In addition to high economic efficiency, Chemical Process Industries are confronted
today with the challenge of sustainable development: the exploitation of the natural
resources by the present society must not compromise the ability of future generations
to meet their own needs. Sustainable development implies a profound change in
developing and designing chemical processes, and implicitly in the education of
designers. As an attempt to answer this challenge, the book deals with the design of
innovative chemical processes by means of systematic methods and computer
simulation techniques.