Yaşar Demirel earned a PhD 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 three 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 published in 2021 by Springer. He has obtained several awards, scholarships, and presented numerous invited seminars

Abel Hernandez-Guerrero is a professor of Mechanical Engineering at University of Guanajuato in Mexico. BS University of Guanajuato; MS and PhD from Oregon State University. He has more than 350 publications in the fields of energy, thermodynamics, heat transfer, and energy systems analysis. Dr. Hernandez has been the advisor of 118 theses degrees at the three levels: PhD, MS and BS. Has served on several editorial boards: Energy, the International Journal; International Journal of Thermodynamics; ASME Journal of Energy Resources Technology; International Journal of Exergy; International Journal of Energy Research; and ASME International Journal of Fuel Cell Technology. Professor Hernandez is Pi Tau Sigma Honorary Member, ASME Fellow, and is a former ASME Advanced Energy Systems Division Chair. Mexican Society of Mechanical Engineering Former President. Member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences, Mexican Academy of Engineering, and has the top level in the Mexican System of Researchers.

Yaşar Demirel earned a PhD 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 three 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 published in 2021 by Springer. He has obtained several awards, scholarships, and presented numerous invited seminars