As the pressures on the chemical and process industries to improve their environmental
performance are increasing, the need to move away from narrow system definitions and …

This paper presents a review of the procedures to design and retrofit water networks.
Although the emphasis is in showing results for refineries, the methods are valid for any …

This paper addresses the minimisation of wastewater in the process industries. Targets are
first set which maximise water re-use. The approach used allows individual process …

The purpose of this work is to introduce the notion of synthesizing mass‐exchange networks
(MEN's). A systematic, two‐stage, procedure is proposed for the synthesis of cost‐effective …

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In the debate over pollution control, the price of pollution is a key issue. But which is more
costly: clean up or prevention? From regulations to technology selection to equipment …

One of the main potential uses of life cycle assessment (LCA) in environmental management
is for identifying options for environmental improvements of a system in which complete …

Water network synthesis has been an active area of research for the past one and a half
decades. Many think that the technology reached a mature stage in the late 1990s …

In this study, it was discussed the possibilities of integrating biorefineries based on different
generations of feedstock. The potential of using CO 2-rich streams was analyzed for the …

This article first reviews recent developments in process synthesis and discusses some of
the major challenges in the theory and practice in this area. Next, the article reviews key …