Special Issue "Design and Control of Sustainable Systems"
A special issue of Processes (ISSN 2227-9717). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Processes".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (5 September 2019) | Viewed by 39546
Special Issue Editors
Interests: process design; advanced process control; energy integration
Interests: optimization; smart systems engineering; renewable energy; sustainability; machine learning; energy process modeling, control, and optimization; healthcare manufacturing and supply chain; life cycle sustainability assessment
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Sustainability has been one of the key drivers for technological innovation in this century. With the fundamental motivation of ensuring the fulfilment of current needs without compromising the needs of future generations, sustainability targets goals in economic (such as improved process and energy efficiency), environmental (such as the minimization of carbon and waste footprints), and social (such as process safety) perspectives. These goals have given rise to a large number of sustainable process and energy systems such as reactive distillation, microreactors, CO2 capture and sequestration, smart grids and microgrids, and smart manufacturing, and the quest for new designs continues at a rapid pace. At the same time, such systems pose unique operational challenges due to the presence of multiple length or time scales, multiple conflicting objectives, and the interconnection of multiple agents. These call for efficient control strategies to realize sustainable benefits. In this context, the integrated design and control of sustainable processes can allow one to balance the trade-off between process economics and operational flexibility.
This Special Issue on “Design and Control of Sustainable Systems” aims to incorporate recent developments in the area of the design and/or control of sustainable process and energy systems. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Integrated or intensified processes;
- Renewable chemical, materials, and energy production;
- Process safety and/or risk management;
- Smart grids, microgrids, and/or co-generation systems;
- Carbon capture and sequestration, emission or effluent management;
- Waste reduction and/or waste-to-energy/resources;
- Smart manufacturing systems and technologies.
Prof. Dr. Xiaonan Wang
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- process integration
- energy integration
- process intensification
- CO2 sequestration
- smart grids
- microgrids
- safety
- advanced control
- integrated design and control
- sustainability
- renewable fuels
- waste management