Latest Trends in Development and Demonstration of Clean Energy Technologies for Sustainable Energy Production
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2021) | Viewed by 13578
Special Issue Editors
Interests: Solar thermal, Alternative fuels, Hydrogen Energy, Combustion, Multi-phase flows, Heat Transfer, Chemical Reactor Development, CFD, Fluid-dynamic, Laser diagnostics
Interests: Solar thermal energy storage, Carbon capture and storage, Chemical looping, Energy systems, Energy management, Transport phenomena, Thermodynamics, Multi-phase reactions
Interests: entrained-flow gasification of solid fuels; dynamics of multi-phase flows; fluidization and fluidized bed systems; chemical reaction engineering; reactor design and operation; heterogeneous reaction kinetics; fluidized bed machining of mechanical parts
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Dear Colleagues,
Innovation in clean energy technology is essential to contribute to global efforts to reduce GHG emissions and for the establishment of a prosperous, low-carbon economy. To achieve a rapid deployment of renewables into the energy market, it is necessary to develop technologies that are both efficient and can achieve the same economies of scale that have been achieved in established processes. Presently, renewable, clean technologies are being deployed widely throughout the globe and include large-scale and residential solar PV, concentrated solar thermal, wind, hydro, biomass, wave energy, geothermal, green fuels utilisation (including hydrogen and bio-fuels), storage technology, and their mix. As the costs of these technologies continue to fall, uptake is expected to increase, creating new ways to generate, store and produce clean energy for heat and/or power generation and to drive energy-intensive processes. This special issue aims to report the latest technological advancements in the development and demonstration of new clean, renewable energy technologies able to provide cost-effective CO2 mitigation and low-cost energy generation. The issue will contain a synthesises of the current progress status in technology development, key techno-economic benefits and challenges as well as present barriers, drivers, opportunities, enablers and pathways for a rapid deployment of these new technologies. Original research and reviews articles on smart utilisation of renewable fuels (e.g. hydrogen, biomass, bio-fuels) including clean combustion technologies, concentrated solar thermal for heat and power, innovation in storage (thermal, chemical, thermo-chemical) and other energy forms (wind, hydro, PV, geothermal) are welcome.
Dr. Alfonso Chinnici
Dr. Mehdi Jafarian
Dr. Maurizio Troiano
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Renewable Energy
- Renewable fuels
- Solar Thermal
- Energy storage
- Clean Combustion
- Biomass
- Wind energy
- Hydrogen
- Wave energy
- Geothermal
- Efficiency
- Low-carbon economy
- GHG reduction
- PV
- Power generation
- Heat
- Carbon Capture
- Hybrid systems
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