Sustainable Engineering: Process Intensification, Energy Analysis, and Artificial Intelligence

Sustainable engineering is of great importance for resilient and agile technology and society. This book balances economics, environment, and societal elements of sustainable engineering by integrating process intensification, energy analysis, and artificial intelligence to reduce production costs, improve the use of material and energy, product quality, safety, societal well-being, and water usage. The book provides comprehensive discussion of topics on process intensification, energy analysis, and artificial intelligence that include optimization, energy integration, green engineering, pinch analysis, exergy analysis, feasibility analysis, life cycle assessment, circular economy, bioeconomy, data processing, machine learning, expert systems, digital twins, and self-optimized plants for sustainable engineering.

Yaşar Demirel earned a Ph.D. degree in chemical engineering from the University of Birmingham, UK in 1981. He carried out research and scholarly work at the University of Delaware and at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg as a visiting professor. He has been on the faculty of the University of Nebraska, Lincoln since 2006. He has accumulated extensive teaching and research experience over the years in diverse fields of engineering. He taught process design and optimization at VT and UNL for more than 20 years. He currently serves as a professor at the chemical and biomolecular engineering department and teaches process design and thermodynamics at UNL. He is the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Thermodynamics. He authored and co-authored two books, four book chapters, and more than 160 research papers. The fourth edition of ＂Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics＂ was published in 2019 by Elsevier. The third edition of the book titled ＂Energy: Production, Conversion, Storage, Conservation, and Coupling was published in 2021 by Springer. He has obtained several awards, scholarships, and presented numerous invited seminars.

Marc A. Rosen, Ph.D. is a Professor at Ontario Tech University (formally University of Ontario Institute of Technology) in Oshawa, Canada, where he served as founding Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science. Dr. Rosen has served as President of the Engineering Institute of Canada and of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering. He has acted in many professional capacities, including Editor-in-Chief of various journals and a Director of Oshawa Power and Utilities Corporation.

With over 70 research grants and contracts and 900 technical publications, Dr. Rosen is an active teacher and researcher in sustainable energy, sustainability, and environmental impact. Much of his research has been carried out for industry. Dr. Rosen has worked for such organizations as Imatra Power Company in Finland, Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago, the Institute for Hydrogen Systems near Toronto, and Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University) in Toronto, where he served as Chair of the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Industrial Engineering.

Dr. Rosen has received numerous awards and honors, and he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Engineering Institute of Canada, the Canadian Academy of Engineering, the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the International Energy Foundation and the Canadian Society for Senior Engineers.