Sustainability of Energy Supply Chains and Systems
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sustainability and Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2020) | Viewed by 4148
Special Issue Editors
Interests: environmental performance of manufacturing systems; environmental performance of logistics and transportation; facility management; maintenance modeling and management; energy infrastructure
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: I am a research scholar, and my research interests are bioenergy, renewable energy, energy policy, ecosystem services, and supply chains. My particular research expertise lies on the modeling and analyses of sustainable energy supply chain worldwide linked with energy modelling, as developed through the BeWhere model
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Securing affordable and clean energy is a Sustainable Development Goal of the United Nations which deserves great attention because of its large impact on all the sustainability pillars and, in turn, on further sustainability goals.
In fact, a cleaner energy supply positively affects the sustainability performance of the clean water and the food available to humanity, of our cities and communities, of our industrial systems and infrastructure, and ultimately of all their products and outputs.
Moreover, sustainable energy is not just low carbon, renewable energy: It is an energy which is expected to minimize damage on the health of people and ecosystems and to generate employment and social benefits.
The ongoing challenge for industrialized as well as for emerging economies, is where can we get sustainable energy and how can we structure the energy and logistics systems to improve the sustainability performance of energy supply.
Many methods, approaches, and engineering tools can help to face these issues: from location analysis and GIS-based tools for regional planning to energy systems and process simulation tools, and from wide-ranging lifecycle assessment studies to the quantification of specific environmental or social impact indicators.
This Special Issue aims to collect contributions on models and methods emerging in this field, but especially on their application to the wide variety of practical problems and systems which represent the implementation of the challenge of sustainable energy supply.
With this background, we welcome contributions that may cover various stages of energy chains, from harvesting to conversion, from distribution to utilization, and which may fall within the whole range of energy sources and applications, from bioenergy to wind turbines, from electric transport to hydrogen refueling, and from smart grids to solar process heating, just to name a few examples.
Prof. Damiana Chinese
Dr. Sylvain Leduc
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Sustainable energy supply chains
- Location analysis
- Sustainable energy systems
- Industrial applications of sustainable energy
- Sustainability assessment and sustainability dimensions of energy supply
- Water–energy–food nexus
- Low carbon products and services
- Bioenergy, biofuel, and bioproduct supply chains
- Facilities siting and social acceptance
- Social impact
- Municipal energy systems
- Regional planning for sustainable energy supply
- Energy planning
- Process integration
- Ecosystem services
- Lifecycle assessment
