ABSTRACT
Process intensification (PI) focuses on improvements in manufacturing and processing by remodeling existing operation so they are more precise and efficient. PI often involves combining separate unit operations into a single piece of equipment, resulting in a more efficient, cleaner, and economical processes. At the detailed level, PI technologies often improve mass and heat transfer, reaction kinetics, yields, and selectivity. These improvements reduce device numbers and/or sizes, facility footprints, process complexity, and costs and risks in industrial facilities.
This chapter provides an understanding of and ability to apply significant techniques for process intensification, describes and illustrates process intensification in the industrial and energy sectors, and explains the relation of process intensification and sustainability. Particular attention is paid to process intensification fundamentals and details, intensification methods and modeling, intensification in units and plants, biochemical processes and bioproducts, chemical processes. Related topics are also described, including green engineering processes, energy technology and management, and process safety. Finally, the relation between process intensification and sustainable engineering is discussed, bringing together the many topics covered in this chapter and highlighting the importance of process intensification to sustainable engineering, sustainable development and sustainability.
