Designed to meet sustainability and environmental challenges facing researchers, professionals, and students of the chemical discipline, this series includes textbooks and references that focus on the science and technology of reducing adverse impacts of chemicals and processes on the environment. The series details the development of alternative sustainable technologies that will minimize hazards and maximize process efficiency. It includes but is not limited to topics such as green separation technologies, mitigation of harmful substances, carbon dioxide sequestration, greenhouse chemicals, and global warming issues.
By Fotis Rigas
September 18, 2024
While hydrogen is of vital and growing importance in many industrial sectors, this volatile substance poses unique challenges, including easy leakage, low ignition energy, a wide range of combustible fuel-air mixtures, buoyancy, and its ability to embrittle metals that are required to ensure safe ...
By Tin Sin Lee, Soo Tueen Bee
June 04, 2024
Microplastics Pollution and Worldwide Policies on Plastic Use discusses microplastic pollution and global policies developed to tackle the problem. It details the mechanisms of microplastics occurrence, sources, and impacts. It then offers a comprehensive overview of the various policies ...
By Krishnan Sankaranarayanan
September 05, 2023
Using classic thermodynamic principles as the point of departure, this new edition of a popular resource supplies the understanding and tools required to measure process ef ciency and sustainability with much improved accuracy. Exploring the driving forces in the chemical and power industries, ...
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By Viknesh Andiappan, Denny K S Ng, Santanu Bandyopadhyay
December 08, 2022
To curb the impacts of rising CO2 emissions, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report states that a net zero target needs to be achieved by the year 2055. Experts argue that this is a critical time to make important and accurate decisions. Thus, it is essential to have the right tools ...
By Dominic C. Y. Foo, Raymond R. Tan
April 07, 2020
Process Integration Approaches to Planning Carbon Management Networks provides a comprehensive treatment of carbon emissions pinch analysis (CEPA), covering the fundamentals as well as more advanced variants based on mathematical programming. A significant portion of the book is dedicated to case ...
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By Iqbal M. Mujtaba, Thokozani Majozi, Mutiu Kolade Amosa
October 30, 2018
Exponential growth in population and improved standards of living demand increasing amount of freshwater and are putting serious strain on the quantity of naturally available freshwater worldwide. Water Management: Social and Technological Perspectives discusses developments in energy-efficient ...
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By Mohammad J. Taherzadeh, Tobias Richards
October 18, 2017
Current development results in a linear flow from raw material to waste, which cannot be sustainable in the long term. Plus, a global population of 7 billion people means that there are 7 billion waste producers in the world. At present, dumping and landfilling are the primary practices for getting...
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By Sunggyu Lee, James G. Speight, Sudarshan K. Loyalka
September 18, 2018
While strides are being made in the research and development of environmentally acceptable and more sustainable alternative fuels—including efforts to reduce emissions of air pollutants associated with combustion processes from electric power generation and vehicular transportation—fossil fuel ...
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By Xing L. Yan, Ryutaro Hino
April 25, 2018
Written by two leading researchers from the world-renowned Japan Atomic Energy Agency, the Nuclear Hydrogen Production Handbook is an unrivalled overview of current and future prospects for the effective production of hydrogen via nuclear energy. Combining information from scholarly analyses, ...
By Fotis Rigas
March 09, 2018
Hydrogen Safety highlights physiological, physical, and chemical hazards associated with hydrogen production, storage, distribution, and use systems. It also examines potential accident scenarios that could occur with hydrogen use under certain conditions. The number of potential applications for ...
By Jean-Luc Wertz, Magali Deleu, Séverine Coppée, Aurore Richel
October 06, 2017
Hemicelluloses and Lignin in Biorefineries provides an understanding of lignocellulosic biomass, which is mainly composed of cellulose, hemicelluloses, and lignin. It promotes the valorization of these molecules in the context of the bioeconomy and presents hemicelluloses and lignin, which are ...
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By Sunggyu Lee, David Henthorn
October 12, 2017
While the interdisciplinary field of materials science and engineering is relatively new, remarkable developments in materials have emerged for biological and medical applications, from biocompatible polymers in medical devices to the use of carbon nanotubes as drug delivery vehicles. Exploring ...