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Industrial Water Reuse and Wastewater Minimization

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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".

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.