Green Engineering and Sustainable Technology: Tools and Techniques

Secure your place at the forefront of the green revolution with this authoritative, expert-led guide to the latest innovations in green solvents, energy storage, and sustainable processes to transform industrial efficiency.

Modern sustainable development revolves around green engineering for designing processes and technologies that minimize environmental impact while maximizing efficiency. This book is an authoritative resource that presents the latest sustainable engineering innovations on materials, processes, and methods that reduce environmental consequences. It provides a holistic account of advances in sustainable engineering, delving into tools and techniques driving sustainable engineering. It demonstrates how we can minimize environmental impacts from industry by enhancing industrial efficacy. The book highlights green solvents such as deep eutectic solvents and ionic liquids, which have significance across energy storage, electrochemistry, and subsequent extraction, that emphasize sustainable fermentation, nano-emulsions, glycan separation, and green electrolytes for energy storage. Whether you are designing green infrastructure, designing energy-efficient products, or are involved in battery technologies, this essential guide provides several necessary tools and insights to catalyze inspiration and innovation to develop a cleaner and more sustainable future.

Readers will find the volume:

• Bridges the gap between green engineering concepts and practical applications, providing insights into how green principles are developed into sustainable technology;
• Focuses on green engineering practices that provide innovative solutions to existing problems and leading to new processes and products that uphold sustainability;
• Delves into groundbreaking developments in environmentally and economically advantageous sustainable technology.

Audience

Sustainability, chemical and civil engineers, environmental researchers, biotechnologists, environmental scientists who think beyond conventional practices and seek technologically advanced solutions to sustainability.

Senthilkumar Rathnasamy, PhD is a researcher and developer of green engineering solutions with more than two decades of academic and research experience. He serves as a Senior Assistant Professor in the School of Chemical and Biotechnology, SASTRA Deemed to be University, Thanjavur, India, and has made significant contributions to the fields of biochemical engineering, bioseparation, and protein purification, focusing on sustainability-driven innovations.

Vivek Rangarajan, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani KK Birla Goa Campus, Sancoale, India. He has authored more than 55 research and review articles in peer-reviewed journals and numerous book chapters. His extensive expertise spans the customization and fabrication of task-specific separation facilities, including high-pressure extractors, hybrid reactors, and pilot-scale chromatography columns.

Umile Gianfranco Spizzirri, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the Ionian Department of Law, Economics, and Environment, the University of Bari Aldo Moro, Taranto, Italy. He has published more than 130 articles in peer-reviewed international journals, 30 book chapters, 88 abstracts for national and international conferences, eight editorials, and eight edited volumes. His main research interests focus on the recovery and valorization of agro-industrial by-products for the development of functional foods, the validation of innovative analytical methods for detecting natural and xenobiotic contaminants in complex matrices, and the design and synthesis of macromolecular systems for applications in the food and environmental sector.