Process Integration to Optimize Carbon Trading by Prof Raymond R. Tan | Department of Energy Science and Engineering

Location and Date:

Jan 7th, 2025 (Tuesday), 3.45 PM, DESE Seminar Room, 2nd Floor

Process Integration to Optimize Carbon Trading

Process integration was developed in the 1970s as a family of techniques to aid in the design of industrial heat recovery systems. Although originally conceived for the purpose of energy conservation, its use has diversified to a wide range of structurally analogous engineering problems. Process integration for industrial decarbonization emerged as an important branch of this area in the first quarter of the 21^st century. In this talk, I give an overview of my recent and current work on its applications to the optimization of carbon trading. Prospects for future research are also discussed.

Biography

Raymond R. Tan is a Distinguished Full Professor of the Department of Chemical Engineering, a University Fellow, and the Vice-President for Research and Innovation of De La Salle University. He is a Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences and an Academician of the Philippine National Academy of Science and Technology. Prof. Tan’s research focuses on the development and use of models for improving the sustainability of industrial systems, and he is best known as the co-developer of the carbon emissions pinch analysis algorithm. He is an editor-in-chief of Process Integration and Optimization for Sustainability, an associate editor of Sustainable Production and Consumption, and an editorial board member of other journals (e.g., Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy; Chemical Engineering Transactions; and Cleaner Engineering and Technology). He has been listed in the Scopus database of the top 2% of scientists in the world since 2019, and is in the Reuters “Hot List” of the 1,000 most influential climate researchers in the world.