Scope and Organization of this Book

In the chemical industry, water is extensively used as a reactant, separation solvent and heating/cooling medium, and therefore the water integration is required due to both economic and environmental reasons. In Chapter 12, Sharma and Rangaiah present a mathematical model that can be used for grassroots and retrofit design of water networks. 

Carvalho, A., Gani, R., and Matos, H. (2008) Design of sustainable chemical processes systematic retrofit analysis generation and evaluation of alternatives. Process Safety and Environment Protection, 86, 328-346. 

Douglas, J.M. (1988) Conceptual Design of Chemical Processes, McGraw-HUl, New York. 

Fisher, W.R., Doherty, M.F. and Douglas, J.M. (1987) Screening of Process Retrofit Alternatives, Industrial Engineering Chemistry Research, 26, 2195-2204. 

Jensen, N., CoU, N., and Gani, R. (2003) An integrated computer-aided system for generation and evaluation of sustainable process alternatives. Clean Technology Environment Policy, 5, 209-225. 

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This chapter introduces the need for process equipment failure rate data, defines the scope and organization of this book and the data it contains, and explains how to the use the book. 

The rest of this chapter is organized as follows. The next two sections respectively cover basics and methods for MOO. In the fourth section, optimization of a typical process for multiple objectives is described. The scope and organization of this book that includes an outline of individual chapters are presented in the last section. 

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