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Preface

his book describes and analyzes an amalgamation of two
effective ways to considerably improve the efficiency and
Tsustainability of processing industries: Process Integration
and optimization. It is the result of collaborative efforts by two
groups: researchers at the Centre for Process Integration, the
University of Manchester, UK (a renowned center of excellence in
this field), and the Faculty of Information Technology at the
University of Pannonia, Hungary, as represented by the Centre for
Process Integration and Intensification (CPI ) and the Centre for
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Advanced Process Optimization. The University of Pannonia centers
are highly regarded for their achievements in optimization, and the
P-graph and S-graph approaches to process optimization originated
at this university.
The book should provide support for graduate and postgraduate
students worldwide as well as for Continuing Professional
Development (CPD) courses and for practitioners from various fields
of the processing industry. Its chapters analyze a number of problems
of practical significance and also suggest various options for solving
them to the benefit of modern society. The book provides a wealth of
material for postgraduate teaching and further professional training.
It is supported by the expertise stemming from the authors’ work as
well as by a pool of case studies of varying complexity that have been
collected over the years. This wide-ranging material presented here
has been selected and refined over years of postgraduate teaching,
further CPD courses, and training for the industry. It includes eight
industry-based demonstration case studies and nine testing examples
with the solutions developed. An unbiased evaluation and overview
of the software tools available for learning, teaching, and industrial
applications are also included. Text discussions are complemented
by many figures to clarify details and enhance understanding. The
book contains 14 chapters and a comprehensive bibliography.
Chapter 1 is devoted to introducing and defining the field, and it
also includes a basic assessment of energy efficiency. It starts with
screening and scoping, which include auditing, benchmarking, and
recommendations for good housekeeping. Next it describes an
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