Toward Zero Discharge: Innovative Methodology and Technologies for Process Pollution Prevention

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.