The conference on ‘Substantial Materials Processing and Manufacturing (SMPM)’ aims to bring together scientists, researchers, and companies to attend and share their vision, ideas, recent developments as well as advanced scientific and technical knowledge in the field of materials processing and manufacturing. The conference is concerned with sustainable engineering, life cycle engineering, sustainable manufacturing systems and technologies, sustainable materials and processing, sustainable product design and development, sustainable supply chain and business models, renewable energy and sustainable development, Industry 4.0 and Internet of Things, modelling and simulation of sustainable manufacturing, intelligent agricultural equipment, etc. The conference has invited some academicians and research leaders in related fields to give the keynote report. Based on the theme of this book, eighteen outstanding and high-quality manuscripts have been selected for the publication in this book. The detailed information is presented below.

Professor Lin Zhu

is a professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Anhui Agricultural University, P, R. China, He received his PhD in Precision Machinery and Precision Instrumentation from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), specialising in flowing characteristics and structural analysis of a silicon-based micro-combustor, And he was ever a postdoctoral research associated in mechanical engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and a visiting scholar of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, respectively. The main research interests of Professor Lin Zhu are focussed on the following three aspects: (1) performances and structures of plants and animals using mechanical Engineering Methods. (2) optimisation structures and performances of mechanical components, and (3) micro-fluids and micro-structure. He also has an interest in additive manufacturing technologies including laser-based manufacturing and fused deposition modelling. He has received several competitive grants for his research, including those from the National Science Foundation of China (NSFC). Currently, he has over 80 publications and has written three books. Professor Lin Zhu mentors several postgraduate students in the field of fluid mechanics. He is currently supervising five masters and one PhD students on liquid-solid interaction. spray mechanism, and additive manufacturing, He is a member of the Vibration Society of China.

Professor T. C. Jen

was a faculty member at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, and then joined the University of Johannesburg in August 2015. Prof Jen received his PhD in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from UCLA, specialising in thermal aspects of grinding. He has received several competitive grants for his research, including those from the US National Science Foundation, the US Department of Energy and the EPA. Dr Jen has brought in $3.0 million of funding for his research, and has received various awards for his research including the NSF GOALI Award. Prof Jen has recently established a Joint Research Centre with Nanjing Tech University of China on the “Sustainable Materials and Manufacturing.” Prof Jen is also the director of Manufacturing Research Centre of the University of Johannesburg. Meanwhile, SA National Research Foundation has awarded Prof Jen a NNEP (National Nano Equipment Program) grant worth of USD l million to acquire two state-of-the-art Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) Tools for ultra-thin film coating. These two ALD tools will be the first in South Africa and possibly the first in Africa continent. In 2011.Prof Jen was elected as a fellow to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), which recognised his contributions to the field of thermal science and manufacturing. As stated in the announcement of Prof Jen fellow status in the 2011 International Mechanical Engineering and Congress Exposition, “Tien-Chien Jen has made extensive contribution to the field of mechanical engineering, specifically in the area of machining process. Examples include, but not limited to, environmentally benign machining, atomic layer deposition, cold gas dynamics spraying, fuel cells and hydrogen technology, batteries, and material processing.” Prof Jen has written a total of 198 peer-reviewed articles, including 84 peer-reviewed journal papers, published in many prestigious journals such as International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, and ASME Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering, He also has written many chapters in special topics book, for example, a chapter in Numerical Simulation Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell, published by WIT Press, and another chapter in Application of Lattice Boltzmann Method in Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer in Computational Fluid Dynamics-Technology and Application.