Advances and Challenges in the Development of Energy Efficiency in Hydraulic and Pneumatic Systems
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "K: State-of-the-Art Energy Related Technologies".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 March 2025 | Viewed by 762
Special Issue Editors
Interests: fluid power drives and controls; mechatronics engineering; production process automation
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Interests: pneumatic power drives and controls; mechatronics engineering; fuzzy-logic control; pneumatic manipulators
Interests: fluid power drives and controls; mechatronics engineering; adaptive control; hydraulic manipulators
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Hydraulic and pneumatic systems, including compressed air systems, are integral to the field of fluid power systems, employing pumps, compressors, actuators, valves, and various other components to perform a wide range of tasks across industries such as automotive, aerospace, construction, machine engineering, robotics, automation, and power engineering. Fluid power systems use the properties of fluids (hydraulic oil and compressed air) to transmit power, control, and drive machines and devices. Hydraulic and pneumatic systems are simple and easy to control, economical and safe to operate.
In recent years, hydraulic and pneumatic system research has undergone tremendous expansion in various categories, such as energy regeneration, energy storage, energy recovery, energy harvesting, waste energy recovery, energy loss reduction, and hybridization. The development of hydraulic and pneumatic systems is focused on energy efficiency, optimizing and increasing energy efficiency, and minimizing energy losses. With the wide use of hydraulic and pneumatic systems, especially high-powered machinery, there is great interest in research on energy-saving measures and strategies due to energy costs, environmental regulations, etc.
In hydraulic and pneumatic systems, there exists great potential to increase energy efficiency by reducing losses and minimizing energy consumption, as well as energy recovery and storage. The energy efficiency of hydraulic and pneumatic systems (compressed air systems) is the main element of many countries' energy policy. The main task in the optimal implementation of energy saving programs is to establish technical reference points, evaluate cost-effective energy savings, and track market trends.
This Special Issue aims to present and disseminate the most recent advances, challenges, and developments related to the theory, design, modeling, application, control, drives, and energy efficiency of all types of fluid power systems.
Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Smart fluid power systems: smart power technology, smart components, and smart sensors.
- Fluid power system in mechatronics solution: servo-drive control systems, manipulators and robots, autonomous tracked undercarriage, lifting and levelling units, grippers, etc.
- Fluid power systems in industrial solutions: direct driven systems, energy storage, energy regeneration, energy harvesting, and energy recovery.
- Fluid power systems in the renewable energy sector: wind power, wave energy converters, marine current power, and solar power.
- Fluid power systems in drive hybridization, energy transmission, energy recovery, and energy storage.
- Fluid power systems in environmental aspects: water control technology, noise and vibration elimination, safety and reliability, fault analysis, and diagnostics.
Prof. Dr. Ryszard Dindorf
Prof. Dr. Jakub Takosglu
Prof. Dr. Piotr Wos
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- hydraulic systems
- pneumatic systems
- applications
- advances
- challenges
- development
- modeling
- design
- control
- energy efficient
- energy storage
- energy regeneration
- energy recycling
- energy harvesting
- hybrid systems
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