Professor Dr Dominic CY Foo, Director for the Centre of Excellence for Green Technologies (CEGT), was invited to launch his book at the Process System Engineering Conference (PSE China) at Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China (27-29 July 2016). The book was a Chinese translation of the English textbook Process Integration for Resource Conservation, published by Professor Foo in 2012 with CRC Press/Taylor and Francis
The Chinese edition was translated by a team from Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, China. The team consisted of Dr Xiaoping Jia, postgraduate student Zhiwei Li, and Dr Fang Wang, all from the School of Environment and Safety Engineering.
The book launch attracted interest from many academics.
About the book
In recent years, industrial resource conservation, such as the recovery of water, industrial gases and solvent wastes, has received much attention among both academia and industrial practitioners. This is mainly due to the scarcity of resources, rising cost of materials and waste treatment, as well as the awareness of sustainable development goals. Hence, this textbook serves as good teaching material for final year undergraduate and postgraduate students in chemical, environmental and energy engineering courses. The textbook focuses on state-of-the-art process integration techniques, such as pinch analysis and mathematical optimisation.
About Dominic Foo
Professor of Process Design and Integration at the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering at UNMC, Dr Foo is the founder of Centre of Excellence for Green Technologies at UNMC. He is an active member of professional engineering bodies in Malaysia and the UK. He has published three books and more than 110 papers in international refereed journals. He is also the Editor-in-Chief for Process Integration and Optimisation for Sustainability (Springer), and Subject Editor for Process Safety & Environmental Protection (Elsevier), among others. He was the winner of the 2009 Innovator of the Year Award (Institute of Chemical Engineers – IChemE), 2010 Young Engineer Award (Institute of Engineers Malaysia – IEM), 2012 Outstanding Young Malaysian Award, 2013 Society of Chemical Engineers Japan (SCEJ) Award for Outstanding Asian Researcher and Engineer, and 2016 Top Research Scientist Malaysia (Academy of Science Malaysia – ASM).
(Article image caption: Photo taken during the book launch event, with Prof Foo (left) holding his textbook of the English version, and Dr Jia (right) with the translated version)
More information is available from Professor Dr Dominic CY Foo on Dominic.Foo@nottingham.edu.my or Josephine Dionisappu, PR & Communications Manager at The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus on josephine.dionisappu@nottingham.edu.my.
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Posted on 5th August 2016