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"Green Engineering: Environmentally Conscious Design of Chemical Processes," a text book

EPA's green engineering textbook "Green Engineering: Environmentally Conscious Design of Chemical Processes" is a college senior-to-graduate-level engineering textbook.  EPA's Green Engineering Program offers chapter summaries, example problems, and sample homework problems.  

  • Green Engineering: Environmentally Conscious Design of Chemical Processes (pdf) (1.31 MB)
  • Table of Contents (pdf) (172.68 KB)
  • Chapter 1. An Introduction to Environmental Issues (pdf) (174.05 KB)
  • Chapter 2. Risk Concepts (pdf) (150.89 KB)
  • Chapter 3. Environmental Law and Regulations: From End-of-Pipe to Pollution Prevention (pdf) (334.98 KB)
  • Chapter 4. The Roles and Responsibilities of Chemical Engineers (pdf) (318.84 KB)
  • Chapter 5. Evaluating Environmental Fate: Approaches Based on Chemical Structure (pdf) (203.34 KB)
  • Chapter 6. Evaluating Exposures (pdf) (147.26 KB)
  • Chapter 7. Green Chemistry (pdf) (162.45 KB)
  • Chapter 8. Evaluating Environmental Performance During Process Synthesis (pdf) (159.95 KB)
  • Chapter 9. Unit Operations and Pollution Prevention (pdf) (180.07 KB)
  • Chapter 10. Flowsheet Analysis for Pollution Prevention (pdf) (210.49 KB)
  • Chapter 11. Evaluating the Environmental Performance of a Flowsheet (pdf) (148.41 KB)
  • Chapter 12. Environmental Cost Accounting (pdf) (153.11 KB)
  • Chapter 13. Life-Cycle Concepts, Product Stewardship and Green Engineering (pdf) (157.28 KB)
  • Chapter 14. Industrial Ecology (pdf) (300.2 KB)

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Last updated on November 13, 2024
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