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ABOUT THE BOOK

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, Efficiency and Sustainability in the Energy and Chemical Industries: Scientific Principles and Case Studies, Third Edition investigates why losses occur and explains how to reduce them. It focuses on the changing roles of refining and chemicals in industry and how the industry is transforming itself, and considers economics as a key enabler to look at technology choices and whether shareholder returns will be there.

• Includes new chapters on plastics recycling technologies and challenges, low carbon energy sources, the changing energy mix, and project economics, taxes, and subsidies
• Illustrates techniques with wide-ranging case studies related to energy conversion, mining, and the chemical industries as well as examples and problems
• Considers engineering layouts that reduce the environmental impact of chemical operations
• Explains how to use energy analysis to accurately assess the quality and performance of chemical processes
• Supplies quantitative tools for analyzing sustainability and efficiency
• Investigates the challenges of the hydrogen economy and CO2 and low carbon
• Discusses plastics recycling, economics, and a changing energy mix

Complete with the keys to quantification of process efficiency and sustainability, this cutting-edge book is the ideal guide for those engaged in the transition from fossil-based fuels to renewable and sustainable energy sources using low-waste procedures.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART I Basics

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Thermodynamics Revisited

Chapter 3 Energy “Consumption” and Lost Work

Chapter 4 Entropy Generation: Cause and Effect

Chapter 5 Reduction of Lost Work

PART II Thermodynamic Analysis of Processes

Chapter 6 Exergy, a Convenient Concept

Chapter 7 Chemical Exergy

Chapter 8 Simple Applications

PART III Case Studies

Chapter 9 Energy Conversion

Chapter 10 Separations

Chapter 11 Chemical Conversion

Chapter 12 A Note on Life Cycle Analysis

PART IV Sustainability

Chapter 13 Sustainable Development

Chapter 14 Efciency and Sustainability in the Chemical Process Industry

Chapter 15 Plastics Recycling

Chapter 16 Project Economics, Taxes, and Subsidies for Sustainability

Chapter 17 Low Carbon

Chapter 18 A Changing Energy Mix

Chapter 19 CO 2 Capture and Sequestration

Chapter 20 Sense and Nonsense of Green Chemistry and Biofuels

Chapter 21 Solar Energy Conversion

Chapter 22 Hydrogen: Fuel of the Future?

Chapter 23 Future Trends