**About the Editors**

### **Pei Liu**

Dr. Pei Liu is an Associate Professor at Department of Energy and Power Engineering. He obtained his PhD in Process Systems Engineering from Imperial College London in 2009. His research interest lies in energy systems engineering, where he uses methodologies of process systems engineering to model, simulate, and optimize the design and operation of complex energy systems. He has developed a series of methods and tools for optimal design of polygeneration energy systems, distributed energy systems, energy systems in buildings, hydrogen infrastructure planning, optimal design of pipelines network for carbon dioxide transport at supercritical state, power sector planning with constraints of carbon dioxide emissions, and coal supply chain planning with constraints of water resources. He has authored/co-authored more than 200 papers in international peer-reviewed journals and conferences, with more than 3000 citations. He has co-authored two books on energy systems engineering published by Springer, and more than ten book chapter contributions published by Springer, Elsevier, and others. He is a subject editor of the journal *Chemical Engineering Research and Design*, and an editorial board member of the journals *Computers and Chemical Engineering, Processes, Frontiers in Chemical Engineering*, and others. He leads projects funded by the National Science Foundation of China, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the European Commission, Energy Foundation, and several projects from the industry, including BP, Siemens, and Toyota.

### **Ming Liu**

Prof. Ming Liu received his PhD degree in Power Engineering and Engineering Thermo-Physics from Xi'an Jiaotong University in 2013. His research interests are the optimization and control of energy power systems, including thermal system optimization, load cycling and frequency regulation control strategy of thermal power plants, energy saving, and heat and power decoupling of combined heat and power plants. He has authored over 130 peer-reviewed papers and 70 patents, and some technologies have been applied.

### **Xiao Wu**

Xiao Wu is an associate professor and doctoral supervisor at School of Energy and Environment, Southeast University. He received his B.S. degree and Ph.D. degree in Energy information and Automation in Southeast University, Nanjing, China, in 2008 and 2014. Since 2019, he has been a visiting professor in Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering in the University of Sheffield, UK.

Prof. Wu has been an investigator in over 20 research grants with funding from European Union, Royal Society, NSFC, MOST and Industry. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers including Applied Energy, Energy, Fuel, IEEE Trans. Energy Conversion. He has been awarded by the Jiangsu Outstanding Youth Foundation, Royal Society-Sino-British Trust International Fellow, Excellent young scholar of Jiangsu Engineering Thermophysics Society, Young Science and Technology Talents of Jiangsu Province in the last three years. His main research area is in Process Systems Engineering for Energy and Environment, including Process Modelling, Simulation, Control and Optimization, Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI), Power PlantsCarbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) and Integrated Energy System (IES).
