EPA's green engineering textbook "Green Engineering: Environmentally Conscious Design of Chemical Processes" is a college senior-to-graduate-level engineering textbook. EPA's Green Engineering Program offers chapter summaries, example problems, and sample homework problems.
You may need a PDF reader to view some of the files on this page. See EPA’s About PDF page to learn more.- Green Engineering: Environmentally Conscious Design of Chemical Processes (PDF)(62 pp, 1 MB)
- Table of Contents (PDF)(1 pg, 177 K)
- Chapter 1. An Introduction to Environmental Issues (PDF)(2 pp, 178 K)
- Chapter 2. Risk Concepts (PDF)(3 pp, 155 K)
- Chapter 3. Environmental Law and Regulations: From End-of-Pipe to Pollution Prevention (PDF)(7 pp, 343 K)
- Chapter 4. The Roles and Responsibilities of Chemical Engineers (PDF)(3 pp, 326 K)
- Chapter 5. Evaluating Environmental Fate: Approaches Based on Chemical Structure (PDF)(4 pp, 208 K)
- Chapter 6. Evaluating Exposures (PDF)(3 pp, 151 K)
- Chapter 7. Green Chemistry (PDF)(3 pp, 166 K)
- Chapter 8. Evaluating Environmental Performance During Process Synthesis (PDF)(5 pp, 164 K)
- Chapter 9. Unit Operations and Pollution Prevention (PDF)(4 pp, 184 K)
- Chapter 10. Flowsheet Analysis for Pollution Prevention (PDF)(8 pp, 216 K)
- Chapter 11. Evaluating the Environmental Performance of a Flowsheet (PDF)(4 pp, 152 K)
- Chapter 12. Environmental Cost Accounting (PDF)(2 pp, 157 K)
- Chapter 13. Life-Cycle Concepts, Product Stewardship and Green Engineering (PDF)(5 pp, 161 K)
- Chapter 14. Industrial Ecology (PDF)(8 pp, 307 K)