Energy Efficiency: The Key to Sustainable Development
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2025 | Viewed by 444
Special Issue Editors
Interests: thermal engineering (combined cooling, heat and power–trigeneration and polygeneration); marine engineering and power plants; refrigeration and air conditioning; heat recovery; energy conversion; combustion engines and power plants greening; heat and mass transfer (two-phase flows); heat exchangers
Interests: marine engineering and power plants; thermal engineering; heat recovery; exhaust boilers (low temperature condensation, economizers); combustion engines and power plants greening; emulsion fuels
Interests: trigeneration and integrated power plants; marine engineering and power plants; thermal engineering (combined cooling; heat and power-trigeneration); heat recovery; energy conversion; combustion engines and power plants greening; combustion engine's and electrical motor's cooling
Interests: heat transfer; heat exchangers; phase-change materials; 3D printing; TPMS
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
It is our pleasure to announce a new Special Issue of Sustainability entitled “Energy Efficiency: The Key to Sustainable Development”. Growing energy demand, global warming, and shortage of fossil fuels are real problems for Sustainable Development that require urgent solutions. The key solution to these problems lies in rational designing accompanied by forecasted management adaptable to conflicting challenges and constraints for sustainable energy saving and environmentally friendly operation of conventional energy plants, as well as renewable energy plants, as boosting or autonomous ones to cover the unsustainable patterns of gap between consumption and production with minimum emissions due to innovative cross-disciplinary approaches, hypotheses, and concepts at the core of perfect strategies and advanced trends in sustainable energetics through thermal stabilization and greening of energy plants, combined cooling, heat and power (CCHP), or trigeneration, including refrigeration and air conditioning, polygeneration as a whole for stationary and transport applications, conversion of heat emissions to different types of energy by applying highly efficient energy transformers, heat exchangers with mitigated instabilities and enhanced heat transfer, regeneration and thermal storages, alternative fuels, renewable resources, and other advanced findings.
This Special Issue has a wide scope and covers a broad range of Energy Efficiency to provide Sustainable Development-related topics.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome.
Research areas may include (but not limited to) the following:
- Sustainable designing and operation;
- Energy management;
- Polygeneration;
- Energy conversion;
- Sustainable refrigeration, air conditioning, heat pumps, and heat exchangers;
- Renewable energy;
- Combined power plant;
- Alternative fuels and working fluids.
Prof. Dr. Mykola Radchenko
Dr. Victoria Kornienko
Prof. Dr. Andrii Radchenko
Prof. Dr. Marcin Kruzel
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sustainable designing
- energy management
- polygeneration
- refrigeration
- air conditioning
- energy conversion
- heat exchanger
- renewable energy
- combined power plant
- greening
- alternative fuels
- working fluids
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