This book is a unique, multidisciplinary, effort to apply rigorous
thermodynamics fundamentals, a disciplined scholarly approach, to
problems of sustainability, energy, and resource uses. Applying
thermodynamic thinking to problems of sustainable behavior is a
significant advantage in bringing order to ill defined questions
with a great variety of proposed solutions, some of which are more
destructive than the original problem. The articles are pitched at
a level accessible to advanced undergraduates and graduate students
in courses on sustainability, sustainable engineering, industrial
ecology, sustainable manufacturing, and green engineering. The
timeliness of the topic, and the urgent need for solutions make
this book attractive to general readers and specialist researchers
as well. Top international figures from many disciplines, including
engineers, ecologists, economists, physicists, chemists, policy
experts and industrial ecologists among others make up the
impressive list of contributors. About the Authors Bhavik R. Bakshi
holds a dual appointment as a Professor of Chemical and
Biomolecular Engineering at The Ohio State University, and Vice
Chancellor and Professor of Energy and Environment at TERI
University, New Delhi. He is also the Research Director of the
Center for Resilience at Ohio State. From 2006 to 2010, he was a
Visiting Professor at the Institute of Chemical Technology in
Mumbai, India. He has written over 100 refereed publications in
areas such as Process Systems Engineering and Sustainability
Science and Engineering. Timothy G. Gutowski is a Professor of
Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Cambridge, USA. He was the Director of MIT s Laboratory
for Manufacturing and Productivity (1994-2004), and the Associate
Department Head for Mechanical Engineering (2001-2005). From 1999
to 2001 he was the chairman of the National Science Foundation -
Department of Energy panel on Environmentally Benign Manufacturing.
He has written over 150 technical publications, and seven patents
and patent applications. He is the editor of Advanced Composites
Manufacturing (1997). Dusan P. Sekulic is a Professor of Mechanical
Engineering at the University of Kentucky. He is a fellow of ASME.
Dr. Sekulic is a consulting professor at the Harbin Institute of
Technology, PR China. He is the author of over 150 refereed
research publications, more than a dozen book chapters, and the
author of the book Fundamentals of Heat Exchanger Design (jointly
with R.K. Shah), published in English, and in Chinese. He is the
editor of the books Advances in Brazing: Science, Technology and
Applications and Fundamentals of Heat Exchanger Design (2003)
co-edited with Ramesh K. Shah.
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