Green Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
About the Book Series
Designed to meet sustainability and environmental challenges facing researchers, professionals, and students of the chemical discipline, this series includes textbooks and references that focus on the science and technology of reducing adverse impacts of chemicals and processes on the environment. The series details the development of alternative sustainable technologies that will minimize hazards and maximize process efficiency. It includes but is not limited to topics such as green separation technologies, mitigation of harmful substances, carbon dioxide sequestration, greenhouse chemicals, and global warming issues.
Industrial Decarbonization: Materials, Methods, and Developments
1st Edition
Edited
By Qingxu (Bill) Jin, Xue (Ida) Chen, Fan Shi, Dushyant Shekhawat
October 15, 2025
Industrial Decarbonization: Materials, Methods, and Developments offers a timely and in-depth exploration of the technologies and strategies reshaping high-emission industries in the global push toward carbon neutrality. As sectors such as chemicals, steel, cement, concrete, asphalt, and ...
Valorisation of Food Waste: Process and Product Design
1st Edition
Edited
By Chien Hwa Chong
September 15, 2025
This book explores innovative strategies for repurposing food waste, with a strong focus on process and product design. It highlights diverse food waste sources, including expiring materials and often overlooked resources, offering a comprehensive evaluation of technologies, methods, and ...
Efficiency and Sustainability in the Energy and Chemical Industries: Scientific Principles and Case Studies
3rd Edition
By Krishnan Sankaranarayanan
May 26, 2025
Using classic thermodynamic principles as the point of departure, this new edition of a popular resource supplies the understanding and tools required to measure process ef ciency and sustainability with much improved accuracy. Exploring the driving forces in the chemical and power industries, ...
Process Integration for Resource Conservation
2nd Edition
By Dominic C.Y. Foo
January 31, 2025
To achieve environmental sustainability in industrial plants, resource conservation activities such as material recovery have begun incorporating process integration techniques for reusing and recycling water, utility gases, solvents, and solid waste. Process Integration for Resource Conservation ...
Hydrogen Safety: Production, Transport, Storage, Use, and the Environment
2nd Edition
By Fotis Rigas
September 20, 2024
While hydrogen is of vital and growing importance in many industrial sectors, this volatile substance poses unique challenges, including easy leakage, low ignition energy, a wide range of combustible fuel– air mixtures, buoyancy, and its ability to embrittle metals that are required to ensure safe ...
Microplastics Pollution and Worldwide Policies on Plastic Use
1st Edition
By Tin Sin Lee, Soo Tueen Bee
June 04, 2024
Microplastics Pollution and Worldwide Policies on Plastic Use discusses microplastic pollution and global policies developed to tackle the problem. It details the mechanisms of microplastics occurrence, sources, and impacts. It then offers a comprehensive overview of the various policies ...
Optimization for Energy Systems and Supply Chains: Fundamentals and Applications
1st Edition
Edited
By Viknesh Andiappan, Denny K S Ng, Santanu Bandyopadhyay
December 08, 2022
To curb the impacts of rising CO2 emissions, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report states that a net zero target needs to be achieved by the year 2055. Experts argue that this is a critical time to make important and accurate decisions. Thus, it is essential to have the right tools ...
Handbook of Alternative Fuel Technologies
2nd Edition
Edited
By Sunggyu Lee, James G. Speight, Sudarshan K. Loyalka
September 18, 2018
While strides are being made in the research and development of environmentally acceptable and more sustainable alternative fuels—including efforts to reduce emissions of air pollutants associated with combustion processes from electric power generation and vehicular transportation—fossil fuel ...
Nuclear Hydrogen Production Handbook
1st Edition
Edited
By Xing L. Yan, Ryutaro Hino
April 25, 2018
Written by two leading researchers from the world-renowned Japan Atomic Energy Agency, the Nuclear Hydrogen Production Handbook is an unrivalled overview of current and future prospects for the effective production of hydrogen via nuclear energy. Combining information from scholarly analyses, ...
Resource Recovery to Approach Zero Municipal Waste
1st Edition
Edited
By Mohammad J. Taherzadeh, Tobias Richards
October 18, 2017
Current development results in a linear flow from raw material to waste, which cannot be sustainable in the long term. Plus, a global population of 7 billion people means that there are 7 billion waste producers in the world. At present, dumping and landfilling are the primary practices for getting...
Materials in Biology and Medicine
1st Edition
Edited
By Sunggyu Lee, David Henthorn
October 12, 2017
While the interdisciplinary field of materials science and engineering is relatively new, remarkable developments in materials have emerged for biological and medical applications, from biocompatible polymers in medical devices to the use of carbon nanotubes as drug delivery vehicles. With ...
The Water-Food-Energy Nexus: Processes, Technologies, and Challenges
1st Edition
Edited
By I. M. Mujtaba, R. Srinivasan, N. O. Elbashir
September 07, 2017
Exponential growth of the worldwide population requires increasing amounts of water, food, and energy. However, as the quantity of available fresh water and energy sources directly affecting cost of food production and transportation diminishes, technological solutions are necessary to secure ...