Thermal Technologies and Applications in Renewable Energy
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Resources and Sustainable Utilization".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2023) | Viewed by 3729
Special Issue Editors
Interests: diesel; combustion process; fuels; pollutant emissions; engines and vehicles; fuel injection; energy
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2. Campus de Excelencia Internacional en Energía y Medioambiente, Escuela de Ingeniería Industrial de Toledo, Real Fábrica de Armas. Edif. Sabatini, Av. Carlos III, S/n, 45071 Toledo, Spain
Interests: biofuels; alternative fuels; diesel engines; pollutant emissions, waste heat recovery, Lubricity, thermodynamic diagnosis
2.. Escuela de Ingeniería Minera e Industrial de Almadén, Campus de Excelencia Internacional en Energía y Medioambiente, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Plaza Meca s/n, 13400 Almadén, Spain
Interests: biofuels; pollution; emissions; diesel fuel; on-road measurement; injection; engine durability
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The use of renewable energies, the development of new technologies and/or the improvement of those existing play a fundamental role in the search for ways to produce thermal energy in an environmentally friendly manner. Therefore, higher efficiency and better performance of thermal machines are continuously required to decrease the pollutant emissions generated and, consequently, to ensure public health.
Various innovative technological solutions are being studied and tested in different applications of the thermal sector, e.g. thermoelectric generators and thermoacoustic systems. The use of waste energy is a promising research field to better use of losses associated with the production process of thermal energy. Additionally, the use of renewable energies in the energy production processes is required by various government regulations. In this sense, the optimization of the performance and the design of installations associated to these energies is a research field in continuous advance.
This special edition will highlight the development of new technologies, the improvement of existing ones, as well as the challenges of thermal technologies from a more ecological and sustainable environmental point of view. In the same way, important aspects such as thermoeconomics or exergy will be considered.
We welcome documents on:
Thermal machines, Thermal technologies, advances and improvements in current technologies, bibliographic reviews, modelling of thermal machines, reduction of thermal pollution, increase in efficiency, validation of parameter determination methods, partial or total substitution of energy vectors, applications of renewable energies.
Dr. José Antonio Soriano García
Prof. Dr. María Reyes García Contreras
Dr. Carmen Mata
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- thermal machines
- efficiency
- fuel substitutions
- renewable energies
- renewable energy
- renewable energy evolution and transition
- green technology
- emission reduction
- energy efficiency
- thermoelectric generators
- thermoacoustic systems
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