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Design of Water Recovery System with Process Integration

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Wastewater Reuse and Current Challenges

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Water is commonly used in the process industries as raw material and utility systems as well as for washing operations. In recent years, stricter environmental regulations and water scarcity issues have led to the growing need for better water management. Concurrently, the development of various process integration tools for resource conservation has become very established in recent years. This chapter presents one of the important process integration tools, known as water pinch analysis, for the design of a water recovery system. A water recovery case study of a steel plant is used for illustration.

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Abbreviations

MCA:

Material cascade analysis

NNA:

Nearest neighbour algorithm

RCN:

Resource conservation network

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  1. Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Centre of Excellence for Green Technologies (CEGT), University of Nottingham Malaysia, Broga Road, 43500, Semenyih, Selangor, Malaysia

    Dominic C. Y. Foo

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  1. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus

    Despo Fatta-Kassinos

  2. Department of Biomedical, Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

    Dionysios D. Dionysiou

  3. Institute of Sustainable and Environmental Chemistry, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Lüneburg, Niedersachsen, Germany

    Klaus Kümmerer

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Foo, D.C.Y. (2014). Design of Water Recovery System with Process Integration. In: Fatta-Kassinos, D., Dionysiou, D., Kümmerer, K. (eds) Wastewater Reuse and Current Challenges . The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, vol 44. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/698_2014_322

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