in other industries, or for decision/policymakers looking to make their research design and practices more sustainable and reduce environmental impacts.
It is also a useful reference for students, industrial researchers, and process designers working in other industries, or for decision/policymakers looking to make their research design and practices more sustainable and reduce environmental impacts.
Table of Contents
Section I: Foundations and Emerging Trends1. Introduction: The Role of Intensification, Sustainability, and Innovation in the Chemical Engineering of the 21st Century
2. Global Challenges and Future Perspectives
Section II: Sustainable Processes and Technologies
3. Sustainability Metrics and Assessment in Chemical Engineering
4. Energy-Efficient Operation and Integration of Reaction and Downstream Processes
5. Renewable Energy Integration in Chemical Processes
6. Nuclear Energy in Sustainable Chemical Engineering
7. Renewable Feedstock Utilization in Chemical Processing
8. Green and Sustainable Chemical Synthesis
9. Net-Zero Chemical Processing 10. Process Intensification in the Chemical Industry
11. Circular Economy, Recycling and Waste Valorization
12. Photochemistry in Chemical Processing
13. Electrification of the Chemical Industry
14. The Role of Biotechnology in Sustainable Chemical Engineering
Section III: Advanced Manufacturing and Control
15. Continuous Manufacturing in the Chemical Processing
16. Digitalization, Automation, Artificial Intelligence, and Control in Process Intensification
17. Model-Based Process Intensification
Section IV: Innovations in Catalysis and Materials
18. Advanced Catalysts and Sustainable Catalytic Processes
19. Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials in Chemical Engineering
Authors
C�ntia Soares Chemical and Food Engineering Department, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florian�polis, Santa Catarina, Brazil. C�ntia Soares is a Full Professor at the Chemical and Food Engineering Department of Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Florian�polis/SC, Brazil. C�ntia has a strong background in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), with several papers published in this field in well-recognized journals. C�ntia is involved with the Elsevier published Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering (JECE), Chemical Engineering Science (CES) and with the Springer Nature published Brazilian Journal of Chemical Engineering. Natan Padoin Chemical and Food Engineering Department, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florian�polis, Santa Catarina, Brazil. Natan Padoin is an Adjunct Professor at the Chemical and Food Engineering Department of Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Florian�polis/SC, Brazil. Natan has a strong background in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), with several papers published in this field in well-recognized journals. He is also involved with the Elsevier published Chemical Engineering Journal (CEJ). Simon Kuhn Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.Simon Kuhn is a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. Simon is specifically interested in transport processes and reactions, with expertise centered on experimental and computational aspects of transport limitations in chemical engineering applications, and their scale-up from the micro- to production scale. This rational approach by combining numerical and experimental techniques will support a reactor design toolbox for process intensification. Simon is involved with the Elsevier published Chemical Engineering Science journal.
