Advanced Sustainable Industrial Heating: Technologies and Applications
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "J: Thermal Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 5 June 2025 | Viewed by 8217
Special Issue Editors
Interests: thermal energy storage and conversion; waste heat recovery; industrial decarbonisation; process heating
Interests: energy engineering; engineering thermodynamics; thermal engineering; fluid dynamics
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Dear Colleagues,
More than half of GHG emissions from industry result from heating processes. Additionally, up to 70% of industrial energy occurs in the form of heat. In this context, several technological solutions are under development with a potential role as game-changers in decarbonisation at an industrial scale.
This Special Issue aims to explore the latest research on industrial decarbonisation, particularly for industrial heating, and to identify technologies supporting decision makers to integrate technological solutions into shaping new energy infrastructure and setting policy frameworks on energy security and net zero. Potential technologies include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Electrification, e.g., heat pumps;
- Alternative fuels, e.g., low-carbon hydrogen;
- Renewable energy sources for heating;
- Thermal energy storage and the role in elevating heating processes;
- Industrial heating networks;
- Policy and regulation and business models;
- Advanced materials for enhanced thermal efficiency;
- Application of AI in low-carbon industrial heating;
- Other emerging heating technologies.
Dr. Pouriya H. Niknam
Dr. Lorenzo Talluri
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- industrial decarbonisation
- Low-Caron heating
- industrial heating
- waste heat recovery
- thermal energy storage
- renewable energy integration
- electrification
- hydrogen
- alternative fuels
- thermal efficiency
- heat pumps
- net zero
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