Advanced Waste Valorization for Circular Economy
Chemical Process Design and Simulation
- 1st Edition - April 1, 2026
- Latest edition
- Editors: Jingzheng Ren, Yue Liu, Abdul Moktadir
- Language: English
Advanced Waste Valorization for Circular Economy: Chemical Process Design and Simulation is a comprehensive resource designed to advance knowledge in chemical process design… Read more
Advanced Waste Valorization for Circular Economy: Chemical Process Design and Simulation is a comprehensive resource designed to advance knowledge in chemical process design, simulation, and sustainability assessment focused on waste valorization. The book emphasizes circular economy principles and provides practical guidance for optimizing waste management strategies. Covering a broad spectrum of waste types such as industrial, municipal, medical, plastic, agricultural, and food waste, it equips readers with the latest methodologies, including simulation and decision-making processes, and explores Industry 4.0 technologies and circular supply chain design. This guide supports professionals, researchers, and students committed to building a sustainable future.
In addition, the book offers learning objectives, case studies, and review exercises in every chapter to deepen understanding and support skill development. It is tailored for a wide audience, including chemical engineering professors, researchers, industry experts in process systems engineering and renewable energy, as well as environmental consultants and administrators involved in waste management. Undergraduate and graduate students specializing in energy, environmental, or chemical engineering will find it an invaluable textbook for mastering sustainable waste valorization and circular process design.
In addition, the book offers learning objectives, case studies, and review exercises in every chapter to deepen understanding and support skill development. It is tailored for a wide audience, including chemical engineering professors, researchers, industry experts in process systems engineering and renewable energy, as well as environmental consultants and administrators involved in waste management. Undergraduate and graduate students specializing in energy, environmental, or chemical engineering will find it an invaluable textbook for mastering sustainable waste valorization and circular process design.
- Provides a comprehensive framework for advanced waste valorization technologies in the circular economy, reviewing common waste valorization technologies, principles, and basic working flow, methods, and algorithms
- Includes decision-making recommendations tailored to different situations case studies, section optimization, and directions for advanced waste valorization technologies
- Presents learning objective sections and review exercises throughout the book to assist students and academics with testing their knowledge of novel concepts
- Covers step-by-step methodologies and frameworks for the process analysis and evaluation of waste valorization technologies, covering feasibility analysis, techno-economic analysis, energy and material flow analysis, carbon footprint analysis, and environmental impact assessments
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
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
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
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: April 1, 2026
- Language: English
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Jingzheng Ren
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
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, ChinaYL
Yue Liu
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.
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong KongAM
Abdul Moktadir
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.
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong