Sustainability in Fuel Consumption and Pollutant Emission Management

Dear Colleagues,

In the face of increasing environmental pressures, especially in energy, great efforts must be made to achieve long-term development. It is universally acknowledged that long-term development can only be achieved through sound environmental management, that is, sustainable development, especially important in fuel consumption and pollution emission, which is the focus of this Special Issue.

Rapid global economic growth is leading to social prosperity and the increasing demand for energy that rapidly depletes the global reserve of petroleum fuels, which makes how to reduce or adjusting fuel consumption a matter of urgency.

Pollution emissions are one of the world’s largest health and environmental problems. The amounts and types of pollution emissions change every year. These changes are caused by changes in the nation's economy, industrial activity, technology improvements, traffic, and many other factors.

Sustainable development requires minimizing the consumption of fuel and the generation of pollutants waste and toxic pollution emissions throughout the entire production and consumption process. The pollutants are carbon monoxide (CO), lead (Pb), nitrogen dioxide (NO₂), ozone (O₃), particulate matter (PM), sulfur dioxide (SO₂), and so on. There is also a large amount of compounds that have been determined to be hazardous, called air toxics.

Furthermore, the benefits of sustainable development are also felt across a wide cross-section of human health and wellbeing, including reductions in pollution- and environment-related disease, improved health outcomes and decreased stress.

This Special Issue welcomes high-quality process-oriented and hypothesis-based submissions that report results from original and novel research and contribute new knowledge to help address problems related to fuel consumption and pollution emissions under the Sustainable Development Goals on a regional or global scale. Discussions on the effects of fuel consumption and pollution emissions under the Sustainable Development Goals are welcome.

• Low-carbon fuel consumption;
• Clean utilization of fossil fuels;
• Hydrogen fuels;
• Air pollution;
• Emission reduction;
• Harmless treatment of combustion wastes;
• Sustainable development of fuel consumption.

I look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Denghui Wang
Guest Editor

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• fuel consumption
• pollution emissions
• emission control
• energy access
• environmental remediation
• catalytic material
• sustainable development