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Acknowledgments

e acknowledge the support from the European
Community–funded project entitled “Integrated Waste to
WEnergy Management to Prevent Global Warming,” or
INEMAGLOW. We would like to thank Prof. Robin Smith and
Mr. Simon Perry from the University of Manchester for numerous
discussions about the finer points of PI and optimization
methodology. We also acknowledge with much gratitude the input
of all collaborators who contributed to this book. Their dedication,
timely responses, and willingness to accept editorial comments and
suggestions are greatly appreciated. We received invaluable help
from the staff of the Faculty of Information Technology at the
University of Pannonia in Hungary: Dr. Rozália Pigler-Lakner,
Dr. István Heckl, Dr. Boton Bertók, Dr. Zoltán Süle, Mr. Máté
Hegyháti, and Ms. Adrienn Sas. Substantial contributions were also
made by Hon Loong Lam—林汉龙 and Zsófia Fodor, Ph.D. students
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at CPI .
Special thanks go to colleagues and close collaborators
worldwide who shared their latest methodologies and case studies.
It would be impossible to list all those involved, but we should like
to mention a few: Prof. L. T. Fan, Department of Chemical
Engineering, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, USA; Dr.
Dominic C. Y. Foo, Department of Chemical and Environmental
Engineering, University of Nottingham, Malaysia Campus; Prof.
Zdravko Kravanja, Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
University of Maribor, Slovenia; Prof. Valentin Ples¸u, Centre for
Technology Transfer for the Process Industries, Department of
Chemical Engineering, University POLITEHNICA, Bucharest; and
Prof. Petr Stehlík, Brno University of Technology, Institute of
Process and Environmental Engineering, UPEI VUT Brno, the
Czech Republic.
The authors appreciate the editing and production efforts of the
following people: Taisuke Soda, Michael Penn, Stephen Smith,
Richard Ruzycka, and Michael Mulcahy of McGraw-Hill, and
Aloysius Raj and the staff at Newgen.
It has been a great pleasure for us to work with all of you.

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