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ISBN 978-1-119-47909-3

Cover image: All images supplied by Dreamstime.com; Rainbow Smoke: Nantapong Kittisubsiri | Oil Drop: Amnat Buakeaw | Trees: Christos Georghiou |

Leaves: Nadezda Kostina I Orange Flower Wreath: Darya Smirnova

Cover design by Kris Hackerott

This book is dedicated to the three creative geniuses that I have been blessed to call ‘my children’. They are: Elif Hamida Islam, Ali Omar Islam, and Jaan Sulaiman Islam.

M. R. Islam

“But what good will another round of corefloods and recovery curves do?”, quipped a Chemical Engineering professor over 3 decades ago. For a graduate student, whose PhD thesis (in Petroleum Engineering) is devoted to enhanced oil recovery in marginal reservoirs, that comment struck me with mixed emotions. My PhD supervisor was someone I would later characterize as academia’s most impactful petroleum engineering professor. The project that I was working on at the time was well funded by the government and industry consortium (translation: it was anything but a stale academic exercise). Even at its initial phase, the project was proving to be an academic masterpiece (it eventually broke the record for refereed publications for a PhD dissertation – at least for that University). Yet, this project was reduced to a set of ‘corefloods and recovery curves’.

I had immense respect for the chemical engineering professor (I still do – to this date), with whom I had a number of ground-breaking publications (that emerged from classwork), so I couldn’t even garner enough courage to confront him or ask for an explanation. Fast forward a 2 decades, I was giving a pep talk to industry and government delegates on sustainable engineering, upon which a mechanical engineering professor turned into a quasi-administrator, with no background in energy research, exclaimed, “Why are you focusing so much on society, where is engineering?” Thankfully, it was the government partner that quieted down the vociferous colleague, schooling him, “I thought sustainability is all about society…”