Advanced Waste Valorization for Circular Economy

Advanced Waste Valorization for Circular Economy: Chemical Process Design and Simulation serves as an essential guide for chemical process design, simulation, optimization, and sustainability assessment within waste volarization. This book equips readers with updated knowledge on circular economy principles applied to waste valorization. It covers chemical process design, simulation, optimization, sustainability assessment, decision-making processes, Industry 4.0 technology applications, and circular supply chain design. Additionally, it delves into advanced waste valorization technologies for various waste types, including industrial, municipal, medical, plastic, agricultural, and food waste. There is an increasing demand for waste valorization underscores the need for advanced resources on waste management and eco-friendly valorization. Advanced Waste Valorization for Circular Economy: Chemical Process Design and Simulation compiles up-to-date resources for industry professionals, researchers, academics, and students to understand circular process design and its real-life implementation, contributing to a more sustainable and circular future. This book includes learning objectives, case studies, step-by-step methodologies and review exercises in each chapter to help students and researchers alike deepen and test their understanding of crucial aspects of sustainable waste valorization. This book is suitable for a very broad audience, including chemical engineering professionals such as professors, researchers, chemical engineers, and industry experts, particularly those engaged in process systems engineering, intelligent manufacturing, intelligent process control, advanced waste management, and renewable energy. This book will also be a valuable resource for environmental and energy consultants specializing in promoting sustainable development through advanced waste valorization. Additionally, administrators responsible for waste management in various capacities and undergraduate/graduate students majoring in energy and environmental engineering, chemical engineering, or specializing in renewable energy engineering will find this book valuable as a textbook.

• Provides a comprehensive framework for advanced waste valorization technologies in the circular economy reviewing common waste valorization technologies, principles, and basic working flow, methods, and algorithms for sustainable technique design, simulation, and optimization
• Includes ecision-making recommendations tailored to different situations case studies and discussion section optimization and development directions for advanced waste valorization technologies in the future
• Includes learning objective sections and review exercises throughout the book to assist students and academics with testing their knowledge of novel concepts
• Provides step-by-step methodologies and frameworks for process analysis and evaluation of waste valorization technologies, covering feasibility analysis, techno-economic analysis, energy and material flow analysis, carbon footprint analysis, and environmental impact assessment