Recent Advances in Sustainable Process Design and Optimization

Sustainability and energy have become important topics for the process systems engineering research community. Many recent papers are related to this area; these trends motivated us to commission a Special Issue in this field. The societal challenges of clean energy provision and sustainable production of materials and chemicals are systemic in nature and hence require systems thinking rather than purely trying to uncover a magic bullet. Another trend in the field is the optimal design of processes from an economic and environmental perspective; again, this underpinning methodology is inherent to the development of future energy and industrial production systems.

The proposed Special Issue aims to collect recent advances in the study and development of sustainable processes by gathering diverse scientific breakthroughs on the modeling, design, control, and optimization of process systems by leading engineering researchers in the field. Under the common theme of recent advances in sustainable process design and optimization, the proposed Special Issue unites a series of papers that address the challenges associated with economic and eco-friendly processes. The papers to be included in the Special Issue will cover a broad range of theoretical and applied topics of interest to process systems engineering researchers.

Prof. Wangyun Won
Guest Editor

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