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Hydrogen/formic acid production from natural gas with zero carbon dioxide emissions

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jngse.2017.11.003

Pena Lopez, Jorge A. ; Somiari, Ibubeleye ; Manousiouthakis, Vasilios I. ( January 2018 , Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering)

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Process intensification of reactive separator networks through the IDEAS conceptual framework

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compchemeng.2016.12.006

da Cruz, Flavio Eduardo ; Manousiouthakis, Vasilios I. ( October 2017 , Computers & Chemical Engineering)

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An ecological application of sustainability and sustainizability over sets

https://doi.org/10.1002/ep.13336

Jorat, Masih ; Zhu, Li ; Manousiouthakis, Vasilios I. ( September 2019 , Environmental Progress & Sustainable Energy)

Abstract
The sustainability over sets and sustainizability over sets concepts have been recently introduced as sustainable system analysis and synthesis tools, respectively, with broad flexibility in incorporating human input. In this work, these two concepts are applied to an ecological food web system, describing the flow of biomass among different organisms of an ecosystem with 10 compartments aggregated in five trophic levels. The obtained results first show that this ecosystem is not sustainable over any set, imposing upper and lower numerical bounds on the population of each species, and accounting for sinusoidal variations in plant growth. It is subsequently established that the system can be sustainized over such sets through appropriate external actions.
Statement of industrial relevance
By presenting a mathematical viewpoint for ecological sustainability of food web structures, the presented article can be informative to researchers working on environmental sustainability, and in particular on assessing and ensuring the sustainability of processes involving microbial populations and remediation/treatment of solid or aqueous waste processes.

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Sustainability Over Sets

https://doi.org/10.1002/ep.12761

Manousiouthakis, Vasilios I. ; Jorat, Masih ( May 2018 , Environmental Progress & Sustainable Energy)