Greening the Industrial Facility: Perspectives, Approaches, and Tools

ISBN-13: 9781441937179 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 618 str.

Thomas Graedel;Jennifer Howard-Grenville

Opis

This textbook and reference fills a critical gap in literature on the comprehensive environmental impacts of industrial organizations. Nineteen chapters examine individual industrial sectors inherent "potential to pollute." The text goes on to analyze new technologies and practices for transforming environmentally degrading effects of industry, and shows how managers can navigate these changes and move their organizations towards long-term environmental sustainability.

Spis treści

to Industry and Environmental Issues.- Technology and the Environment.- Key Topics and Approaches in Greening the Industrial Facility.- Approaches and Tools for Industrial Environmental Management.- The Starting Point.- The Next Step.- Facility Assessment from the Life-Cycle Perspective.- Sustainability-Related Performance.- Sustainability Assessments.- Industrial Sector Analysis.- Fossil Fuel Extraction and Processing.- Power Generation.- Metal Ore Extraction and Processing.- Inorganic Minerals and Chemicals.- Petrochemicals.- Agriculture.- Food Processing.- Textiles and Leathers.- Sand and Glass.- Fabricated Metal Products.- Fabricated Plastic Products.- Electronics.- Synthetic Organic Chemicals.- Assembled Products.- Forest Products and Printing.- Packaging and Shipping.- Industrial, Residential, and Infrastructure Construction.- The Remanufacturing and Recycling Industry.- Advanced Materials, Processes, and Products.- The Future of Industry and Environmental Issues.- The Industries of 2050.- Achieving Industrial Change.

Blurb

This book fills a critical gap as a textbook and reference book on the comprehensive environmental impacts of industrial organizations. It is intended for both upper-level undergraduate and beginning graduate students in environmental studies or engineering, and, more broadly, for practicing managers and engineers seeking to improve industrial processes. Nineteen chapters, each focusing on an industrial sector, from resource extraction through fabrication and manufacturing to recycling, evaluate the sector’s inherent "potential to pollute" by providing an overview of typical sector operations and their environmental implications. Beyond outlining and providing frameworks for assessing industrial facilities’ contemporary interactions with the environment (energy and water use, material throughput and hazard, and pollution potential), the book provides forward-looking analyses concerning how new technologies and practices can transform environmentally degrading effects of industry. It also addresses how managers can navigate these changes and move their industrial organizations towards environmental sustainability over the long term. The pedagogical approach emphasizes facility visits and subsequent reports that make use of the book’s analytical tools.

Topics in the book include the following:
-Key topics in greening the industrial facility
-Regulatory compliance
-Pollution prevention
-Life-cycle assessment of products, processes, and facilities
-Sustainability assessments
-Industrial sector analysis (19 sector-specific chapters from Agriculture to Textiles)
-The future of industry and environmental issues.