This book is a state of the art treatise on what has been done so far on measuring
sustainability for decision making. Contributions will appeal to engineers and scientists
engaged in technology development assessment and verification. Researchers working on
engineering sustainability are likely to get ideas for further research in quantifying
sustainability for industrial systems. Concepts described can be applied across all scales
from process technology to global sustainability and challenges and limitations are also
addressed.Readers will discover important insights about simulation-based approaches to process
design and quantitative measurement techniques of sustainability for business and technology
systems. Most of the examples and case studies are from chemical enterprises but the
methodologies presented could be applicable to any system for which quantitative data for
indicators are available and the choice of the set of indicators of sustainability are
comprehensive.
