Industrial Water Reuse and Wastewater Minimization [Hardcover]

James Mann (Author), Y.A. Liu (Author)

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Publication Date: July 6, 1999 | ISBN-10: 0071348557 | ISBN-13: 978-0071348553 | Edition: 1

Money-saving water strategies for industry. In the U.S. alone, process industries, petrochemicals, pulp and paper, metals and minerals, and many others ù will generate over 120 million tons of wastewater by the year 2000. Industrial Water Reuse and Wastewater Minimization, by James G. Mann and Y.A. Liu, describes water reuse and wastewater minimization principles and practices that can be used worldwide. Relatively easy to use and surprisingly inexpensive, the methods youÆll find in this important guide - particularly water-pinch technology ù are not only ecologically sound, but significantly lower manufacturing costs. Concepts are illustrated with abundant charts, tables, and real-life case studies. This resource includes a CD-ROM at no additional cost. Its Water/Target software generates freshwater use/wastewater generation targets, and suggests ways to reach them....lets you isolate bottlenecks limiting water reuse and find new reuse opportunities - all without the expense of detailed engineering designs.

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• Hardcover: 450 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional; 1 edition (July 6, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0071348557
• ISBN-13: 978-0071348553
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.2 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Review comments by two top process engineering experts:, January 26, 2000

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This review is from: Industrial Water Reuse and Wastewater Minimization (Hardcover)

Please see the latest (January, 2000) review comments by the following two industrial practitioners:

(1)George E. Keller, senior corporate research fellow (retired), Union Carbide Corporation, member of the National Academy of Engineering.

(2)Paul F. Bryan, Research Scientist (retired), Union Carbide Corporation; Station Director of the MIT Chemical Engineering Practice School, Mt. Vernon.

George E. Keller and Paul. F. Bryan,"Process Engineering Moving in New Directions", Chemical Engineering Progress, pp. 41-50, January issue (2000).

They wrote:

"An extremely important aspect of process design for overall waste minimization is water reuse and wastewater minimization. A new book, Mann and Liu (1999),covers this area very well, and gives many industrial examples. It includes recent work on the water-pinch technology (which is akin to heat-exchanger network technology) for determining the absolute minimum amount of fresh-water makeup to a process. Application of the methods described in this book potentially can cut both the overall investment and operating cost of a process, as well as reduce fresh-water usage. In the future, the approach described here should become a key element in any comprehensive process-design effort".

3.0 out of 5 stars Great for learning, but filled with countless errors, June 22, 2007

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This review is from: Industrial Water Reuse and Wastewater Minimization (Hardcover)

Hard review to write. On the one hand, the book is well written and does a good job of explaining the process of water pinch. On the other hand, it is filled with countless errors (especially lots of wrong numbers in figures, tables and text, even some completely wrongly drawn figures). If you are reading the text and understanding all they are saying the errors are not such a problem, but if you were stuggling with the concepts, I expect the mistakes would cause some serious frustration. But, from what I can tell its the only water pinch book on the market, so beggers can't be choosers.