Toward Zero Discharge

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. 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. 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.