Green Process Engineering
From Concepts to Industrial Applications

This book has been edited by Martine Poux, Patrick Cognet and Christophe Gourdon from the Laboratoire de Génie Chimique/ENSIACET, Toulouse. It presents an ensemble of methods and new chemical engineering routes that can be integrated in industrial processing for safer, more flexible, economical, and ecological production processes in the context of green and sustainable engineering.

Different methods for improving process performance are dealt with, including:

• Eco-design and process optimization by systemic approaches

• New technologies for intensification

• Radical change of industrial processes via the use of new media and new routes for chemical

synthesis. These various methods are fully illustrated with examples and industrial cases, making this book application oriented.

General introduction

Part 1: Tools for green process engineering

Green process engineering design methodology: a multicriteria approach

Process optimization strategies

Representation and modelling of processes

Part 2: Technologies and innovative methods for intensification

Process Intensification by Miniaturization

Multifunctional reactors

Ultrasound in Process Engineering: New Look at Old Problems

Microwaves: a potential technology for green process development

Intensification through formulation

Part 3: A new generation of processes

Supercritical CO2, the key solvent for sustainable processes

Ionic liquids

Water as solvent and solvent-free reactions

Electrochemical processes for a sustainable development

Photocatalytic engineering

Biocatalysis and Bioprocesses

Catalysis Contribution to a Sustainable Chemistry