Description
Environmental Sustainability and Industries identifies and discusses critical areas related to environmentally conscious industrial development of products and services that may support more sustainable and equitable societies.This book addresses pollution prevention by referring to the use of processes, practices, and materials that reduce or eliminate the generation of pollutants at the source of production, more efficient use of raw materials, energy, water or other resources, or by conserving natural resources by maintaining clean production. It explains industrial energy efficiency as the most cost-effective use of energy in manufacturing processes, reducing its wastage as well as the total consumption of primary energy resources.Life cycle assessment is used as an analytical method to quantify environmental impacts, focusing on environmental considerations concerning process design and optimization, and including various sustainable manufacturing parameters in the context of industrial processes and proposes a classification of identified parameters to evaluate and optimize the manufacturing performances. The book also dives into industrial ecology, investigating how, where, and why environmental improvements can be made to develop a sustainable industry, meeting the needs of current generations without sacrificing the needs of the future ones.This book analyzes a company's environmental, social, and economic performance and their interrelationships, emphasizing the importance of identifying and understanding causal relationships between alternative approaches to action and their impact on financial and nonfinancial performance. It concludes with a view on the future of sustainable industrial systems stressing change as a joint effort of scientists, governments, people in business, and academicians.- Offers compiled information on the environmental sustainability for industry- Provides principles and advanced trends and approaches for environmental sustainability for the industrial sector- Discusses established and emerging technologies and processes for sustainable approaches for industry- Presents the development in the use of the assessment models as a tool to support the research and applications of different sustainable technologies and processes
Table of Contents
Part 1. Pollution Prevention and Cleaner Production1. Processes and Technologies for Water Reuse in the Industry2. Municipal Water Treatment with Special Emphasis on Biosorption and Nanoparticles3. Clearing the Air: Technologies for Monitoring and Control of Air Pollution4. Nanotechnology: An Emerging Strategy for Combating Air Pollution5. Biochar Based Composting for Sustainable and Eco-friendly Agriculture6. Sustainable Bio-based Technologies for Waste and Wastewater Treatment Integrated with Value-Added Products7. Recent Trends in the Application of Biowaste for Hazardous Radioactive Waste Treatment8. Bio-degradable Plastics as a Substitute to Traditional Polythenes: A Step Towards a Safer Environment9. Two Dimensional Nanomaterial Based Chemosensors for the Detection of Contaminants in Air and WaterPart 2. Industrial Energy Efficiency10. Nanomaterials in Sustainable Industrial Applications11. Metal-Organic Framework Based Membranes in Energy ApplicationPart 3. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of Industrial Processes12. Industry and Environmental Life Cycle Assessment: Background and Perspective13. Process System Engineering and the Development of Tools for Environmental Considerations in the Perspective of Industrial Ecology14. Life Cycle Assessment of BiorefineryPart 4. Sustainability Assessments of Industry15. Avoiding Waste and Generating Environmental, Social and Economic Gains Through Industrial Social Ecology Networks16. Sustainability and Process Intensification in Wastewater TreatmentPart 5. Industrial Ecology17. Industrial Symbiosis and Eco-industrial Parks18. Process Intensification and Green Engineering in Process Industry19. Economic Development, Economic Complexity and Environmental Performance: In Search of Common GroundPart 6. Education for Industrial Sustainability20. Design of Sustainable and Environmentally Friendly Processes for Industries21. Fruitful Controversies in Sustainable Livestock Production: Beyond the Intensive vs. Extensive Livestock Polarization in Non-Forest EcosystemsPart 7. Corporate Sustainability22. Sustainable Technologies and Corporate Sustainability
