Sustainable Engineering

Yasar Demirel earned a Ph.D. degree in chemical engineering from the University of Birmingham, UK in 1981. He carried out research and scholarly work at the University of Delaware and at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg as a visiting professor. He has been on the faculty of the University of Nebraska, Lincoln since 2006. He has accumulated extensive teaching and research experience over the years in diverse fields of engineering. He taught process design and optimization at VT and UNL for more than 20 years. He currently serves as a professor at the chemical and biomolecular engineering department and teaches process design and thermodynamics at UNL. He is the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Thermodynamics. He authored and co-authored two books, four book chapters, and more than 160 research papers. The fourth edition of "Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics" was published in 2019 by Elsevier. The third edition of the book titled "Energy: Production, Conversion, Storage, Conservation, and Coupling was published in 2021 by Springer. He has obtained several awards, scholarships, and presented numerous invited seminars.