Product Description

This book discusses pathways to achieve pollution prevention and waste minimization at the sources leading toward zero discharge. Coverage includes life cycle assessment, industrial ecology, eco-industrial parks, green engineering, and sustainable chemical and allied processes and products development. The pulp and paper industry is introduced as a case study in demonstrating how this industry is achieving pollution prevention goals by various techniques, and how this industry has become a minimum impact industry, moving towards achieving zero discharge status in most process areas.
Featuring a collection of expert authors, this book is essential reading for industrial ecologists and engineers, material scientists, and state and federal officials.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1617777 in Books
• Published on: 2005-03-25
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 1.55" h x 6.44" w x 9.48" l, 2.58 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 744 pages

Review
"Das authoritatively discusses pollution control in the industry and processes that could lead to zero discharge." (Journal of Hazardous Materials, August 2006)

" Extremely interesting cases histories …could make a popular book for engineering students and our future scientists." (Chemistry and Industry, 19th June 2006)

"…it would be useful for specialized audiences in academic or professional libraries covering the areas of engineering or environmental studies." (E-STREAMS, May 2006)

From the Back Cover
New pathways for achieving pollution prevention and waste minimization at the source

With natural resource consumption and waste generation placing enormous stress on delicate ecosystems, industry is joining the research community in developing long-term perspectives and more efficient technologies and systems for production, resource conservation, and waste minimization. Zero discharge—which is simply industrial ecology applied at the manufacturing level—is a practical approach, with a concrete methodology, for redesigning processes so that they have no discharges.

Integrating environmental, social, and economic interests into effective and sustainable chemical and allied business strategies, Toward Zero Discharge: Innovative Methodology and Technologies for Process Pollution Prevention conveys the state of the art in industrial pollution prevention leading to zero discharge.

In this contributed volume, recognized experts in the field present methodology and strategies for, and evaluation and quantification of, zero discharge and process pollution prevention. This reference explores technologies and applications, and provides case studies and real-world examples. Coverage includes:

• Sustainability and sustainable development in the chemical and allied industries
• Life cycle assessment
• Industrial ecology, eco-industrial parks, and green engineering
• Case studies of the pulp and paper and other industries

By illuminating recent progress in process pollution prevention, this will be an invaluable resource for professionals in industry and research who wish to exploit available techniques to realize the ecological and economic ideal of zero discharge at the source.

About the Author
TAPAS K. DAS, PhD, PE, DEE, is a chemical and environmental engineer working with the Department of Ecology Air Quality Program at Olympia, Washington. He is currently engaged in a state and nationwide study to evaluate air toxic emissions and other pollutants from Kraft and Sulfite pulping processes. Dr. Das holds a BSc in chemical engineering from Jadavpur University, Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), India, and PhD from Bradford University, Bradford, England. Dr. Das was a postdoctoral fellow at London's Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine, Department of Chemical Engineering, and at Princeton University. He has wide practical and theoretical experience and expertise in various areas including air toxics and aerosols, wastewater characterization and treatment, solid waste management, and combustion.