Process integration for energy saving and pollution reduction

摘要

Issues related to energy saving and pollution reduction are closely related. Their importance has increased in recent years and presents considerable academic and industrial challenges. They generally represent complex tasks of a considerable scale and comprehensive interactions. The methodology and concepts of Process Integration have been developing over last thirty years [1] and have been considerably expended to tackle these problems [2]. International conferences provide a good opportunity to review the state-of-the-art in this field. One of the most established and well known conference is PRES. The 13th Conference on "Process Integration, Modelling and Optimisation for Energy Saving and Pollution Reduction - PRES 2010", which was held in Prague in late August 2010 provided an excellent opportunity for dissemination of novel ideas, processes, procedures and energy saving policies.