Clean Technologies & Recycling

Advisory Board

Peiwen (Perry) Li

Professor and Department Head, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Arizona, USA
Fuel cell and electrolysis, Hydrogen production, Renewable energy technologies, Thermal energy storage, Thermal-driven water technology

Ming Lim

Professor, Faculty Research Centre for Business in Society, Coventry University, England
Supply chain management, integrating engineering, Radio-frequency Identification (RFID), Internet of Things, cloud computing, green/low carbon logistics, lean and agile manufacturing, responsive and reconfigurable manufacturing/supply chain

John W. Sutherland

Professor and Fehsenfeld Family Head, Environmental and Ecological Engineering, Purdue University, USA
Environmentally responsible design and manufacturing; closed loop material cycles through remanufacturing and recycling; life cycle engineering; green manufacturing planning; social sustainability of manufacturing

Editors in Chief

Hongyue Jin

Department of Systems & Industrial Engineering, University of Arizona, USA
Sustainable development of new technologies, techno-economic analysis, life cycle assessment, supply chain optimization, value recovery of rare earth elements, electronic waste, lithium ion batteries, and cement production

Jaeheon Lee

Department of Mining Engineering, Colorado School of Mines
Ore characterization, hydrometallurgical processes, recycling metals, mine water treatment

Editorial Board

Corby Anderson

Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, USA
Extractive metallurgy, mineral processing, waste minimization and recycling, industrially oriented research

Yaocai Bai

Electrification and Energy Infrastructures Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Lithium-ion battery recycling, solid state batteries, battery manufacturing, electrocatalysis, nanomaterials

Gwendolyn Bailey

Market Intelligence Manager, Umicore, Belgium
Life cycle assessment, battery and other clean emerging technologies

Yi Bao

Department of Civil, Environmental and Ocean Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey, USA
Waste valorization; Construction and Building Materials; Smart sensors and robots; Sustainable Built Environment; Machine Learning

Michele Barbato

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California Davis, Davis, USA
Structural Engineering; structural analysis; finite element method; performance-based engineering; stochastic dynamics; hazard assessment and mitigation; green concrete; valorization of waste and by-product materials for construction applications

Davide Di Battista

Associate Professor in Systems for Energy and Environment, in the Department of Industrial and Information Engineering and Economics of the University of L’Aquila
Thermal Engineering, Energy Engineering, Energy Conversion, Renewable Energy Technologies, Energy, Engines, Energy Planning

Enrico Bernardo

Associate Professor of Materials Science and Technology, University of Padova, Department of Industrial Engineering
Development of ceramic materials based on glass, recycled or deriving from natural and industrial waste; Advanced ceramic materials from innovative processes and raw materials – Study of the synergy between synthesis and manufacturing process of glass-ceramic and ceramic materials

Witold Brostow

Regents Prof. of Materials Science and Engineering, University of North Texas; President of the International Council on Materials Education (45 countries represented)
Polymer and Composite systems, Materials Science Education, Biomaterials, Materials recycling

Giampaolo Campana

Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna, Department of Industrial Engineering, Via Zamboni 33, 40126 Bologna, Italy
Sustainable manufacturing, sustainable by design of material, manufacturing processes and products, safe-and-sustainable by design of material, manufacturing processes and products, 6R approach (reduce, reuse, recover, remanufacturing, redesign, recycle)

Ripon K. Chakrabortty

School of Engineering & Information Technology, University of New South Wales, Canberra, Austrilia
Green Supply Chain Management; Smart and Sustainable Project Scheduling; Production Planning; Optimisation; Decision Analytics and Artificial Intelligence

Elsayed Elbeshbishy

Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Science, Ryerson University, Canada
Energy and nutrient recovery from organic fraction of municipal solid wastes; Anaerobic digestion and anaerobic membrane bioreactor; Pretreatment of solid wastes; Anaerobic Co- digestion; Dark fermentation

Myriam Ertz

Department of Economics and Administration, University of Québec in Chicoutimi, Chicoutimi, Canada
Collaborative economy; product lifetimes; responsible marketing; pro-environmental behavior; technology and innovation

Jose Espiritu

Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department, Texas A&M University – Kingsville, USA
System risk and reliability analysis, energy systems optimization, data analysis, sustainability engineering, smart systems engineering education

Homayoun Fathollahzadeh

School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, Curtin University, Australia
Green technologies and sustainable supply chain for energy and mining industries

Andrés Elías Feijóo-Lorenzo

Departamento de Enxeñería Eléctrica, Universidade de Vigo, Vigo, Spain
Wind energy, steady state and dynamic analysis of electric power networks

José M. Franco

Chemical Engineering, University of Huelva, 21071, Huelva, Spain
Rheology, polymers and biopolymers, lubricating oils & greases, adhesives & coatings, gels, colloids, lignocellulosic materials

Xiangyun Gao

School of Economics and Management, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), China
Complexity science, mineral resources economics, energy economics, econometrics

Babu George

Alcorn School of Business, Alcorn State University, MS, USA
Sustainability and digital transformation

Pezhman Ghadimi

School of Mechanical & Materials Engineering, University College Dublin, Ireland
Knowledge management and product lifecycle management, sustainable supply chain management and operations

Ahmad Ghahreman

Department of Mining, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Hydrometallurgical extraction of precious, base and strategic metals, recycling, remediation of toxic species in process waters

Arun Ghosh

Center for Materials & Manufacturing Sciences, Department of Chemistry & Physics, Troy University, USA
Plastic recycling and advanced materials

Dharma Hagare

Sustainability Engineering in the School of Engineering, Western Sydney University, Australia
Recycled water for irrigation, reuse of water and nutrients within dairy industries and urban stormwater management

Nourredine Aït Hocine

Institut National des Sciences Appliquées du Centre Val de Loire (INSA-CVL), Laboratoire "LaMé", Blois, France
Polymers, elastomers, composites, nanocomposites, recycling, properties characterizations, mechanics, material science

Biao Hu

School of Civil Engineering, Shenzhen University, Nanhai Ave 3688, Shenzhen, China
Composites materials and structures, durability, development of sustainable construction materials, recycling materials and technology, advanced materials in civil engineering, functional materials and structures

Yi-Chung Hu

Distinguished Professor, Department of Business Administration, Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan
Multiple criteria decision making, management science, data mining, management information systems

John Kechagias

School of Technology, Department of Forestry, Wood Science and Design (FWSD), University of Thessaly, Karditsa, Greece
Sustainable manufacturing, energy, processes, systems, optimization, materials, recycle, remanufacturing, lean manufacturing, green manufacturing

Tej Nath Lamichhane

OATI FBE Integration Engineer, Intel Corporation, USA
Clean energy technologies, permanent magnets, high-performance electrical motors, Lithium recovery and battery materials, and building insulation materials

James J.H. Liou

Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei 10608, Taiwan
Multi-criteria decision making, soft computing, data mining, risk management, transportation, supply chain management, service quality, safety sciences etc.

Guiwen Liu

School of Construction Management and Real Estate, Chongqing University, China
Urban renewal, Urban development, Sustainable construction management, Property investment and management, Smart city

Muhammad Maqbool

Department of Clinical & Diagnostic Sciences, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Optics & photonics, nanostructured materials, condensed matter physics, semiconductors, laser cavities, health physics, medical physics, radiation protection, materials for radiation shielding, quantum mechanical modeling in health sciences

Andrea Di Maria

Agro Bio-Tech Gembloux, University of Liege, Belgium
Sustainability assessment, life cycle assessment, materials life cycle, construction waste recycling

Radhouane Masmoudi

Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada
Concrete, advanced and recycled materials, high-performance hybrid structures

Rasoul Khayyam Nekouei

University of New South Wales, Australia
New Processes in Sustainability, Recycling of Electronic Waste (e-waste), Renewable Energies, Nano-materials, Electrochemistry

Erkan Oterkus

Department of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
Peridynamics, structural health monitoring, inverse finite element method (iFEM), additive manufacturing, aerospace structures, artificial intelligence/machine learning, biomechanics, bolted joints, bonded joints, computational hydrodynamics, corrosion damage, desalination, digital twin, energy storage, experimental hydrodynamics, extreme loading on structures, finite element analysis, fluid-structure interaction, fracture in lithium-ion batteries and fuel cells, fracture mechanics, high performance computing, hydraulic fracturing, hydrogen energy, ice-structure interactions, isogeometric analysis, material design, marine structures, mechanics of composite materials, mechanics of electronic packages, nanomechanics of materials, multi-physics analysis, multi-scale modeling of materials, nonlocal continuum mechanics, progressive damage analysis, semi-analytical methods, ships & offshore structures, soft materials, structural analysis of renewable energy devices, structural control of offshore wind turbines, underwater acoustics

Sergio A. Pacca

School of Arts, Sciences and Humanities (EACH), University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Renewable energy, climate change, mitigation, life cycle assessment, energy policy, sustainable development

Robert Pell

Founder and CEO of Minviro, Research Fellow in Camborne School of Mines, University of Exeter, Cornwall, United Kingdom
Sustainable development of mining and metal projects, life cycle assessment, rare earth elements, lithium, graphite

Martina Petranikova

Department of Chemistry and chemical Engineering, Industrial Materials Recycling, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden‎
Hydrometallurgy and thermal pre-treatment of the waste (pyrolysis, incineration) in a connection to hydrometallurgical treatment

Denis Prodius

Assistant Scientist, Ames Laboratory, USA
Materials science, recycling of rare-earth metals, ionic liquids

Orlando Rios

Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee, USA
Materials thermodynamics, additive manufacturing, alloy development, electrochemistry, electromagnetic processing

Maryam Salehi

Department of Civil Engineering, University of Memphis, USA
Material science and environmental, water chemistry, drinking water infrastructure and plastic pollutants fate

Shib Sankar Sana

Kishore Bharati Bhagini Nivedita College(Co-Ed), Behala, Kolkata-700060, India
Modelling of production planning and inventory control, biomathematics and soft computing related to business economics and management problems

Biswajit Sarkar

Department of Industrial Engineering, Yonsei University, South Korea
Operations research & supply chain management, optimization by artificial intelligence, environmental engineering & ecology, energy & biomathematics, renewable energy & non-linear programming, sustainability & reliability, smart production system & inventory management, advanced manufacturing system, control theory & graph theory

Dieuwertje Schrijvers

Project Manager, WeLOOP, France
Life cycle assessment, criticality assessment, primary and recycled materials

Xiaoguang Sun

Nanomaterials Chemistry Group, Oak Ridge National Lab, USA
Electrolytes, polymer electrolytes, novel salts, additives, rechargeable batteries

Ehsan Vahidi

Department of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno, USA
Metallurgical engineering and sustainability sciences, fundamental environmental engineering

Delia J. Valles-Rosales

Department of Industrial Management and Technology, Texas A&M University – Kingsville, USA
Sustainable manufacturing, systems modeling, waste and energy minimization, biomass conversion, additive manufacturing

Cristina Ventura

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Catania, 95125 Catania, Italy
Photovoltaic systems; forecasting for photovoltaic systems; photovoltaic/thermal systems; photovoltaic systems monitoring; fault detection in photovoltaic systems; distributed photovoltaic resources; distributed energy resources

Chao Wang

School of Economics and Management, Beijing University of Technology, China
Resource and environmental economics and policy analysis, policy impact of plastic waste, scrap metal, and rare earths

Hong Wang

College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
Microbiological processes and promote environmental sustainability in engineered systems, engineered water systems, soil environments

Xiao-Yong Wang

Department of Architectural Engineering and Department of Energy Infrastructure Engineering, Kangwon National University, South Korea
Low CO2 cement and concrete, composite structures, numerical modeling of concrete performance

Yue Wang

Cummins Inc., USA
Sustainable manufacturing, product quality design and improvement, artificial intelligence and data science in manufacturing

  Lian Zhang

Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering, Monash University, Australia
Low-emission clean combustion and waste incineration technology; Circular processing of solid waste for value-added product synthesis; Biomass/Waste to chemicals via advanced catalytic pyrolysis and gasification technologies; Carbon capture, storage and utilisation via mineralisation of industrial wastes; Synthesis of advanced adsorbents and catalysts from solid waste for the production of green hydrogen and bio-based chemicals (bio-degradable plastics) and fuels

Qian Zhang

Department of Mining, Queen's University, Canada
Low-carbon circular economy, material efficiency and criticality, sustainable urban systems, environmental justice, and systems engineering management

Renzun Zhao

Department of Civil Architectural & Environmental Engineering, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, USA
Environmental sustainability, water/wastewater and solid/hazardous waste


Staff Editor

Junlin Ma

Managing and Operation (Journal)