Dr. Yaşar Demirel is currently on the faculty in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at University of Nebraska Lincoln. He received his PhD from the University of Birmingham, UK in 1981. His main area of work during the past 30 years has been energy science and thermodynamics, such as process design and optimization, techno economic analysis, sustainability analysis, ... Read moreequilibrium and nonequilibrium thermodynamics, and exergy analysis. He carried out research and scholarly work at the University of Delaware between 1999 and 2001 and worked at Virginia Tech as a visiting Professor between 2002 and 2006 before joining the University of Nebraska Lincoln in 2006. He is the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Thermodynamics. Dr. Demirel authored and co-authored four books, two book chapters, and more than 100 research papers in reputed international journals. Show Less