Advanced Waste Valorization for Circular Economy: Chemical Process Design and Simulation serves as an essential guide for chemical process design, simulation, optimization, and sustainability assessment within waste volarization. This book equips readers with updated knowledge on circular economy principles applied to waste valorization. It covers chemical process design, simulation, optimization, sustainability assessment, decision-making processes, Industry 4.0 technology applications, and circular supply chain design. Additionally, it delves into advanced waste valorization technologies for various waste types, including industrial, municipal, medical, plastic, agricultural, and food waste. There is an increasing demand for waste valorization underscores the need for advanced resources on waste management and eco-friendly valorization. Advanced Waste Valorization for Circular Economy: Chemical Process Design and Simulation compiles up-to-date resources for industry professionals, researchers, academics, and students to understand circular process design and its real-life implementation, contributing to a more sustainable and circular future. This book includes learning objectives, case studies, step-by-step methodologies and review exercises in each chapter to help students and researchers alike deepen and test their understanding of crucial aspects of sustainable waste valorization. This book is suitable for a very broad audience, including chemical engineering professionals such as professors, researchers, chemical engineers, and industry experts, particularly those engaged in process systems engineering, intelligent manufacturing, intelligent process control, advanced waste management, and renewable energy. This book will also be a valuable resource for environmental and energy consultants specializing in promoting sustainable development through advanced waste valorization. Additionally, administrators responsible for waste management in various capacities and undergraduate/graduate students majoring in energy and environmental engineering, chemical engineering, or specializing in renewable energy engineering will find this book valuable as a textbook.
Part I: Waste valorization process design, simulation, and optimization
1. Advanced waste valorization technologies for the circular economy-based
chemical process design and optimization: Past, current, and future
prospect.
2. Applications of Industry 4.0 technologies for modelling and control of
chemical process systems design for waste valorization
3. Emerging intelligent models for innovation process design and optimization
of advanced waste management: A comprehensive review
4. Simulation and AI based Hybrid Models for solid waste valorization: A case
study
5. An Emerging AI tool based for process simulation and prediction of energy
production from solid waste: A case study
6. An ASPEN Plus derived innovative process optimization model for hazardous
waste valorization
7. Data-driven predictive model design and optimization for circular
economy-based waste valorization process under uncertainty
Part II: Process analysis and assessment for advanced waste valorization
technologies
8. Techno-economic analysis and feasibility assessment of advanced waste
valorization technologies: A comprehensive review
9. Techno-economic analysis and energy and material flow analysis for
advanced waste valorization processes: A case study
10. Carbon emissions and carbon footprints analysis in advanced waste
valorization technologies: A life cycle perspective
11. Circular economy concept in waste valorization process design and
evaluation: Understanding, research and practices
12. Sustainability evaluation of waste-to-energy technologies towards
circular economy: An integrated framework for environmental, economic,
social, and technological assessment
13. Risk analysis and safety assessment for the sustainability-oriented waste
valorization technologies based on a numerical descriptive approach
Part III: Decision-Making, Circular Design, and Optimization for Waste
Valorization
14. Circular economy-oriented sustainable decision-analysis for waste
valorization technologies: Influential factors identification and
alternatives prioritization
15. Multi-criteria decision-analysis in complex situations for advanced waste
valorization technologies by scenario analysis
16. Sustainable supply chain design for waste valorization technologies
management towards a circular economy
17. Developing sustainability performance indicators for circular process
design based waste-to-energy technology
18. A group decision-making model for assessing success factors for
successfully implementing Industry 4.0 technologies towards waste
valorization
19. Resilient circular economy model development for waste valorization with
disruption risk management
Jingzheng Ren is Assistant Professor of Modelling for Energy, Environment and Sustainability at the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering of Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU). He has also been nominated as adjunct/honorary associate professor of University of Southern Denmark (Denmark) and associated senior research fellow of the Institute for Security & Development Policy (Stockholm, Sweden). Prof. Ren serves as board member of several scientific journals and published more than 150 papers, authored 1 book, edited more than 10 books and published more than 40 book chapters. His research focuses on process system engineering for better sustainability and mathematical models for solving energy and environmental problems and promoting sustainability transition Yue Liu is currently a Research Associate of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her current research interests focus on life cycle assessment, sustainable waste valorization, and carbon neutrality. She has around 30 publications in high-level international journals on chemical process engineering and sustainable development, with a focus on sustainability evaluation and multi-criteria decision-making analysis for waste management technologies, such as ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, Resources Conservation and Recycling.
Abdul Moktadir worked as an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Leather Engineering and Technology, University of Dhaka. His research interests include waste valorization, circular economy, process simulations, decision-making, supply chain design, and Industry 4.0. He has published more than 60 articles in prestigious and high-impact journals such as the Journal of Cleaner Production, Journal of Environmental Management, Energy Conversion and Management, Energy, Process Safety and Environmental Protection, Resources, Conservation & Recycling, and so on.
