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Process Intensification and Integration: an assessment

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A considerable number of studies have been performed for improving the efficiency of production processes, of energy supply and utilisation, while reducing emissions of greenhouse gases, volatile organic compounds and other pollutants. This has been a very important task which this journal has been targeting. As a response to these industrial and societal requirements considerable research effort has been targeted to process integration and process intensification. This article has made an attempt for a short assessment of those advanced engineering approaches.

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The financial support from the Hungarian State and the European Union under project TAMOP-4.2.2.A-11/1/KONV-2012-0072 Design and optimisation of modernisation and efficient operation of energy supply and utilisation systems using renewable energy sources and ICTs is acknowledged.

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    Jiří Jaromír Klemeš & Petar Sabev Varbanov

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Klemeš, J.J., Varbanov, P.S. Process Intensification and Integration: an assessment. Clean Techn Environ Policy 15, 417–422 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10098-013-0641-3

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