CRC Press Solutions for Sustainable Development: Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Engineering Solutions for Sustainable Development (ICESSD 2019), October 3-4, 2019, Miskolc, Hungary

The first International Conference on Engineering Solutions and Sustainable Development which is organized by the University of Miskolc, Hungary is a significant and timely initiative creating the capacity of engineering students, educators, practicing engineers and industries to demonstrate values, problem solving skills, knowledge, and attitude that are required to apply the principles of sustainable development throughout their professional career.The aim of the ICESSD conference was creating an interdisciplinary platform for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, and concerns as well as practical challenges encountered and solutions adopted in the fields of Technical and Environmental Science. The conference covers the following topics: Process Engineering, Modelling and Optimisation Sustainable and Renewable Energy and Energy Engineering Waste Management and Reverse Logistics Environmental Management and Ecodesign Circular Economy and Life Cycle Approaches Smart Manufacturing and Smart Buildings Innovation and Efficiency Earth Science Academics, scientists, researchers and professionals from different countries and continents have contributed to this book. About the Author Dr Klára Szita Tóthné is a retired Professor at the Faculty of Economics Institute of World and Regional Economics at the University of Miskolc. She graduated as a chemist and as an environmental engineer. She received her doctorate (Dr. univ.) with the dissertation "Enrichment of carbonate manganese ores with sulphating and reducing roasting" in 1986 at the University of Attila József in Szeged. She wrote her C.Sc. (PhD) dissertation about "Some questions about foundation of food industrial environmental management" and she has been a candidate (PhD) of economic science at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS) in 1995. She made the habilitation process in 2008. From 1989 she taught food technology and environmental economics more than 10 years at Faculty College of Food Industry in Szeged and from 2001 she worked at University of Miskolc, she had been professor since 2010. Her main research fields are environmental economics, assessment of sustainable performance, life cycle assessment and future studies. She is a Founding Member and now the legal representative as president of the LCA Center Association. She has membership in different scientific and professional organisations. She has more than 230 scientific publications and 100 independent citations. Dr Károly Jármai is a Professor at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Informatics at the University of Miskolc, where he graduated as a mechanical engineer (1978) and received his doctorate (1979). He teaches design of steel structures, welded structures, composite structures and optimization in Hungarian and in the English language. His research interests include structural optimization, mathematical programming techniques, and expert systems. He wrote his CSc. (PhD) dissertation at the Hungarian Academy of Science in 1988, became a European Engineer (Eur. Ing. FEANI, Paris) in 1990, and got his habilitation at Miskolc in 1995. Having successfully defended his doctor of technical science thesis (DSc.) in 1995. He subsequently received awards from the Engineering for Peace Foundation in 1997 and a scholarship as Széchenyi Professor between 1997–2000. He is the co-author of 4 books in English, 3 books in Hungarian and has published over 593 professional papers, lecture notes, chapters and conference papers. He has about 857 independent citations. He is a Founding Member of International Society for Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization (ISSMO), a Hungarian delegate, Vice Chairman of commission XV, and a Subcommission Chairman XV-F of International Institute of Welding (IIW). He has held several leading positions in GTE (Hungarian Scientific Society of Mechanical Engineers) and has been the P