This book dedicates to publish exceptionally important and high-quality, agenda-setting research so as to tackle the key global and societal challenges of ensuring the provision of energy and protecting our environment for the future. The book appeals to chemical scientists, chemical and process engineers, energy researchers, bio-scientists, and environmental scientists from across academia, industry, and government. The scope is intentionally broad, and the book recognizes the complexity of issues and challenges relating to energy conversion and storage, alternative fuel technologies, and environmental science. The main topics of this book include but not limit to (1) alternative energy and the environment, (2) assessments of the condition of ecosystems and environmental quality, (3) behavior of and impacts of pollutants in atmosphere, soil, and water, (4) management of ecosystems, environment, and water resources, (5) modeling and regional environmental assessments (includes global change), (6) treatment/restoration of ecosystems, environment, and water resources, and (7) sustainable/renewable energy. All scales of studies and analysis, from impactful fundamental advances to interdisciplinary research across the (bio)chemical, (bio/geo) physical sciences, and chemical engineering disciplines are welcomed. So, this book is linked to the energy-environment nexus and is of significant general interest to our community-spanning readership.
Dr. Jianping Yang is an associate professor at Central South University in Changsha, China. His main research interests include advanced materials and technologies in environmental remediation, energy conversion, and pollutant recycling.
He has published more than 50 peer-reviewed SCI journal papers. These papers have cited in SCI journal papers for more than 1600 times, among which more than 1400 times are from other scholars. He has authorized 30 Chinese invention patents. His H-index is 28. He has been awarded the “Outstanding Oral Presentation” of The 8th International Conference on Combustion, Incineration Pyrolysis, Emission and Climate Change, and “Travel Grant” of 12th International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant. He has been selected as “World's Top 2% Scientists 2020”.
He has published two books as a co-editor and several chapters, such as
[1] Junying Zhang, Yongchun Zhao, Jing Liu, Hailong Li, Jianping Yang. Non-carbon adsorbents for mercury removal from coal-fired flue gas. Science Press, 2020.
[2] Yongchun Zhao, Hailong Li, Jianping Yang, Junying Zhang, Chuguang Zheng. Emission and Control of Trace Elements from Coal-Derived Flue Gas: Research, Advances and Studies. Elsevier, 2019.
[3] Jianping Yang, Yongchun Zhao, Junying Zhang, Chuguang Zheng. Oxy-Fuel Combustion: Fundamentals, Theory and Practice. Chapter 7 Mercury behavior and retention in oxyfuel combustion. 2018, 151-170.
