Encyclopedia of Sustainable Technologies provides an authoritative assessment of the sustainable technologies that are currently available or in development. Sustainable technology includes the scientific understanding, development and application of a wide range of technologies and processes and their environmental implications.

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments and Dedications
• Preface
• Biographies
• Permission Acknowledgments
• Volume 1: Systems Analysis & Life Cycle Analysis
• Section Introduction: Systems Analysis
• Towards Understanding and Managing Sustainable Complex, Dynamic Environmental/Economic/Social Systems—The Evolving Role of the Natural Sciences
• Economics of Sustainable Technologies: Private and Public Costs and Benefits
• Environmental Management Systems—History and New Tendencies
• Participatory Modeling for Sustainability
• Measuring Sustainability Systems
• Metrics-Based Measurement: The Process Analysis Method
• Sustainable Supply Chain Design by the P-graph Framework: Methodology and Strategy
• A Life Cycle Approach to Measuring Sustainability
• Integration of Life Cycle Assessment Into Decision-Analytic Approaches for Sustainable Technologies
• An Optimization Approach to Sustainability
• Theoretical Framework for Network Modeling for Sustainability
• Including Nature in Engineering Decisions for Sustainability
• Process Integration for Sustainable Industries
• Implementing Corporate Social Responsibility
• The BASF Eco-Efficiency Toolbox: Holistic Evaluation of Sustainable Solutions
• A Metrics-Based Evaluation of Sustainable Manufacturing at Product and Process Levels
• Sustainability in Power Generation Systems
• Environmental Management From a Systems Perspective
• Incorporating Sustainability into Climate Change Adaptation
• The Evolution of Forestry: An Original Sustainable Systems Science
• Sustainability of Agricultural Management Options Under a Systems Perspective
• Incorporating Systems Thinking in the Engineering Design Curriculum: Path Forward for Sustainability Education
• Section Introduction: Life Cycle Analysis
• Overview of LCA—History, Concept, and Methodology
• Recent Initiatives on Standardization of LCA Methodology
• Life Cycle Environmental Impact Assessment
• Life Cycle Analysis—Strengths and Limitations of LCA
• The Role of LCA in Sustainable Development
• LCA in Relation to Risk Assessment
• Social Life-Cycle Assessment: An Introduction
• Life Cycle Inventory: An In-Depth Look at the Modeling, Data, and Available Tools
• Consequential Life Cycle Assessment: What, How, and Why?
• Weighting of Different Environmental Impact Categories
• Governmental Regulations, Guidance, and Standards Employing Life Cycle Analysis
• Water use LCA—Methodology
• Life-Cycle Analysis of Thermoelectric Power Generation in the United States
• Life-Cycle Analysis of Fuels and Vehicle Technologies
• Overview of LCAs as Applied to Remediation Projects
• Comparison of Attributional and Consequential Life-Cycle Assessments in Chemical Manufacturing
• Moving Up the Curve—Life-Cycle Assessment in Product Design at Eastman
• Applying Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) in Process Industry—The Chemours Experience
• Integrating LCA in Business Decisions—Perspectives From GE
• Development of a Sustainable and Economically Viable Process for Making Ethylene Oxide: A Case Study
• LCA for Green Chemical Synthesis—Terephthalic Acid
• Integrating the Role of Thermodynamics in LCA: A Case Study of Microalgal Biofuels
• The Oil-Climate Index: Assessing GHG Emission Impacts Across the Oil Value Chain
• Volume 2: Sustainable Built Environment & Sustainable Manufacturing
• Section Introduction: Sustainable Built Environment
• Contemporary Urbanization: Challenges, Future Trends, and Measuring Progress
• Sustainable Urban Design and Planning for Precincts
• Urban Ecology as an Interdisciplinary Area
• Ecological and Carbon Footprints—The Future for City Sustainability
• Sustainable Community Planning and Development
• Social Interactions and the Quality of Urban Public Space
• Human Health and a Sustainable Built Environment
• Planning and Design Scenarios for Liveable Cities
• Green Building Rating Systems
• Life-Cycle Energy Assessment in Buildings: Framework, Approaches, and Case Studies
• Building as Major Energy Consumer
• Building Energy Efficiency in Cold Climates
• Building Energy Efficiency in Hot and Humid Climate
• Thermal Performance of Building Envelops
• Behavior Change of Building Users and Energy Consumption
• Indoor Air Quality
• Indoor Environmental Quality: Thermal Comfort
• Indoor Environmental Quality: Lighting and Acoustics
• Indoor Environmental Quality—Ventilation
• Urban Air Pollution and Control
• Integration of Photovoltaics in Buildings
• Buildings Life Cycle Assessment
• Building Energy Management Systems
• Building Information Modeling and Building Performance Optimization
• Sustainable Construction Methods and Processes
• Adaptation of Buildings to Climate Change
• Sustainable Urban Facilities Management
• Disposal of Urban Wastes
• Sustainable Urban Transportation
• Urban Agriculture and Vertical Farming
• Sustainable Urban Drainage
• Section Introduction: Sustainable Manufacturing
• Smart Manufacturing
• Sustainability in Manufacturing and Supply Chains Through Distributed Manufacturing Systems and Networks
• Life-Cycle Analysis of Distributed Manufacturing
• Sensors to Control Processing and Improve Lifetime and Performance for Sustainable Manufacturing
• Trends in Raw Materials Usage in the Production of Infrastructure and Engineering Devices
• Minimum Quantity Lubrication for Sustainable Machining
• Overview of the Machining of Titanium Alloys
• Volume 3: Sustainable Energy Technologies & Sustainable Chemical Processes
• Section Introduction: Sustainable Energy Technologies
• Sustainability Concepts of Energy Generation Technologies
• Solar Photovoltaic Technologies: From Inception Toward the Most Reliable Energy Resource
• Fundamentals and Application of Solar Thermal Technologies
• Power Electronics for High-Power Wind Energy Conversion Systems
• Geothermal Power Technologies
• Hydropower Technologies
• Ocean Energy Technologies
• Progress in Nuclear Power Technology
• Biofuels From Microalgae
• Oil Crops for Energy
• Perennial Grasses for Energy
• Short-Rotation Woody Crops for Energy
• An Assessment of the Effects of Biomass Processing Methods on Power Generation
• Supercritical Water Gasification of Biomass
• Biomass Digestion
• Biomass Gasification
• Bio-Slurries From Lignocellulose
• Municipal Green Waste (MGW) Pyrolysis
• Microbial Fuel Cells
• Biodiesel Production and Technologies
• Bioethanol Production and Technologies
• Biobutanol Production Technologies
• Production of Hydrogen
• Hydrogen Fuel Cells
• Direct Carbon Fuel Cells
• Recent Developments on Solid Oxide Fuel Cells Using Methane and Other Related Hydrocarbons
• Direct Methanol Fuel Cells
• Gas Processing Technology-Treatment and Utilization
• Municipal Solid Waste to Energy Technology
• Fischer–Tropsch Synthesis
• Hydroprocessing of Coal Tar to Prepare Clean Fuel Oil
• Advanced Integrated Coal Gasification Combined Cycle: Current Status of Development
• Biomass–Coal Cocombustion
• Life Cycle Environmental Impacts of Carbon Capture, Storage, and Utilization
• CO2 Trapping in the Context of Geological Carbon Sequestration
• Carbon Sequestration by Microalgae: A Green Approach for Climate Change Mitigation
• Section Introduction: Sustainable Chemical Processes
• Introduction to Green and Sustainable Chemistry
• Introduction to Sustainable and Green Engineering: General Principles and Targets
• Process Intensification
• Input–Output Modeling Approach to Sustainable Systems Engineering
• Sustainable Reactor Design
• Sustainable Reactors for Biomass Conversion Using Pyrolysis and Fermentation
• Sustainable Separations
• Reactive Separations
• Chemicals From Lignin
• Chemicals Derived From Biomass Thermolysis and Gasification
• Lignocellulosic Biomass Valorization: Production of Ethanol
• Direct Conversion of Syngas to Chemicals Using Heterogeneous Catalysts
• Green/Alternative Solvents
• Catalysis for a Sustainable Chemicals Production, Environment, and the Future
• Sustainable Organocatalysis
• Ionic Liquids for Sustainable Chemical Processes
• Sustainable Processes With Supercritical Fluids
• Biocatalysis
• Sustainability in the Pharmaceuticals and Fine Chemicals Industry
• Volume 4: Sustainable Water & Energy Systems
• Section Introduction: Sustainable Water
• Water Pollution Control Technologies
• Industrial Wastewater Treatment
• Wastewater Treatment and Reuse—The Future Source of Water Supply
• Wastewater Reuse
• Recycling and Reuse of Rainwater and Stormwater
• Grey Water
• Sustainable Water Management—A Strategy for Maintaining Future Water Resources
• Information Systems for Real-Time Water Quality Monitoring
• Selection of Municipal Drinking Water Treatment Approach using Multiple Criteria
• Role of Technology in Ocean Acidification: Monitoring, Water-Quality Impairments, CO2 Mitigation, and Machine Learning
• Salinity in the Ocean
• Eutrophication of Freshwater and Coastal Ecosystems
• Water Footprint: State of the Art: What, Why, and How?
• Section Introduction: Energy Systems
• Supply Planning and Demand Management of Hybrid Power Systems Using Process Integration
• Grid Synchronization for Distributed Generations
• Smart Grid
• Isolated Hybrid Energy Systems for Remote Locations
• Reliability of Renewable Power Systems
• Carbon Emissions Pinch Analysis for Sustainable Energy Planning
• Self-Excited Induction Generator for Renewable Applications
• Bioenergy Systems for Sustainable Energy Access
• Regional Biomass Supply Chains
• Bioenergy for Rural Development
• Clean Fuels for Cooking in Developing Countries
• Integrated Biorefineries
• Gasification Technologies
• IGCC With Carbon Capture and Storage
• Solar Radiation for Energy Applications
• Solar Cogeneration/Trigeneration
• Solar Thermal Process Heat
• Solar Gas Turbine Systems
• Piezoelectric Energy Systems
• Energy and Water Conservation in Batch Processes
• Supercritical Carbon Dioxide-Based Power Cycles
• Nanofluids and Applications to Energy Systems
• Recent Developments in Liquid Desiccant-Based Cooling Systems
• Microbial Electrosynthesis
• Battery Technologies for Energy Storage
• Demand Side Management