Hongyue Jin

About

Hongyue Jin is an associate professor in the Department of Systems and Industrial Engineering at the University of Arizona. Her research focuses on techno-economic analysis, life cycle assessment, and optimization of technologies, processes, and supply chains toward sustainability. Her work has been applied to clean energy products and processes, including value recovery of critical materials such as rare earth elements, lithium, and cobalt, as well as sustainable construction materials aimed at reducing carbon footprints. She serves as deputy of the Crosscutting Research Focus Area at the Critical Materials Innovation (CMI) Hub, which is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies Office. Jin is also the founder and co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Clean Technologies & Recycling and an associate editor in the Environment Area of the INFORMS Journal of Operations Research. Her academic background includes a PhD in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University, where she researched sustainable value recovery of rare earth magnets, and a master's degree in Industrial & Systems Engineering from KAIST in Korea. Her teaching interests include Financial Modeling for Innovation and Life Cycle Analysis for Sustainable Design and Engineering. Jin has received numerous awards recognizing her contributions to research, innovation, and education, including the Peterson Family…

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Business
• Engineering
• Mathematics
• Mathematical optimization
• Waste management
• Operations research
• Algorithm
• Organic chemistry
• Mechanical engineering

Selected publications

• Techno-Economic and Life Cycle Assessments for Sustainable Rare Earth Recovery from Coal Byproducts using Biosorption

  ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering · 2020 · 69 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  Coal byproducts could be a promising feedstock to alleviate the supply risk of critical rare earth elements (REEs) due to their abundance and REE content. Herein, we investigated the economic and environmental potential of producing REEs from coal fly ash and lignite through an integrated process of leaching, biosorption, and oxalic precipitation on the basis of experimental data and modeling results. Two microbe immobilization systems (polyethylene glycol diacrylate (PEGDA) microbe beads and Si…

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• A Multiobjective Disassembly Planning for Value Recovery and Energy Conservation From End-of-Life Products

  IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering · 2020 · 50 citations

  Demanufacturing aims to recover value and conserve energy from end-of-life (EOL) products, contributing to sustainable manufacturing. To make the full use of EOL products, they are usually disassembled into components that have different values and embodied energy at different EOL options. This article studies a disassembly planning (DP) that integrates the decisions on disassembly sequence and EOL strategy to maximize the recovered value and energy conservation from EOL products. We propose a m…

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• Resilient NdFeB magnet recycling under the impacts of COVID-19 pandemic: Stochastic programming and Benders decomposition

  Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review · 2021 · 44 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding
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• Electrochemical leaching of critical materials from lithium-ion batteries: A comparative life cycle assessment

  Resources Conservation and Recycling · 2023-03-21 · 41 citations

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• A comparative techno-economic analysis of combined oil and power production from pyrolysis and co-pyrolysis plants utilizing rice straw and scrap rubber tires

  Fuel · 2023-05-11 · 33 citations

  articleOpen accessSenior author
  PublisherOA PDFDOI

Frequent coauthors

• Apurba Kumar Saha

  27 shared

• Nighat Afroz Chowdhury

  Rogers (United States)

  26 shared

• Majid Alipanah

  Rogers (United States)

  24 shared

• John W. Sutherland

  19 shared

• Vicki S. Thompson

  14 shared

• David W. Reed

  Idaho National Laboratory

  14 shared

• Yoshiko Fujita

  12 shared

• Yongqin Jiao

  Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  11 shared

Awards & honors

• Peterson Family Outstanding Early Career Faculty Award Unive…
• Woman of Impact Research, Innovation & Impact at the Univers…
• Leadership Academy Cohort Critical Materials Institute, Spri…
• Deputy Lead, Crosscutting Research Critical Materials Instit…
• Rising Star in LCA American Center for Life Cycle Assessment…

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