About the Editors

Trevor M. Letcher is Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He is a past director of the International Association of Chemical Thermodynamics and his research involves the thermodynamics of liquid mixtures and energy from landfill. He has published over 270 publications in peer review journals and edited, written or co-edited 13 books related to his research fields. His latest books are: Materials for a Sustainable Future (RSC, 2012), Unraveling Environmental Disasters (Elsevier, 2012), Future Energy: Improved, Sustainable and Clean Options for our Planet, 2nd edition (Elsevier, 2013) and Volumes Properties: Liquids, Solutions and Vapours (RSC, 2014).

Janet L. Scott is a Training Director at the Centre for Sustainable Chemical Technologies (CSCT), University of Bath. She has previously worked in both industry and academia in three different countries: South Africa (University of Cape Town, 1992–1995; R&D Manager, Fine Chemicals Corporation, 1996–1998); Australia (Monash University 1999–2006) where she was the deputy director of the Centre for Green Chemistry; and the UK, where she held a Marie Curie Senior Transfer of Knowledge Fellowship at Unilever R&D, Port Sunlight, UK (2006–2008). She maintains an active consulting company working with industry on sustainable chemical solutions and research interests currently centre on bio-derived chemicals and materials. She works closely with chemical engineers and industrial partners at CSCT.

Darrell A. Patterson is currently a senior lecturer in chemical engineering and a member of the Centre for Sustainable Chemical Technologies (CSCT) at the University of Bath. He leads the Bath Process Intensification Laboratory and the cross-faculty Bath Membrane research cluster Membranes@Bath, the UK's largest academic cluster of academics focusing on membrane science and technology research. He has previously worked at WS Atkins Consultants (2001–2003), Imperial College London (2003–2005) and the University of Auckland (2005–2011). His research is in three main (but related) areas, all aiming to characterise and produce process intensification to develop more sustainable technologies: membrane science and engineering; catalytic reactions and reactor engineering; and wastewater treatment technologies. He has over 70 papers in these areas (including over 40 peer reviewed journal papers).