Sustainable Engineering : Process Intensification, Energy Analysis, and Artificial Intelligence

Sustainable Engineering Process Intensification, Energy Analysis, and Artificial Intelligence

Sustainable engineering is of great importance for resilient and agile technology and society. This book balances economics, environment, and societal elements of sustainable engineering by integrating process intensification, energy analysis, and artificial intelligence to reduce production costs,...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Demirel, Yaşar, author (author), Rosen, Marc A., author
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press [2023]
Subjects:
Sustainable engineering.
Engineering > Environmental aspects.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009869104306719
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Table of Contents
  • 1. Sustainable Engineering
  • Introduction and Objectives
  • 1.1 Sustainability
  • 1.1.1 Sustainability Dimensions
  • 1.1.2 Sustainability Science
  • 1.1.3 Sustainability Strategy
  • Equity, diversity, and inclusion
  • Environmental, social and governance
  • Socially responsible investing
  • Impact investing
  • 1.1.4 Environmental Impact Formulation
  • 1.2 Resilience
  • Sustainability and resilience
  • 1.2.1 Stability, Robustness, and Resilience
  • 1.3 Agility
  • 1.4 Integrated Sustainability, Resilience, and Agility Management
  • Stability, resilience, and agility
  • Stability and resilience
  • Building the strategically resilient and agile organization
  • 1.5 Why Sustainability Matters?
  • 1.6 Sustainable Engineering
  • Sustainable engineering design and performance
  • 1.6.1 Sustainable Engineering Principles
  • 1.6.2 Sustainable Engineering Techniques
  • 1.6.3 Environmental Sustainability
  • Environmental security
  • 1.6.4 Economic Sustainability
  • Aligning with stakeholder's priorities
  • 1.6.5 Societal Sustainability
  • Carrying capacity of Earth
  • Food-energy-water nexus
  • 1.6.6 Process Intensification and Sustainability
  • 1.6.7 Energy Analysis and Sustainability
  • Thermal efficiency and sustainability
  • Thermodynamic optimum
  • Efficient resource utilization
  • 1.6.8 Artificial Intelligence
  • First-principles models
  • Predictive analytics
  • Remote operation
  • Sustainability challenges
  • 1.6.9 Views Regarding Sustainable Engineering
  • 1.7 Sustainable Engineering: Energy Analysis, Artificial Intelligence, and Process Intensification
  • 1.8 United Nation Sustainable Development Goals
  • Bioeconomy strategy
  • Sustainable development
  • Resilient development
  • Summary
  • Nomenclature
  • Problems
  • Research Projects.
  • References
  • 2. Environmental Sustainability
  • Introduction and Objectives
  • 2.1 Environmental Sustainability and its Context
  • 2.2 Natural Earth Cycles
  • Carbon cycle
  • Nitrogen cycle
  • Nitrogen and sulfur compounds
  • 2.3 Greenhouse Gases
  • Impact of greenhouse gas emissions
  • 2.3.1 Carbon Tracking
  • 2.4 Ecological Footprint
  • 2.4.1 Climate Change
  • Global warming and climate change
  • Paleoclimatic data
  • 2.4.2 Environmental Burden
  • 2.4.3 Global Warming Potential
  • 2.4.4 Acidification
  • Atmospheric impact
  • Atmospheric acidification
  • Aquatic impact
  • Aquatic acidification
  • 2.4.5 Ozone Formation and Destruction
  • Stratospheric ozone deple
  • 2.4.6 Smog Formation
  • Photochemical ozone formation
  • 2.4.7 Human Health
  • 2.4.8 Toxicity
  • Impact to land
  • 2.4.9 Eutrophication
  • Aquatic oxygen demand
  • Stoichiometric oxygen demand (StOD)
  • 2.4.10 Habitat Destruction
  • 2.4.11 Resource Depletion
  • 2.4.12 Particulate Matter
  • 2.5 Carbon Capture
  • Carbon capture and utilization
  • Global warming potential
  • Solvent technology for carbon capture
  • 2.6 Decarbonization
  • 2.7 Carbon Utilization
  • 2.8 Environmental Cost of Carbon Emissions
  • 2.8.1 Environmental Impact Assessment
  • Summary
  • Nomenclature
  • Problems
  • Research Projects
  • References
  • 3. Economic Sustainability
  • Introduction and Objectives
  • 3.1 Economic Sustainability
  • Socioeconomic goals
  • 3.1.1 Energy Return on Investment
  • 3.1.2 Renewable Energy Cost
  • 3.1.3 Levelized Cost of Electricity
  • Value-adjusted levelized cost of electricity
  • 3.2 Circular Economy
  • 3.2.1 Circular Economy and Sustainability
  • Equitable society and sustainability
  • Customer feedback
  • Energy transition
  • 3.3 Bioeconomy
  • 3.3.1 Important Aspects of Bioeconomy
  • Bioeconomy and bioproducts
  • 3.3.2 Waste Management
  • Converting waste lignin into adipic acid.
  • Internal barriers to a bioeconomy
  • 3.3.3 Economic Assessment of Biofuels
  • Energy efficiency
  • Bioenergy production
  • 3.3.4 Bio Break Model
  • Willingness to pay
  • Willingness to accept
  • Bio break model for algal feedstock
  • 3.3.5 Bioeconomy and Circular Economy
  • 3.4 Green Economy
  • Natural capital
  • Green economy: hydrogen and ammonia
  • Green hydrogen
  • 3.5 Hydrogen, Ammonia and Methanol Economy
  • Hydrogen economy
  • Green ammonia
  • Methanol economy
  • 3.5.1 Methanol and the Environment
  • 3.5.2 Methanol Economy versus Hydrogen Economy
  • 3.6 Economic Cost of GHG Emissions
  • 3.6.1 Index of Ecological Cost
  • 3.6.2 Ecological Cost
  • 3.7 Thermoeconomics
  • Exergoeconomics
  • 3.7.1 Technoeconomic Analysis
  • Stochastic analysis of economic performance
  • Risk assessment
  • Sensitivity analysis
  • Summary
  • Nomenclature
  • Problems
  • Research Projects
  • References
  • 4. Societal Sustainability
  • Introduction and Objectives
  • 4.1 Societal Sustainability
  • 4.1.1 Societal Well-Being
  • Human health
  • 4.1.2 Social Responsibility
  • 4.1.3 Advancing Social Sustainability
  • 4.1.4 Human Development Index
  • 4.2 Social Investment
  • Equity, diversity, and inclusion
  • Sustainability and poverty
  • 4.2.1 Energy Return on Investment Society
  • 4.3 Social Cost of Carbon Emissions
  • Policy evolution of the SCC
  • 4.3.1 Health Effect of Biofuels
  • Summary
  • Nomenclature
  • Problems
  • Research Projects
  • References
  • 5. Sustainability Metrics
  • Introduction and Objectives
  • 5.1 Sustainability Impact and Indicators
  • Sustainability assessment
  • 5.1.1 Ecological Indicators
  • 5.1.2 Sociological Indicators
  • 5.1.3 Technological Indicators
  • 5.2 Sustainability Indices
  • 5.3 Sustainability Metrics
  • Measuring sustainability
  • 5.4 Human Development Index
  • 5.5 Sustainability Assessment Tools
  • EcoCalculator.
  • International frameworks and assessment tools
  • 5.5.1 Energy Assessments
  • Renewable energy technologies
  • Green energy
  • 5.6 Case Study: Sustainability Assessment of Hydrogen Production from Solid Fuels
  • Summary
  • Nomenclature
  • Problems
  • Research Projects
  • References
  • 6. Process Intensification
  • Introduction and Objectives
  • 6.1 Process Intensification
  • 6.1.1 Process Intensification Fundamentals
  • Process intensification vision
  • Key approaches to achieve the PI vision
  • Expected outcomes for the PI vision
  • Process intensification aspects
  • Outstanding challenges in PI
  • 6.1.2 Process Intensification Principles
  • 6.1.3 Process Intensification Domains
  • 6.1.4 Process Intensification Strategies
  • 6.1.5 Process Intensification Techniques
  • 6.1.6 Implementation of Process Intensification
  • 6.1.7 Operability of Intensified Processes
  • Process flexibility analysis
  • Multi-level reactor design
  • Scheduling and control
  • 6.1.8 Intensification Factor
  • 6.2 Intensification Methods and Modeling
  • Vision
  • Key approaches
  • Product development
  • Modeling and simulation
  • 6.2.1 Thermodynamic Method
  • Rate-based separation
  • Flash drum simulation and Henry's law
  • 6.2.2 Thermodynamic Analysis
  • Thermodynamic cost
  • Distillation columns
  • Column targeting tools
  • Exergy loss profiles
  • Equipartition principle
  • Heat exchanger operation modes
  • 6.2.3 Industry I4.0
  • 6.2.4 Six-Sigma Analysis
  • Probability density function and defects
  • Capacity lost in manufacturing due to defects
  • Procedures to improve performance
  • Design team and six sigma
  • Definitive screening design
  • Lean six sigma analysis and Industry 4.0
  • Six sigma and sustainable manufacturing
  • 6.3 Intensification in Units
  • 6.3.1 Advanced Separation Systems
  • Distillation columns
  • Reactive distillation column
  • Petlyuk column.
  • Reactive Petlyuk columns
  • Intensified carbon capture
  • Adsorptive separations
  • 6.3.2 Advanced Reactors
  • Structured catalytic reactors
  • Microreactors
  • Oscillatory flow reactors
  • Reverse flow reactors
  • 6.3.3 Reactor and Separators
  • Membrane-assisted reactive separation
  • 6.3.4 HiGee Technology
  • 6.3.5 Crystallization Equipment
  • 6.4 Intensification in Plants
  • 6.4.1 Modular Manufacturing
  • Streamlining design with a modular approach
  • 6.4.2 Heat Integration
  • 6.4.3 Optimization
  • 6.4.4 Process Synthesis
  • Municipal wastewater treatment
  • Integration of wastewater treatment with algal cultivation
  • Sewage sludge-to-hydrogen
  • Degradation of microplastics in wastewater
  • Decomposing plastics to monomers
  • 6.5 Biochemical Processes and Bioproducts
  • 6.5.1 Biopharmaceutical Processes
  • 6.5.2 Biotechnology
  • 6.5.3 Bioproducts
  • 6.6 Chemical Processes
  • 6.6.1 Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis
  • 6.6.2 Methanol, Ammonia and Hydrogen Production
  • 6.7 Thermochemical Processes with Chemical Looping Systems
  • 6.7.1 Thermochemical Processes
  • 6.7.2 Chemical Looping Systems
  • 6.7.3 Hydrothermal Conversion
  • Carbon dioxide to formic acid
  • Formic acid to methanol
  • Combination of chemical looping with hydrothermal conversion
  • Capturing and using CO2 as feedstock with chemical looping and hydrothermal technologies
  • Chemical looping gasification with Fischer−Tropsch synthesis
  • Chemical looping gasification for ammonia production
  • 6.8 Green Engineering Processes
  • Ascribing economic value to natural processes
  • Understanding biodiversity net gain
  • Decarbonization
  • 6.8.1 Biorefinery
  • Biomass conversion processes
  • Microwave processing
  • Supercritical fluid extraction
  • Green steam crackers
  • 6.8.2 Fermentation
  • Ethanol fermentation
  • Lactic acid fermentation
  • 6.8.3 Anaerobic Digestion
  • Natural gas pyrolysis.
  • Propylene carbonate and polypropylene carbonate production.

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