Industrial Environmental Management

Industrial Environmental Management

by Tapas K. Das
Released February 2020
Publisher(s): Wiley
ISBN: 9781119591580

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Book description

Provides aspiring engineers with pertinent information and technological methodologies on how best to manage industry's modern-day environment concerns

This book explains why industrial environmental management is important to human environmental interactions and describes what the physical, economic, social, and technological constraints to achieving the goal of a sustainable environment are. It emphasizes recent progress in life-cycle sustainable design, applying green engineering principles and the concept of Zero Effect Zero Defect to minimize wastes and discharges from various manufacturing facilities. Its goal is to educate engineers on how to obtain an optimum balance between environmental protections, while allowing humans to maintain an acceptable quality of life.  

Industrial Environmental Management: Engineering, Science, and Policy covers topics such as industrial wastes, life cycle sustainable design, lean manufacturing, international environmental regulations, and the assessment and management of health and environmental risks. The book also looks at the economics of manufacturing pollution prevention; how eco-industrial parks and process intensification will help minimize waste; and the application of green manufacturing principles in order to minimize wastes and discharges from manufacturing facilities.

  • Provides end-of-chapter questions along with a solutions manual for adopting professors
  • Covers a wide range of interdisciplinary areas that makes it suitable for different branches of engineering such as wastewater management and treatment; pollutant sampling; health risk assessment; waste minimization; lean manufacturing; and regulatory information
  • Shows how industrial environmental management is connected to areas like sustainable engineering, sustainable manufacturing, social policy, and more
  • Contains theory, applications, and real-world problems along with their solutions
  • Details waste recovery systems 

Industrial Environmental Management: Engineering, Science, and Policy is an ideal textbook for junior and senior level students in multidisciplinary engineering fields such as chemical, civil, environmental, and petroleum engineering. It will appeal to practicing engineers seeking information about sustainable design principles and methodology.   

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. About the Author
  3. Preface
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. About the Companion Website
  6. 1 Why Industrial Environmental Management?
    1. 1.1 Introduction
    2. 1.2 Environmental Management in Industries
    3. 1.3 Waste as Pollution
    4. 1.4 Defining Pollution Prevention
    5. 1.5 The ZDZE Paradigm
    6. 1.6 Zero Discharge Industries
    7. 1.7 Sustainability, Industrial Ecology, and Zero Discharge (Emissions)
    8. 1.8 Why Zero Discharge Is Critical to Sustainability
    9. 1.9 The New Role of Process Engineers and Engineering Firms
    10. 1.10 Zero Discharge (Emissions) Methodology
    11. 1.11 Making the Transition
    12. 1.12 Constraints and Challenges
    13. 1.13 The Structure of the Book
    14. Problems
    15. References
  7. 2 Genesis of Environmental Problem Worldwide
    1. 2.1 Introduction
    2. 2.2 Genesis of the Environmental Problem
    3. 2.3 Causes of Pollution and Environmental Degradation
    4. 2.4 Industrialization and Urbanization in the United States
    5. 2.5 Important Technological Developments
    6. 2.6 Industrial Disasters
    7. 2.7 Environmental Law
    8. 2.8 Pollution Control Laws
    9. 2.9 Resource Sustainability
    10. 2.10 Polluter Pays Principle
    11. 2.11 Theory/Environmental Law Debate
    12. 2.12 International Law
    13. 2.13 The Legal and Regulatory Framework for Environmental Protection in India
    14. 2.14 United States Environmental Law
    15. 2.15 ISO 9000 and 14000
    16. 2.16 Current Environmental Regulatory Development in the United States: From End‐of‐Pipe Laws and Regulations to Pollution Prevention
    17. 2.17 Greenhouse Gases
    18. Examples (Multiple Choice)
    19. Problems
    20. References
  8. 3 Industrial Pollution Sources, Its Characterization, Estimation, and Treatment
    1. 3.1 Introduction
    2. 3.2 Wastewater Sources
    3. 3.3 Wastewater Characteristics
    4. 3.4 Chemical Characteristics
    5. 3.5 Industrial Wastewater Variation
    6. 3.6 Industrial Wastestream Variables
    7. 3.7 Concentration vs. Mass of the Pollution
    8. 3.8 Industrial Wastewater Treatment
    9. 3.9 Air Quality
    10. 3.10 The Ideal Gas Law and Concentration Measurements in Gases
    11. 3.11 Other Applications of the Ideal Gas Law
    12. 3.12 Gas Flow Measurement
    13. 3.13 Flow at Standard Temperature and Pressure
    14. 3.14 Gas Flowrate Conversion from SCFM to ACFM
    15. 3.15 Corrections for Percent O2
    16. 3.16 Boiler Flue Gas Concentrations Are Usually Corrected to 3% Oxygen
    17. 3.17 Air‐to‐Fuel Ratio and Stoichiometric Ratio
    18. 3.18 Material Balances and Energy Balances
    19. 3.19 Wastes in the United States
    20. 3.20 Hazardous Waste
    21. 3.21 Incineration, Destruction, and WtE
    22. 3.22 Hazardous Waste Landfill (Sequestering, Isolation, etc.)
    23. 3.23 Radioactive Waste
    24. 3.24 Coal
    25. 3.25 Low‐Level Waste
    26. 3.26 Nuclear Waste Management
    27. Problems
    28. References
  9. 4 Industrial Wastewater, Air Pollution, and Solid and Hazardous Wastes
    1. 4.1 Introduction
    2. 4.2 Industrial Process Water
    3. 4.3 Common Elements, Radicals, and Chemicals in Water Analysis
    4. 4.4 Purposes and Objectives for Inspecting and Sampling
    5. 4.5 Sampling and QA/QC Plan
    6. 4.6 Whole Effluent Toxicity Testing
    7. 4.7 Flow Measurements
    8. 4.8 The Point of Compliance with the Water Quality Standards
    9. 4.9 Water Quality Modeling
    10. 4.10 Example NPDES Permits (for Refinery and Aluminum Smelter are shown in Section D.1)
    11. 4.11 Air Pollution Perspective
    12. 4.12 Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) Permitting Process
    13. 4.13 An Overall Permitting Process
    14. 4.14 Best Available Control Technology
    15. 4.15 Atmospheric Dispersion Modeling
    16. 4.16 Dispersion Models: Indoor Concentrations
    17. 4.17 State Implementation Plan
    18. 4.18 Compliance
    19. 4.19 CAA Enforcement Provisions
    20. 4.20 Industrial Solid Wastes and Its Management
    21. 4.21 Hazardous Waste Landfill (Sequestering, Isolation, etc.)
    22. 4.22 Industrial Waste Generation Rates
    23. 4.23 Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act and Superfund
    24. 4.24 Industrial Waste Management in India: Shifting Gears
    25. Problems
    26. References
  10. 5 Assessment and Management of Health and Environmental Risks
    1. 5.1 Health Risk Assessment
    2. 5.2 Assessing the Risks of Some Common Pollutants
    3. 5.3 Ecological Risk Assessment
    4. 5.4 Risk Management
    5. 5.5 Communicating Information on Environmental and Health Risks
    6. 5.6 Environmental Information Access on the Internet
    7. 5.7 Health and Occupational Safety
    8. 5.8 Industrial Process Safety System Guidelines
    9. 5.9 Industrial Hygiene
    10. 5.10 Atmospheric Hazards
    11. 5.11 Safety Equipment
    12. 5.12 Communication Devices
    13. 5.13 Noise
    14. 5.14 Radiation
    15. 5.15 Effects of Global Warming: Climate Change – The World's Health
    16. 5.16 Key Vulnerabilities
    17. 5.17 Energy Sector
    18. Problems
    19. References
  11. 6 Industrial Process Pollution Prevention
    1. 6.1 Industrial Waste
    2. 6.2 What Is Life Cycle Assessment?
    3. 6.3 LCA and LCI Software Tools
    4. 6.4 Evaluating the Life Cycle Environmental Performance of Chemical‐, Mechanical‐, and Bio‐Pulping Processes
    5. 6.5 Evaluating the Life Cycle Environmental Performance of Two Disinfection Technologies
    6. 6.6 Case Study: LCA Comparisons of Electricity from Biorenewables and Fossil Fuels
    7. 6.7 Best Available Control Technology (for Environmental Remediation)
    8. 6.8 BACT: Applications to Gas Turbine Power Plants
    9. Problems
    10. References
  12. 7 Economics of Manufacturing Pollution Prevention
    1. 7.1 Introduction
    2. 7.2 Economic Evaluation of Pollution Prevention
    3. 7.3 Cost Estimates
    4. 7.4 Economic Criteria for Technology Comparisons
    5. 7.5 Calculating CF
    6. 7.6 From Pollution Control to Profitable Pollution Prevention
    7. 7.7 Resource Recovery and Reuse
    8. 7.8 Profitable Pollution Prevention in the Metal‐Finishing Industry
    9. 7.9 Use of Treated Municipal Wastewater as Power Plant Cooling System Makeup Water: Tertiary Treatment vs. Expanded Chemical Regimen for Recirculating Water Quality Management
    10. 7.10 Consequences of Dirty Air: Costs–Benefits
    11. 7.11 Some On‐Going Pollution Prevention Technologies
    12. 7.12 Cost Indices and Estimating Cost of Equipment
    13. 7.13 Waste‐to‐Energy
    14. 7.14 Sustainable Economy and the Earth
    15. Problems
    16. References
  13. 8 Lean Manufacturing
    1. 8.1 Introduction
    2. 8.2 Engineering Data Summary and Presentation
    3. 8.3 Time Series: Process over Time
    4. 8.4 Process Capability
    5. 8.5 Lean Manufacturing
    6. 8.6 Types of Waste
    7. 8.7 Six Sigma in Industry
    8. 8.8 Lean Implementation Develops from TPS
    9. 8.9 Manufacturing System Characteristics: Process Planning Basics
    10. 8.10 Design for Life Cycle
    11. 8.11 Sustainable Design and Environmentally Conscious Design and Manufacturing
    12. 8.12 Lean Six Sigma
    13. 8.13 Six Sigma and Lean Manufacturing
    14. 8.14 Cost vs. Quality Analysis
    15. 8.15 Assessing and Reducing Risk in Design: Cost to Manufacturer
    16. 8.16 The Heart and Soul of the Toyota Way: Lean Processes
    17. 8.17 Essential Roles of Industrial Environmental Managers
    18. 8.18 Goals of IEMs
    19. 8.19 Environmental Compliance and Compliance Assurances
    20. 8.20 Waste Reduction
    21. Problems
    22. References
  14. 9 Industrial Waste Minimization Methodology
    1. 9.1 Introduction
    2. 9.2 Industrial Ecology
    3. 9.3 Water–Energy Nexus
    4. 9.4 CE Indicators in Relation to Eco‐Innovation
    5. 9.5 Process Intensification and Integration Potential in Manufacturing
    6. 9.6 Manufacturing Process Integration
    7. 9.7 New Sustainable Chemicals and Energy from Black Liquor Gasification Using Process Integration and Intensification
    8. 9.8 Chemical Recovery and Power/Steam Cogeneration at Pulp and Paper Mills
    9. 9.9 Conclusions
    10. Problems
    11. References
  15. 10 Quality Industrial Environmental Management
    1. 10.1 Introduction: Industry and the Global Environmental Issues
    2. 10.2 Integrating LCA in Sustainable Product Design and Development
    3. 10.3 Green Chemistry: The Twelve Principles of Green Chemistry
    4. 10.4 The Hannover Principles
    5. 10.5 Sustainable Industries and Business
    6. 10.6 Six Essential Characteristics
    7. 10.7 Social Services
    8. 10.8 Environmental Regulatory Law: Command and Control Market Based, and Reflexive
    9. 10.9 Business Ethics
    10. 10.10 International Issues
    11. 10.11 Ethical Sustainability
    12. 10.12 Social Sustainability
    13. 10.13 Conclusions
    14. 10.14 Strategy for Corporate Sustainability
    15. Problems
    16. References
  16. Appendix A: Conversion Factors
  17. Appendix B: International Environmental Law
    1. Reference
  18. Appendix C: Air Pollutant Emission Factors
    1. Reference
  19. Appendix D: Frequently Asked Questions and Answers
    1. D.1 Example Chain‐of‐Custody form for Use by POTWs
    2. D.2 Water Quality Models
    3. D.3 Frequently Asked Questions
    4. D.4 Answers to Frequently Asked Questions
    5. D.5 Dispersion Model Development and Application
    6. D.6 Hazardous Waste Manifest
    7. References
  20. Appendix E: Industrial Hygiene Outlines
    1. Reference
  21. Appendix F: Environmental Cost‐Benefit
  22. Appendix G: Resource Recovery
    1. G.1 Description of the Facility
  23. Appendix H: The Hannover Principles
    1. Reference
  24. Appendix I: Environmental Goals and Business Goals Are Not Two Distinct Goal Sets
  25. Appendix J: Sample Codes of Ethics and Guidelines
    1. J.1 National Society of Professional Engineers
    2. Reference
  26. Index
  27. End User License Agreement

Product information

  • Title: Industrial Environmental Management
  • Author(s): Tapas K. Das
  • Release date: February 2020
  • Publisher(s): Wiley
  • ISBN: 9781119591580