Fundamentals and Advances in Sustainable Energy Processes and Applications

Lina María Grajales Agudelo is Assistant Professor IV at the Federal University of Tocantins (UFT) in Brazil. She is part of the undergraduate course in Food Engineering and the Graduate Program in Digital Agroenergy, and works on the development of bioreactors for solid-state fermentation aimed at producing biofuels using agro-industrial residues as substrates. Dr. Grajales Agudelo is the Coordinator of the Support Group for Foreigners (GAE) and the leader of the "Bioreactor Engineering" (GeBio) Research Group at the same university. She is a chemical engineer who graduated from the National University of Colombia (UNAL) and holds a master's and doctoral degree in Engineering and Food Science respectively, both from São Paulo State University (UNESP), Brazil. Her dissertation and thesis focused on the development of rotary drum bioreactors for solid-state fermentation. She co-edited a book on Agroenergy with Elsevier, which published in 2023.Dr. Hailei Wang is an Associate Professor in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at Utah State University in the United States, and Director of the Energy Technology Research & Innovation (eTRI) Lab. He has broad research expertise in heat transfer and advanced energy system modeling. His work has been funded by various US federal agencies including the NRC, DOD, and several DOE offices such as the Office of Nuclear Energy, Solar Energy Technology Office, ARPA-E, the Building Technology Office, and the Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Program. His energy system research and thermal modeling work has also been supported by various corporations including Cummins, Medtronic, Thermo Fisher, and NuScale Power. Dr. Wang has published over 60 journal and conference papers, and holds 3 granted patents as well as multiple patent applications.

• 1. Overview of sustainable energy resourcesSECTION I: PILLARS OF CURRENT SUSTAINABLE ENERGY RESOURCES2. Solar energy: The fastest growth in renewable energy3. Harnessing water power: Hydropower and marine energy technologies and applications4. Wind: Recent developments in wind energy5. Nuclear energy: Advanced nuclear reactors and integrated nuclear-renewable energy systems6. Application of geothermal systems for energy efficiency in industrySECTION II: EMERGING BIOENERGY AND AGROENERGY7. Biofuels: Ethanol production8. Biorefinery: Obtaining biofuels from photosynthetic aquatic organisms9. Agroenergy: Biotechnological applications in the study and development of agroenergy crops10. Bioenergy production technologies11. Bioenergy via fermentation: Fermentation, gas for energy12. Biogas: Design, operation, and production of biogasSECTION III: CROSS-CUTTING TECHNOLOGIES AND ENERGY RESOURCES13. AI for sustainable energy14. Carbon capture, storage, and utilization15. Carbon-free hydrogen: Green hydrogen and synthetic fuels16. Synfuels: Production processes of renewable aviation fuel17. Integrating renewable energy: Electrical impact on distribution and transmission grids18. Techno-economic analysis of renewable energy technologies19. Opportunities and challenges of renewable energy sources