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Multi-Scale Sustainable Energy Systems Engineering

  • 1st Edition - April 1, 2027
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Efstratios Pistikopoulos, Yuhe Tian
  • Language: English

Multi-Scale Sustainable Energy Systems Engineering introduces a unified framework for modeling, analyzing, and optimizing complex energy systems, emphasizing interconnecti… Read more

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Description

Multi-Scale Sustainable Energy Systems Engineering introduces a unified framework for modeling, analyzing, and optimizing complex energy systems, emphasizing interconnections across materials, processes, and sectors to accelerate future energy pathways and the energy transition. The book covers advanced mathematical algorithms, uncertainty management, machine learning, and life cycle assessment, supported by real-world case studies like renewable hydrogen production. Readers will find detailed methods for designing large-scale energy solutions such as power-chemical polygeneration, renewable integration, and supply chain planning, along with considerations for dynamic, environment-aware operations. The final sections explore the food-energy-water nexus and provide practical tutorials using the ENERGIA software platform. This self-contained resource empowers researchers, engineers, policymakers, and graduate students to develop innovative solutions for sustainable energy challenges and contribute meaningfully to the transition towards cleaner, more resilient energy systems.

Key features

  • Provides a multi-scale methodological framework and software tool for the modelling, analysis, and optimization of sustainable energy systems
  • Introduces state-of-the-art mathematical optimization, design under uncertainty, machine learning, and life cycle assessment approaches with step-by-step demonstration examples
  • Presents a comprehensive set of energy system applications including power-chemical polygeneration, dense energy carriers, renewable energy systems, integrated energy and material transition, and food-energy-water nexus

Readership

Researchers and Academics in chemical engineering and energy engineering, Graduate students in process systems engineering, energy systems, and sustainability analysis

Table of contents

Part I. Energy Systems Modeling

1. Current Energy Landscape and the Energy Transition

2. Representative Energy Systems

3. Key Modeling Challenges

Part II. Energy Systems Methods and Tools

4. Mathematical Optimization

5. Optimization under Uncertainty

6. Multi-Objective Optimization

7. Machine Learning

8. Life Cycle Assessment

9. Case Study Revisit: Hydrogen Production with Renewable Energy

Part III. Energy Systems Design and Optimization

10. Power-Chemical Polygeneration Energy Systems Design under Uncertainty

11. Biomass-based Coproduction of Ammonia and Methanol

12. Optimizing Renewable Power Systems with Storage using Clustering Decomposition

13. Multi-Product Process Network Optimization with Renewable and Fossil Energy

Part IV. Sustainable Energy Transition

14. ENERGIA - An Integrated Framework for Modeling and Optimization of Energy Systems

15. Integrated Energy and Material Transition via Multi-scale Modeling and Optimization

16. Integrating Time-Varying Environmental Indicators for Enhanced Sustainability

17. Hydrogen-Based Dense Energy Carrier Supply Chain Planning

Part V. Food-Energy-Water Nexus

18. The Food-Energy-Water Nexus

19. Food: Optimal Greenhouse Farming Systems Design and Operation

20. Energy: Optimal Design of Renewable Energy Systems

21. Water: Design of Reverse Osmosis Desalination Plants

22. Revisit: The Full Integration of Food-Energy-Water Nexus

Part VI. ENERGIA Software Toolbox

23. ENERGIA Software Prototype and Hands-On Tutorials

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: April 1, 2027
  • Language: English

About the authors

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Efstratios Pistikopoulos

Stratos Pistikopoulos is the Director of the Texas A&M Energy Institute, and a University Distinguished Professor holding the Dow Chemical Chair in the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University. He holds a Diploma from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and a Ph.D. degree from Carnegie Mellon University. His research focuses on modelling, data analysis, multiparametric control and optimization of energy, process and systems engineering & automation applications.
Affiliations and expertise
University Distinguished Professor, Director, Texas A&M Energy Institute, Dow Chemical Chair, Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA

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Yuhe Tian

Dr. Yuhe Tian is Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at West Virginia University. Prior to joining WVU, she received her Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering from Texas A&M University (2016-2021). She holds Bachelor’s degrees in Chemical Engineering and Mathematics from Tsinghua University, China (2012-2016). Her research focuses on the development and application of multi-scale systems engineering tools for modular process intensification, sustainable energy systems, advanced control and real-time decision-making.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA