Process Systems Engineering for Better Sustainability: Challenges and Perspectives
A special issue of Processes (ISSN 2227-9717). This special issue belongs to the section "Process Control and Monitoring".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2024 | Viewed by 1670
Special Issue Editors
Interests: process systems engineering; sustainability; life cycle assessment; waste-to-energy
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The study of process systems engineering (PSE) aims to provide a series of effective and efficient solutions for promoting better sustainability with the simultaneous consideration of economic, environmental, and social impacts. The interdisciplinary and multiscale features of PSE imply that a good integration of conventional unit operation and advanced techniques, including artificial intelligence, multiobjective optimization, life-cycle assessment, multicriteria decision-making analysis, and supply chain optimization, can be achieved to promote a systematic solution for sustainable processes design, optimization, synthesis, and selection. The involved processes vary significant and include fossil fuel utilization, biomass valorization, waste heat recovery, renewable energy systems and carbon capture and utilization, etc. Overcoming sustainability challenges in these processes, such as improving energy efficiency and reducing carbon emissions, can be solved through PSE study with the above-mentioned techniques, boosting sustainable development.
This Special Issue, “Process Systems Engineering for Better Sustainability: Challenges and Perspectives”, aims to cover recent advances in the development of sustainable processes and present solutions for improving sustainability. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following areas:
- Process design, integration, intensification, and synthesis;
- Advanced process/supply chain optimization methods;
- Sustainability criteria and decision-making analysis;
- Life-cycle assessment of process systems;
- Waste valorization and waste heat recovery;
- Applications of AI techniques in the PSE;
- Techno-economic and energy/exergy analysis.
Dr. Jingzheng Ren
Dr. Chang He
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- process systems engineering
- process optimization
- decision-making analysis
- process intensification
- AI techniques
- life-cycle assessment
- sustainability analysis
