Untapped Thermal Energy and Waste Heat Utilization
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Science and Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 January 2024) | Viewed by 526
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Interests: energy; exergy and economic analyses; power plant design; optimization and dynamic modelling; waste heat recovery units; organic Rankine cycle; life cycle
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Interests: CHP; energy storage; thermal energy storage; waste heat recovery; ORC; LCA; operation of energy conversion plants and systems
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Interests: computational fluid dynamics; applied fluid dynamics; turbulent flows; wall-bounded flows; direct and large eddy simulations; wall-modelled large eddy simulations; high-performance computing; parallel computations; applied mathematics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The trend of increasing fossil fuel prices and the ever-increasing concerns over global warming and climate change are forcing governments, researchers and engineers working in industries to conceptualize, develop and install technologies and devices able to recover the waste heat coming from industrial processes, or the heat coming from the combination of naturally available and industrial processes.
The recovery of this waste heat is a challenging task, but can help in the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, and in the improvement of sites’ energy efficiency. In fact, with the adoption of the proper technologies, the harvesting of thermal heat can be not only a reliable method of converting waste heat into mechanical, thermal or electrical energy, but also a cost-effective opportunity to reduce losses and reduce industrial energy bills, especially if the systems are integrated with energy storage.
In this framework, this Special Issue aims to collect innovative and high-quality research focusing on the development and utilization of untapped thermal energy as well as the recovery and utilization of waste heat from industrial processes, renewable energy sources, naturally available heat, etc.
Prof. Dr. Alberto Benato
Prof. Dr. Anna Stoppato
Dr. Francesco De Vanna
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- renewable energy sources
- waste heat
- waste heat recovery technologies
- innovative energy systems
- steam and organic Rankine cycle
- industrial processes
- thermal energy harvesting
- energy storage technologies
- CHP technologies and systems
- industrial symbiosis for waste heat valorization
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