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Sustainable Pollution Prevention Through Mass Integration

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Tools and Methods for Pollution Prevention

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Pollution prevention is one of the key objectives of a processing facility. Notwithstanding its importance, it must be reconciled with other process objectives such as cost effectiveness, quality assurance, yield enhancement, debottlenecking, safety, and energy conservation. For many years, environmental issues of manufacturing operations have been conveniently isolated and addressed with little or no interaction with the other process objectives. The result has been a widespread adoption of pollution control, strategies that focus primarily on end-of-pipe treatment, in which chemical, biological, and physical processes are applied to terminal,streams to reduce toxicity or magnitude of environmentally undesirable compounds. This approach has enabled engineers to avoid in-plant changes and has, therefore, allowed the development of pollution-control technologies as stand-alone devices that can be used to treat the symptoms without much regard to the root causes within the core processing operations. The result has been in the form of solutions that worked but nonetheless had poor economic indicators. This situation has led to the common misconception that the solution to environmental problems of the process is an economic burden and that objectives of cost effectiveness and benign manufacturing cannot be reconciled.

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El-Halwagi, M.M. (1999). Sustainable Pollution Prevention Through Mass Integration. In: Sikdar, S.K., Diwekar, U. (eds) Tools and Methods for Pollution Prevention. NATO Science Series, vol 62. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4445-2_16

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