Biofuels for a More Sustainable Future: Migration and Interface: Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment and Multi-Criteria Decision Making - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0128155817 ISBN 13: 9780128155813

Publisher: Elsevier, 2019

Synopsis

Nanostructured Immiscible Polymer Blends: Migration and Interface covers a wide range of nanoparticle types, emphasizing the mechanisms and parameters involved in the migration of nanofillers inside immiscible polymer blends. This book explores the influence of nanoparticle migration on the localization, and hence, morphology development, electrical conductivity, and met-rheological properties of blended composite materials. As the influence of solid particles, ranging in size from several hundred nanometers to a few microns in immiscible polymer blends has been extensively studied for use as compatibilizers, morphology stabilizers, and reinforcement agents, this book is a timely resource.

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About the Authors

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

Antonio Scipioni, University of Padova. Professor at the Industrial Engineering Department. He is the Director of CESQA, a leading research group with outstanding research results in the field of environmental and energy management. He is the member of the national committee on environment that approve standards on environmental management issues. He has managed as scientific director several European funded projects for the University of Padova with partners from all over Europe and with a specific focus on Energy issues and sustainability.

Alessandro Manzardo is a senior associate researcher in the field of footprint and sustainability assessment in the Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Padova. He is the chair of the Italian committee at the ISO/TC 207 committee on ISO standards related to environment. He is an active member in several UNEP-Life Cycle Initiative processes on the definition of Life Cycle Assessment and Sustainability methods (e.g. Footprints). He has scored several papers on energy-related topics with specific focus on Hydrogen Energy.

Hanwei Liang is an assistant professor in the Collaborative Innovation Center on Forecast and Evaluation of Meteorological Disaster, School of Geography and Remote Sensing, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology. She obtained her Ph.D. in Engineering from Nagoya University in 2014. Her research mainly focuses on civil engineering and applications of operations research for sustainability. She has published 20 international journal papers in peer-reviewed journals such as Journal of Cleaner Production, Resources, Conservation & Recycling, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. She is a member of the International Society of Industrial Ecology (ISIE), The Society for Urban Ecology, Sustainability Science, and Society of Environmental Science, Japan.

From the Back Cover

Biofuels for a More Sustainable Future: Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment and Multi-Criteria Decision-Making

Provides the life cycle sustainability analysis, multi-criteria decision-making tools, industry insights and policy implications for promoting the sustainable development of biofuels

Biofuels for a More Sustainable Future: Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment and Multi-Criteria Decision-Making provides a comprehensive sustainability analysis of biofuels based on life cycle thinking and develops various multi-dimensional decision-making techniques for prioritizing the biofuel production technologies. Taking a transversal approach, the book combines life cycle sustainability assessment, life cycle assessment, life cycle costing analysis, social life cycle assessment, sustainability metrics, triple bottom line, operations research methods, and supply chain design for investigating the critical factors and key enablers that influence the sustainable development of biofuel industry; summarizing the biofuels technologies, processes, standards and regulations; employing the life cycle thinking for investigating the sustainability of biofuels; defining the broad concept of sustainability and sustainability assessment; developing the decision-support tools for sustainability prioritization of biofuel production pathways; and reviewing the key issues, challenges and models for sustainable biofuel supply chain design.

Biofuels for a More Sustainable Future: Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment and Multi-Criteria Decision-Making equips researchers and policy-makers in the energy sector with the scientific methodology and metrics needed to develop strategies for viable sustainability transition. The book is a key resource for students, researchers, and practitioners seeking to deepen their knowledge of energy planning and the current and future trends of biofuel as an alternative fuel.

Key Features

• Provides an innovative approach for promoting the sustainable development of biofuels by linking life cycle thinking and decision support systems
• Features case studies and examples to illustrate the theory and methods developed in each chapter
• Includes material on corporate social responsibility and economic analysis of biofuels that is significantly useful to policy-makers and administrators in government and enterprises who want to understand the risk of a specific biofuel production pathway

About the Editors

Jingzheng Ren
Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, China

Antonio Scipioni
Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Padova, Italy

Alessandro Manzardo
Senior Associate Researcher, Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Padova, Italy

Hanwei Liang
Associate Professor, School of Geography and Remote Sensing, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing, China

Edition details

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0128155817
• ISBN 13: 9780128155813
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 414
• Editor: Ren