Sustainable Process Integration and Intensification

Prof Jiri Klemes has comprehensive experience in Process Integration, Computer Aided Design methods, PSE tools for environmental protection, sustainability, and greenhouse gases footprints reduction. Head of "Sustainable Process Integration Laboratory - SPIL", NETME Centre, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Brno University of Technology - VUT Brno, Czech Republic and Emeritus Professor at "Centre for Process Systems Engineering and Sustainability", Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest, Hungary.


Dr. Petar Sabev VARBANOV, is the Deputy Head of Centre for Process Integration and Intensification CPI2 at the Research Institute of Chemical and Process Engineering, University of Pannonia, Veszprém, Hungary.
He graduated from the University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy - Sofia, Bulgaria, worked for Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and a Bulgarian IT Company. In September 2000 he was awarded PhD scholarship in Process Integration at DPI UMIST supervised by Robin Smith. He won a Research Fellowship at Tyndall Centre for Research in Climate Change in Manchester. After graduation he was rewarded Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship at Technische Universität Berlin, Germany running two years research with Gunter Wozny. In 2007 he won another EC Marie Curie European Reintegration Grant and joined Jirí Klemes and Ferenc Friedler in Veszprém. He is a Scientic Secretary of PRES conferences.

Assoc Prof. Dr. Sharifah Rafidah Wan Alwi, CEng, MIChemE, is the Director of Process Systems Engineering Centre (PROSPECT) of Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Johor Bahru, Malaysia.
She graduated from UMIST, Manchester in 2003 and later completed her PhD study on Water Integration studies in 2006. Her PhD work has won the 2008 Prince Sultan Abdul Aziz International Water Award. She also won the Green Talents 2009 award from the Federal Ministry of Research Germany for her excellence in environmental research and was also among the five shortlisted