Thermally Driven Renewable Energy Technologies
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2024 | Viewed by 2746
Special Issue Editors
Interests: thermodynamics; porous media; heat and mass transfer; reactive flows; renewable energy; conversion of solid organics; modeling and simulation; design calculations of thermal devices; high-temperature heat exchangers; analysis and optimization of energy systems
Interests: numerical modeling of thermal treatment of solid fuels; CFD; coupled lagrangian-eulerian methods; combustion; gasification; pyrolysis; equilibrium gas mixture computations; heat and mass transfer; reactive flows; intensification of heat transfer; porous media
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The entire world faces an energy crisis and negative environmental effects related to the excessive use of fossil fuels. Investments in renewable energy development, in addition to searching for the possibilities of reducing energy consumption, have become an urgent necessity. Heat exchange is the operation basis of heat supply systems and combined heat and power generation systems, based on biomass, solar and ground, or air, energy, and utilizing waste heat. The overall efficiency of such systems is therefore to a large extent a question of the effectiveness of heat transfer equipment that are their key elements, such as solar collectors, boilers, condensers, evaporators, regenerators, etc. The use of various working fluids, as well as the utilization of low-grade biomass waste fuels, drives the studies on heat transfer enhancement and the improvement of working fluid thermal properties but also entails focusing on the technical aspects related to thermomechanical and chemical resistance and protection of heat exchange surface, and thus, the maintenance and lifetime of the devices. In addition, the sustainable utilization of locally available sources, which would allow for maximizing the total percentage of renewables in the energy market, should be supported by optimizing energy use. This has spurred increased interest in short- and long-term thermal storage systems as vital to the development of effective integrated “green” technologies of heat and power generation. The proposed thermal energy storage solutions make use of, for instance, porous or phase change materials.
Research in the area of thermally driven renewable energy technologies, therefore, involves a wide spectrum of phenomena such as the different modes of heat transfer, i.e., conduction, convection and radiation, liquid–solid heat exchange, and phase transitions.
The objective of this Special Issue is to outline heat transfer-related issues which are of importance to novel concepts and progress in today’s renewable energy technologies, both low- and high-temperature ones, and contributing to their efficiency and reliability. All types of works are welcome, including mathematical modeling, simulation, and experimental studies, as well as review works. The topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Heating and cooling;
- Heat transfer intensification;
- Low- and high-temperature heat exchangers;
- Solar collectors;
- Heat pumps;
- Low-emission biomass burners/furnaces;
- Integrated systems;
- Combined systems;
- Thermal energy storage;
- Waste heat utilization.
Dr. Sylwia Polesek-Karczewska
Dr. Izabela Wardach-Święcicka
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- heat exchangers
- boilers
- solar collectors
- thermal energy storage
- green energy
- heat transfer enhancement
- thermal efficiency
- phase change
- biogenic fuels
- computational fluid dynamics
- experimental
- design
- optimization
