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Sustainability Engineering

A Design Guide for the Chemical Process Industry

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  • © 2016

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Authors:
  1. Jeffery Perl

    1. Chicago Chem Consultants Corp, Chicago, USA

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  • Introduces holistic process designs that emphasizes sustainability as a core requirement from the outset
  • Demonstrates how to combine chemical, mechanical and natural processes to optimize material and energy utilization in a sustainable manner
  • Instructs readers on evaluating the overall approach for sustainability within cost and safety constraints
  • Presents a practical, methodical approach that can be used in industrial settings, as well as for the preparation of young chemical engineers in the capstone course of senior process design

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxii
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  2. Introduction: Enlightened Self-Interest for the Enthusiastic Capitalist

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    Pages 1-15

  3. ChE Sustainability Engineering Design Approach: Bread and Butter

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    Pages 17-30

  4. Material and Energy Sources and Sinks

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    Pages 31-45

  5. The Efficiency of All Things

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    Pages 47-66

  6. New Product Design and Alternative Process Chemistry: SE Manufacturing Choices

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    Pages 67-74

  7. Environment, Safety, and Occupational Health (ESOH) Regulations

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    Pages 75-86

  8. ChE SE Technology Equipment and Utilization Toolbox

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    Pages 87-112

  9. SE Industrial Process Examples

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    Pages 113-134

  10. Total Quality Management and Sustainability Engineering

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    Pages 135-146

  11. Government Regulatory Development for Sustainability Engineering

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    Pages 147-160

  12. Sustainability Engineering in Various Engineering Disciplines and Industry Segments: Challenges and Opportunities

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    Pages 161-175

  13. Sustainability Engineering Design Resolution Roadmap: Where Do We Go from Here?

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    Pages 177-185

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 187-239
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About this book

This book explores sustainability engineering through the lens of the manufacturing and chemical process industries to elucidate the safe and economic implementation of process designs used to transform raw materials into useful finished products. The author applies the tenets of sustainability science to develop an engineering methodology that supports the perpetual availability of raw materials through recycling/reuse/repurposing, incorporates inexhaustible supplies, such as solar energy and municipal waste, and encompasses the husbandry of these resources in a manner that minimizes negative environmental impacts. Anyone involved in the design or manufacture of chemicals, or the upgrade of existing manufacturing processes, will benefit from this book’s suggestions for identifying improvement options, while adding the pivotal aspect of sustainability to the usual cost and safety equation optimization elements.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Chicago Chem Consultants Corp, Chicago, USA

    Jeffery Perl

About the author

Dr. Jeffery Perl, PE, CHMM has been President of Chicago Chem Consultants Corporation (CCC) for the past 30 years. Over the years, CCC’s work has focused on chemical process engineering, hazardous waste treatment and environment, safety and occupational health management systems (ESOH-MS) and related engineering activities. Dr. Perl is a former plant manager and process engineer for a national solvent chemical recovery and recycling business. His specialties include chemical process design, engineering and troubleshooting, pollution prevention, Superfund remediation design, negotiations with state regulators, chemical separation processes and bringing new products to market. He has contributed forensic engineering evidence and expert testimony regarding root cause of process failures leading to workplace accidents involving death or injury as well as premature production failure, as well as Fraud, Waste and Abuse in federal government contracting. He provides investment and technical reviews of new product or technical service opportunities for corporate, venture capital and private investors. Jeff also served as Adjunct Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, for 6 years, from 2008-2014, teaching the two semester senior chemical process design engineering course.  Dr. Perl has authored numerous technical papers, and has undertaken conference presentations and chaired symposia.  He served in the United States Air Force Reserve from 1993 through 2004 with three by-name request HQ assignments over 10 years, including work on AF environmental and pollution prevention contracting and compliance issues for the AF Center for Environmental Excellence, San Antonio TX HQ and later in the office of The Air Force Surgeon General in Washington DC, where he focused on active duty readiness issues.
Dr. Perl is a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) as well as The Institute of Hazardous Materials Management (IHMM).  For the past 8 years Jeff has served on the National Council of Examiners of Engineers and Surveyors (NCEES), professional engineering (PE) chemical exam licensing committee.  Jeff is a private pilot who also enjoys tinkering with geothermal heat pumps


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Sustainability Engineering

  • Book Subtitle: A Design Guide for the Chemical Process Industry

  • Authors: Jeffery Perl

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32495-1

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Energy, Energy (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81299-1Published: 31 May 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-32495-1Published: 07 July 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXXII, 239

  • Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 14 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Energy Efficiency, Industrial Pollution Prevention, Industrial and Production Engineering

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