Process Integration, Modelling and Optimisation for Energy Saving and Pollution Reduction—In Memory of Professor Habil Jiří Jaromír Klemeš

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue is dedicated to Prof Ing Dr-Habil Jiří Jaromír Klemeš, DSc, dr.h.c. (1945-2023), who contributed greatly to the field of process integration.

Prof Ing Dr-Habil Jiří Jaromír Klemeš, DSc, dr.h.c. (1945-2023), was the Head and Key Foreign Scientist at the “Sustainable Process Integration Laboratory”, where he worked in strategic research sustainable process integration and management of the SPIL. He supervised scientists and PhDs at NETME Centre, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Brno University of Technology - VUT BRNO, Czech Republic. He also held the position as the Leading Scientist of PSE&S (International Centre for Process Systems Engineering & Sustainability, Pázmány Péter Catholic University (Pázmány Péter Katolikus Egyetem) Információs Technológiai és Bionikai Kar) Budapest, and was a Pólya Professor. He was also an Emeritus Professor at the University of Pannonia, Egyetem Utca 10, 8200 Veszprém, Hungary.

In 1998, he founded and became the President of a worldwide attended International Conference, “Process Integration, Mathematical Modelling and Optimisation for Energy Saving and Pollution reduction – PRES”.  In 2015, he was re-elected for the second term as a Chairperson and also served as the Country Representative in the working party of “Computer Aided Process Engineering”; further, he was also a member in the working party of “Process Intensification” and “Sustainability” Section of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering. He was a representative on the EUROTHERM Committee.

The priorities of this in memoriam: this Special Issue focuses on the research direction of Prof Klemeš in the area of  “Process Integration, Modelling and Optimisation for Energy Saving and Pollution Reduction”, including, but not limited to, the following topics:

• Process integration (PI) and PI for industrial symbiosis;
• Renewable energy integration for a lower carbon emission intensity;
• Sustainable electrification for emission reduction;
• Sustainable energy transition;
• Pinch analysis approaches;
• Waste heat recovery;
• Waste to energy conversion.

Submissions are welcome from experts and researchers who presented their work at the conferences PRES’23 , SPIL’22 , and ICLCA’22 , of which Prof. Dr. Jiří Jaromír Klemeš was the founder and advisor, and of which he was the president of PRES for 25 years.

Authors who have been working with Prof. Dr. Jiří Jaromír Klemeš or inspired by his works are also invited to submit their original research articles or review articles to this particular Special Issue if they believe their work fits within the scope.

Prof. Dr. Petar Sabev Varbanov
Dr. Jeng Shiun Lim
Dr. Yee-Van Fan
Dr. Hesam Kamyab
Prof. Dr. Panos Seferlis
Dr. Athanasios I. Papadopoulos
Guest Editors

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