Process synthesis and process intensification are becoming state-of-the-art scientific fields that provide the methods and tools to improve process technologies in terms of high energy efficiency, low capital investment, low emissions, improved safety, and less hazardous byproducts to achieve sustainable products and processes. The book covers manufacturing processes from both fossil- and biomass-based feedstocks for graduate students.

Contributions by: Adriana Freites Aguilera, Ville Alopaeus, Lars Porskjær Christensen, Gabriel Contreras-Zarazúa, Massimiliano Errico, Xu Feng, Fernando Israel Gómez-Castro, Claudia Gutiérrez Antonio, Victor Sifontes Herrera, Anton A. Kiss, Sébastien Leveneur, Chandrakant R. Malwade, Saeed Mardani, Haiyan Qu, Tapio Salmi, Juan Gabriel Segovia-Hernández, Pasi Tolvanen, Carlo Edgar Torres Ortega, Jean-Noel Tourvielle, Petri Uusi-Kyyny, José Antonio Vázquez-Castillo, Yufei Wang