Toward Zero Discharge: Innovative Methodology and ...

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.brFeaturing a collection of expert authors, this book is essential reading for industrial ecologists and engineers, material scientists, and state and federal officials.Foreword.pAcknowledgments.p1 INTRODUCTION.p1.1 Waste as Pollution.p1.2 Defining Pollution Prevention.p1.3 The Zero Discharge Paradigm.p1.4 The Structure of the Book.pPART I: METHODOLOGY.p2 ZERO DISCHARGE INDUSTRIES.p2.1 Sustainability, Industrial Ecology and Zero Discharge.p2.2 Why Zero Discharge is Critical to Sustainability.p2.3 The New Role of Process Engineers and Engineering Firms.p2.4 Zero Discharge Methodology.p2.5 Making the Transition.p2.6 In the Full Zero Discharge Paradigm.p2.7 Separation-A Key Conversion Technology.p2.8 Constraints and challenges.p3 FUNDAMENTALS OF LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT.p3.1 What is Life Cycle Assessment?p3.2 Conducting LCA.p3.3 LCA and LCI Software Tools.p3.4 Evaluating the Life Cycle Environmental Performance of Two Disinfection Technologies.p3.5 Case Study: Comparison of LCA of Electricity from Biorenewables and Fossil Fuels.p4 ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS.p4.1 Health Risk Assessment.p4.2 Assessing the Risks of Some Common Pollutants.p4.3 Ecological Risk Assessment.p4.4 Risk Management.p4.5 Communicating Information on Environmental and Health Risks.p4.6 Environmental Information on the Internet.