Sustainability Engineering: Challenges, Technologies, and Applications focuses on emerging topics within sustainability science and engineering, including the circular economy, advanced recycling technologies, decarbonization, renewable energy, and waste valorization. Readers will learn the trends driving today's sustainability research and innovation as well as the latest in sustainable process technologies.
- Addresses emerging sustainability development challenges, progress, and disruptive technologies.
- Discusses biological sustainability, recycling technologies, and sustainable process design and manufacture.
- Features a comprehensive view from renowned experts who are leaders in their respective research areas.
This work is aimed at an interdisciplinary audience of engineers and scientists working on solutions to advance the development and application of sustainable technologies, including, but not limited to, chemical and environmental engineers.
About the Author: Eric Tan is an expert in biorefinery and sustainability at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). His research interests and experiences include sustainable process design, biofuels, renewable chemicals, heterogeneous catalysis, carbon economy, circular economy, techno-economic analysis, sustainability, and life-cycle assessment (LCA). At NREL, Dr. Tan plays a key role in the conceptual process design and assessment of various biomass conversion pathways to produce infrastructure-compatible, cost-competitive liquid hydrocarbon fuels from lignocellulosic biomass feedstocks. As an expert in biorefinery and sustainability analysis, he has co-authored over 70 peer-reviewed journal publications, conference proceedings, book chapters, and public technical reports, as well as over 80 national and international conference presentations.
Dr. Tan is a senior member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and a technical advisor of their Sustainable Engineering Forum Leadership Team. He is also an American Center for Life Cycle Assessment certified LCA Professional and holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering and a graduate certificate in Corporate Sustainability and Innovation from Harvard Extension School.
