Process Systems Engineering Tools for Industrial Decarbonization

Dominic Foo is a Professor of Process Design and Integration at the University of Nottingham Malaysia and is the Founding Director for the Centre of Excellence for Green Technologies. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE), Fellow of the Academy of Sciences Malaysia (ASM), Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Malaysia (IEM), Chartered Engineer (CEng) with the Engineering Council UK, Professional Engineer (PEng) with the Board of Engineer Malaysia (BEM), ASEAN Chartered Professional Engineers (ACPE), as well as the President for the Asia Pacific Confederation of Chemical Engineering (APCChE). He is top 1% world-renowned scientist according to Stanford List, working in process integration for resource conservation and CO2 reduction. Professor Foo is an active author, with eight books, more than 190 journal papers and made more than 240 conference presentations, with more than 30 keynote/plenary speeches. Professor Foo is the Editor-in-Chief for Process Integration and Optimization for Sustainability (Springer Nature), Subject Editor for Process Safety & Environmental Protection (Elsevier), and editorial board members for several other renowned journals. He is the winners of the Innovator of the Year Award 2009 of IChemE, Young Engineer Award 2010 of IEM, Outstanding Young Malaysian Award 2012 of Junior Chamber International (JCI), Outstanding Asian Researcher and Engineer 2013 (Society of Chemical Engineers, Japan), and Top Research Scientist Malaysia 2016 (ASM). Raymond Tan is a full professor of chemical engineering, University Fellow and current Vice-Chancellor for Research and Innovation at De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines. His main areas of research are process systems engineering (PSE) and process integration (PI). Professor Tan received his BS and MS degrees in chemical engineering and PhD in mechanical engineering from De La Salle University. He has authored more than 220 Scopus-listed publications and is co-editor-in-chief of Process Integration and Optimization for Sustainability (Springer/Nature), subject editor of Sustainable Production and Consumption (Elsevier/IChemE), and an editorial board member of Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy (Springer/Nature) and Int. J. of Supply Chain and Operations Resilience (Inderscience). He is also editor of the books Recent Advances in Sustainable Process Design and Optimization (World Scientific) and Process Design Strategies for Biomass Conversion Systems (Wiley). John Frederick D. Tapia is an associate professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines. He develops research on optimization tools such as for carbon, capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) and oil palm value chain.


The team has a combined H-index of 113. It is composed of a junior faculty (Dr. Tapia) whose experience is on the development of mathematical tools for planning and design of industrial systems such as CCUS, and oil palm value chain, and two professors (Prof Tan and Prof Foo) with extensive experience as editors on process integration and optimizations. Their background in industrial decarbonization research (e.g., CCUS, bioenergy, etc.) enables the development of high-quality book chapters that, together create a collection of systematic tools for industrial decarbonization.