Advances in Green Process Systems Engineering
A special issue of Processes (ISSN 2227-9717). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental and Green Processes".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 April 2026 | Viewed by 9
Special Issue Editors
Interests: process systems engineering; process simulation and optimization; process design; uncertainty analysis; quality control; digital twin; smart manufacturing
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Interests: process systems engineering; bioenergy; artificial intelligence; energy systems; optimization; process control
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Process industries are an essential foundation of the economy in many countries, involving multiple fields such as petrochemical engineering, metallurgical engineering, materials, energy, food processing, pharmaceuticals, and environmental engineering. The rapid evolution of process technology is leading to an ever-growing demand for resources and an increasingly deteriorating ecological environment. These challenges in process industries in terms of environmental protection and sustainable development contribute to the emergence and growth of green process systems engineering (PSE).
Green PSE is an emerging interdisciplinary field that integrates PSE techniques with green sustainability principles. By leveraging advanced modeling, design, optimization, and integration techniques, green PSE aims to increase resource efficiency, reduce energy consumption, minimize pollution emissions, and enhance recycling capabilities. The development of green PSE technology not only requires innovation and efficiency in raw materials, solvents, catalysts, and unit equipment but also needs to achieve a multi-objective optimization of the economy, environment, safety, and sustainability from a systematic perspective. Key focus areas include renewable energy development and integration, industrial intelligence, digital twins, multi-scale simulation, carbon capture and utilization, the circular economy, AI-driven process optimization, etc. Green PSE can provide a systematic framework for developing cleaner, smarter, and more sustainable manufacturing solutions, aligning economic growth with ecological responsibility.
This Special Issue will showcase state-of-the-art advances in PSE technologies and their applications in promoting green and sustainable developments across chemical, energy, material, and pharmaceutical industries.
We seek to highlight a broad range of topics, including but not limited to the following:
- Advanced process simulation and optimization technologies, with a special focus on multi-scale modeling, quality control, and production lifecycle management.
- Exploration and development of renewable energy and materials.
- Process technologies for high energy efficiency and low emissions.
- Implementations of intelligent industry, emphasizing the importance of industrial software, large industrial models, and digital twin techniques.
- Production safety techniques, such as production flexibility and system reliability.
- Challenges and potential research directions in environmental protection and sustainable development.
Dr. Fei Zhao
Dr. Michael Short
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Processes is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- green chemical engineering
- renewable energy
- smart manufacturing
- process simulation and optimization
- process intensification
- multi-scale simulation
- carbon capture and utilization
- safety and environmental protection
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