Introduction; Motivating Examples; Process Synthesis and Analysis; Process Integration: A Brief Overview; Strategies for Material Recovery and Types of RCNs; Problem Statements; Structure of the Book Data Extraction for Resource Conservation; Segregation for Material Sources; Extraction of Limiting Data for Material Sink for Concentration-Based RCN; Data Extraction for Mass Exchange Processes; Data Extraction for Hydrogen-Consuming Units in Refinery; Data Extraction for Property Integration; Additional Readings PART I INSIGHT-BASED PINCH ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES; Graphical Targeting Techniques for Direct Reuse/Recycle; Material Recovery Pinch Diagram; Significance of the Pinch and Insights from MRPD; Targeting for Multiple Resources; Targeting for Threshold Problems; Targeting for Property Integration; Additional Readings Algebraic Targeting Techniques for Direct. Identification; Waste Identification for Material Regeneration Network; Targeting for Minimum Waste Treatment Flowrate; Insights from the WTPD; Additional Readings Synthesis of Pretreatment Network; Basic Modeling of a Partitioning Interception Unit; Pretreatment Pinch Diagram; Insights on Design Principles from PPD; Pretreatment Network Design with Nearest Neighbor Algorithm Synthesis of Inter-Plant Resource Conservation Networks ; Types of IPRCN Problems; Generic Targeting Procedure for IPRCN; Design of IPRCN; IPRCN with Material Regeneration and Waste Treatment; Additional Readings Synthesis of Batch Material Networks ; Types of Batch Resource Consumption Units; Targeting Procedure for Direct Reuse/Recycle in a BMN without Mass Storage System; Targeting Procedure for Direct Reuse/Recycle in a BMN with Mass Storage System; Targeting for Batch Regeneration Network; Design of a BMN; Waste. Treatment and Batch Total Network; Additional Readings PART II MATHEMATICAL OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES; Synthesis of Resource Conservation Networks: A Superstructural Approach ; Superstructural Model for Direct Reuse/Recycle Network; Incorporation of Process Constraints; Capital and Total Cost Estimations; Reducing Network Complexity; Superstructural Model for Material Regeneration Network; Superstructural Model for Inter-Plant Resource Conservation Networks; Additional Readings Automated Targeting Model for Direct Reuse/Recycle Networks ; Basic Framework and Mathematical Formulation of ATM; Incorporation of Process Constraints into ATM; ATM for Property Integration with Inferior Operator Level; ATM for Bilateral Problems Automated Targeting Model for Material Regeneration and Pretreatment Networks ; Types of Interception Units and Their Characteristics; ATM for RCN with Single Pass Interception Unit. Material Networks; Basic ATM Procedure for Batch Material Networks; ATM for Direct Reuse/Recycle Network; ATM for Batch Regeneration Network; ATM for Batch Total Network; Further Reading Appendix: Case Studies and Examples Index Problems and References appear at the end of each chapter.