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 will need Adobe 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)