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Editorial Office

Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. Enrico Sciubba
Room 32, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Roma Sapienza, Via Eudossiana 18, 00184 Roma, Italy
Tel. +39 06 44 58 52 44; Fax: +39 06 44 58 52 49
Website: http://www.turbomachinery.it/pageSciubba.html
E-Mail: enrico.sciubba@uniroma1.it
Interests: turbomachinery CFD; turbulence modelling; exergy analysis of complex systems; engineering applications of AI to thermal conversion processes

Editor
Mr. Tony Xu
MDPI Haidian Office, Yingu Mansion, Suite 815, North 4th Ring Road West, 9, Haidian District, Beijing 100190, China
Tel. +86 10 62800830
E-Mail: tony.xu@mdpi.com

Publisher
Dr. Shu-Kun Lin
MDPI AG, Kandererstrasse 25, CH-4057 Basel, Switzerland
Tel. +41 79 322 33 79
Website: http://www.mdpi.org/lin/
E-Mail: lin@mdpi.com

Editorial Board

Prof. Dr. Thomas E. Amidon
Department of Paper and Bioprocess Engineering, College of Environmental Science and Forestry, State University of New York, 1 Forestry Drive, Syracuse, NY 13210, USA
Website: http://www.esf.edu/pbe/people/amidon.asp
E-Mail: teamidon@esf.edu
Interests: biorefineries; biofuels; bioenergy; bio-based materials and chemicals; nanocellulose; pulp and paper; pellets; forest and biomass resources; process development; novel bio-based products; cell wall deconstruction; hot water extraction; cellulosic bioproducts; improved fiber based products; biomass productivity
Contribution: Special Issue: Biomass and Biofuels
Special Issue: Biomass and Biofuels 2012
Special Issue: Biomass and Biofuels 2013

Prof. Dr. Chris Bingham
School of Engineering, University of Lincoln, Brayford Pool Lincoln, LN6 7TS, UK
Tel. +44 1522 668896
Website: http://www.kenan-flagler.unc.edu/faculty/directory/strategy-and-entrepreneurship/christopher-bingham
E-Mail: cbingham@lincoln.ac.uk
Interests: aircraft dynamics and advanced control; impact of driver behavior on energy efficiency of EVs/HEVs, electrical power distribution for deep-sea ROVs; power electronic servo-drive systems; real-time prognostics and diagnostics for industrial systems; sensor validation and fault detection; high-efficiency power supplies for domestic products; active magnetic bearings for high-speed energy storage
Contribution: Special Issue: Electrical Power and Energy Systems

Prof. Dr. Frede Blaabjerg
Institute of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, Pontoppidanstraede 101, DK-9220 Aalborg East, Denmark
Tel. +45 9635 9254; Fax: +45 9815 1411
E-Mail: fbl@et.aau.dk
Interests: wind power research; power electronics; control of wind turbines and wind farms; interconnection to grid; generators; power converters; ride-through operation
Contribution: Special Issue: Wind Energy
Special Issue: Wind Turbines
Special Issue: Wind Turbines 2013

Dr. Paul L. Chen
Center for Biorefining, Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering, University of Minnesota, 1390 Eckles Ave., St. Paul, MN 55108, USA
Tel. +1 612 6257721
Website: http://www.tc.umn.edu/~chenx088/energy/
E-Mail: chenx088@umn.edu
Interests: pyrolysis; hydrothermal liquefaction; microalgae; food processing
Contribution: Special Issue: Algae Fuel
Special Issue: Algae Fuel 2013

Dr. Mark Deinert
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Cockrell School of Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, USA
Tel. +1 206 300 4147; Fax: +1 512 471 1045
Website: http://nuclear.engr.utexas.edu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=97%3Amark-deinert&catid=31&Itemid=41
E-Mail: mdeinert@mail.utexas.edu
Interests: energy economics; systems analysis; complex systems; nuclear power; non proliferation; renewable energy; energy policy
Contribution: Special Issue: Solar Energy Systems and Materials

Prof. Dr. Ibrahim Dincer
Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Ontario, Institute of Technology (UOIT), 2000 Simcoe Street North, Oshawa, Ontario L1H 7K4, Canada
Tel. +1 905 721 8668 ext: 2573, Cell: 905 441 2229; Fax: +1 905 721 3370
Website: http://www.engineering.uoit.ca/faculty/ibrahim.dincer
E-Mail: ibrahim.dincer@uoit.ca
Interests: hydrogen and fuel cell systems; renewable energies; energy and exergy; energy conversion and management; heat and mass transfer; thermodynamics; drying; refrigeration; thermal energy storage
Contribution: In other journals:
Special Issue: Entropy Generation in Thermal Systems and Processes

Prof. Dr. Rafiqul Islam
Professor of Civil and Resource Engineering, Dalhousie University, D510, 1360 Barrigton Street, Sexton Campus, Halifax, NS, B3J 2X4, Canada
Tel. +1 902 494 3980; Fax: +1 902 494 6526
Website: http://myweb.dal.ca/rislam/
E-Mail: rislam@is.dal.ca
Interests: global warming; biodiversity; adaptation; sustainability; atmospheric and climate modeling; fossil fuel sustainability; nanomaterial; economics of sustainable engineering; energy policy; green technology

Prof. Dr. Mark Z. Jacobson
Atmosphere / Energy Program, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Environment & Energy (Y2E2) Building, 473 Via Ortega, Room 397, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Tel. +1 650 723 6836; Fax: +1 650 723 7058
Website: http://www.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/
E-Mail: jacobson@stanford.edu
Interests: climate change; air pollution; renewable energy resources; effects of energy systems on the atmosphere; computer modeling; aerosol particles; clouds; meteorology

Prof. Dr. Mark J. Kaiser
Center for Energy Studies, Louisiana State University, USA
Website: http://www.enrg.lsu.edu/staff/kaiser
E-Mail: mkaiser@lsu.edu
Interests: oil and gas economics; cost assessment; fiscal systems; valuation

Dr. Edwin Kessler *
Founding Director of the National Severe Storms Laboratory, NOAA, Norman, OK, USA
Website: http://kffl.ou.edu/
E-Mail: kess3@swbell.net
Interests: weather radar; clouds and precipitation; cloud seeding; severe storms; aviation meteorology; global warming; cold-frame agriculture; organic agriculture; traditional fuels; alternative fuels; energy conservation
* Founding Editor-in-Chief of Energies 2008-June 2009.

Dr. Susan Krumdieck
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand
Tel. +64 3 364 2987 x 7249
E-Mail: susan.krumdieck@canterbury.ac.nz
Interests: transportation; peak oil asset planning and risk analysis; travel behaviour adaptive capacity electricity supply sustainability; remote power systems; demand response geothermal transition engineering for emerging sustainability

Prof. Dr. Chang Sik Lee
School of Mechanical Engineering, Hanyang University, 17 Haengdang-dong, Sungdong-gu, Seoul, 133-791, Korea
Tel. +82 2 2220 0427; Fax: +82 2281 5286
E-Mail: cslee@hanyang.ac.kr
Interests: combustion; alternative fuels; laser diagnostics and spray measurement; combustion engines; pollutant emissions; modeling of engines and sprays; engine performance; thermodynamic analysis

Dr. Mark Levine
Director, Environmental Energy Technologies Division, MS 90-3026A, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Tel. +1 510 486 5238; Fax: +1 510 486 5454
Website: http://china.lbl.gov/researchers/mark.levine
E-Mail: mdlevine@lbl.gov
Interests: building energy research; US and international energy policy studies; environmentally friendly energy technology R&D; and indoor and urban/regional air quality and combustion research

Dr. Clifford Louime
FAMU BioEnergy Group, Technology Building D, Room 12, Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, FL 32307, USA
Tel. +1 850 412 7395; Fax: +1 850 561 2617
Website: http://www.famu.edu/cesta/main/index.cfm/research/bioenergy/
E-Mail: clifford.louime@famu.edu
Interests: biofuels; biotic and abiotic stress; genomics; computational biology

Prof. Dr. Terese Løvås
Department of Energy and Process Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Kolbjørn Hejes vei 1a, 7491 Trondheim, Norway
Tel. +47 735 93709
Website: http://www.ntnu.edu/employees/terese.lovas
E-Mail: terese.lovas@ntnu.no
Interests: combustion research; on topics such as: turbulent combustion, reaction kinetics, model reduction techniques; fundamentals such as turbulent flame speeds and extinction phenomena; applied topics such as engine, turbine and furnace combustion; alternative fuels, fossil fuels and solid bio fuels

Dr. Andrés G. Muñoz
Present address: Gesellschaft für Anlagen- und Reaktorsicherheit GRSmbH, Theodor-Heuss-Straße 4, 38122 Braunschweig, Germany
Tel. +49 (030) 8062 2928; Fax: +49 (030) 8062 2434
Website: http://mysites.grs.de/Person.aspx?guid=B3F84198-5C10-468C-8EEA-09245C4E1CAB
E-Mail: andres.munoz@grs.de
Interests: photovoltaic; charge carrier transport dynamics; solid-state junctions; energy conversion; photovoltaic materials; silicon technology
Contribution: Special Issue: Solar Cells
In other journals:
Special Issue: Solar Cells

Prof. Dr. Vasily Novozhilov
Built Environment Research Institute, School of The Built Environment, University of Ulster, Jordanstown campus, Shore Road, Newtownabbey, Co. Antrim, BT37 0QB, UK
Tel. +44 289 0368705; Fax: +44 289 0368726
Website: http://www.ulster.ac.uk/staff/vb.novozhilov.html
E-Mail: vb.novozhilov@ulster.ac.uk
Contribution: Special Issue: Combustion for Aerospace Propulsion
Special Issue: Combustion for Ground and Marine Transportation
Special Issue: Coal, Biomass & Solid Refuse Combustion

Prof. Dr. Shusheng Pang
Wood Technology Research Centre, Department of Chemical and Process Engineering, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand
Tel. +64 3 364 2538; Fax: +64 3 364 2063
Website: http://www.cape.canterbury.ac.nz/people/pang.shtml
E-Mail: shusheng.pang@canterbury.ac.nz
Interests: biomass gasification, biomass pyrolysis, biomass to syngas and liquid fuels through theremochemical processing; biomass drying, sustainability analysis for biomass to liquid fuel processing

Dr. Calliope Panoutsou
Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London, Exhibition Road, SW72AZ, London, UK
E-Mail: c.panoutsou@imperial.ac.uk
Interests: energy; biomass; biofuels; energy crops; renewable energy; sustainability; energy policy

Prof. Dr. Arthur J. Ragauskas
School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Institute of Paper Science and Technology at Georgia Institute of Technology, 500 10th St., NW, Atlanta, GA, 30332-0620, USA
Tel. +1 404 894 9701; Fax: +1 404 894 4778
Website: http://www.chemistry.gatech.edu/faculty/Ragauskas/
E-Mail: arthur.ragauskas@chemistry.gatech.edu
Interests: biofuels; biopower; bio-based materials and chemicals; biorefinery; nanocellulose

Dr. Erich Schneider
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Cockrell School of Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, USA
Tel. +1 512 232 5412; Fax: +1 512 471 4589
Website: http://www.me.utexas.edu/directory/faculty/schneider/erich/156/
E-Mail: eschneider@mail.utexas.edu
Interests: nuclear reactor physics; radiation transport modeling; nuclear fuel cycle simulation; optimization, proliferation countermeasures

Prof. Dr. Hiroshi Sekimoto
Research Laboratory for Nuclear Reactors, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1 0-okayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152, Japan
Website: http://www.nr.titech.ac.jp/~hsekimot/homeE.html
E-Mail: hsekimot@gmail.com
Interests: innovative nuclear energy systems; innovative nuclear reactor designs; self-consistent nuclear energy system; equilibrium nuclear energy utilization in the future
Contribution: In other journals:
Special Issue: Sustainable Nuclear Energy

Prof. Dr. Aldo Steinfeld
Institute of Energy Technology, ETH Zurich, Sonneggstr. 3, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland
Tel. +41 44 6327929
Website: http://www.pre.ethz.ch/staff/?id=steinfeld
E-Mail: aldo.steinfeld@ethz.ch
Interests: high-temperature heat/mass transfer phenomena; multi-phase reacting flows; applied thermochemical thermodynamics and kinetics; chemical reactor engineering; solar power and fuels production; fossil fuel decarbonization processes; CO2 capture/mitigation technologies; sustainable energy conversion

Prof. Dr. Paul Stewart
School of Engineering, University of Lincoln, Brayford Pool, Lincoln, LN6 7TS, UK
Tel. +44 1522 668896
Website: http://www.lincoln.ac.uk/engineering
E-Mail: pstewart@lincoln.ac.uk
Interests: power and energy; systems modeling and optimisation; electrical machines and drives; advanced fuels and combustion; control and simulation; electric and hybrid vehicles; more electric aircraft; gas turbines; internal combustion engine; advanced powertrains; electrical systems; artificial intelligence; low carbon operation; CFD
Contribution: Special Issue: Electrical Power and Energy Systems
In other journals:
Special Issue: Advances in Control Engineering

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Kai Sundmacher
Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems, Sandtorstrasse 1, D-39106 Magdeburg and Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Universitätsplatz 2, D-39106 Magdeburg, Germany
Tel. +49 391 6110 350; Fax: +49 391 6110 353
Website: http://www.mpi-magdeburg.mpg.de/research/groups/pcp/
E-Mail: sundmacher@mpi-magdeburg.mpg.de
Interests: chemical reaction engineering; separation processes; electrochemical process engineering and fuel cells; precipitation and emulsion processes; modeling and simulation

Dr. Izumi Taniguchi
Department of Chemical Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology 12-1, Ookayama-2, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8552, Tokyo, Japan
Tel. +81 3 5734 2155; Fax: +81 3 5734 2155
Website: http://www.chemeng.titech.ac.jp/english/faculty/taniguchi/profile.html
E-Mail: taniguchi.i.aa@m.titech.ac.jp
Interests: lithium-ion battery; solid oxides fuel cells; energy storage; fine ceramic particles; aerosol technology; functional material processing

Dr. Pierre Trambouze
Former Director of the French Institute of Petroleum (IFP) in Lyon, Retired and the Present address: 20 avenue des Cottages, 69300 Caluire, France
Tel. +33 (0)4 78 08 12 72; Fax: +33 (0)4 78 08 12 72
E-Mail: ptrambouze@orange.fr
Interests: chemical engineering; industrial process development; relationships between energies uses and greenhouse gases

Prof. Dr. George Tsatsaronis
Institute for Energy Engineering, Technische Universität Berlin, Marchstraße 18, 10587 Berlin, Germany
Tel. +49 30 31 42 47 76; Fax: +49 30 31 42 16 83
Website: http://www.energietechnik.tu-berlin.de/
E-Mail: tsatsaronis@iet.tu-berlin.de
Interests: word sense disambiguation; web and text mining; statistical natural language processing; semantic relatedness and similarity; semantic smoothing kernels; machine learning; ontologies; semantic graphs; semantic information extraction; digital libraries

Prof. Dr. Sergio Ulgiati
Department of Sciences for the Environment, Parthenope University of Naples, Centro Direzionale, Isola C4, 80143 Napoli, Italy
Tel. +81 5476666
E-Mail: sergio.ulgiati@uniparthenope.it
Interests: energy and eMergy assessment; life cycle assessment; bioenergy; biorefineries

Prof. Dr. Michael Walls
CREST, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Loughborough University, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 3TU, UK
Tel. +44 1509 635201
Website: http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/eese/ourpeople/staff/academics/professors/walls-michael.html
E-Mail: j.m.walls@lboro.ac.uk
Interests: renewable energy; silicon and thin film photovoltaics; interconnection technology; magnetron sputtering; optical coatings; metrology; methods of surface analysis

Prof. Dr. Simon J. Watson
Centre for Renewable Energy Systems Technology, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Holywell Park, Loughborough University, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 3TU, UK
Tel. +44 1509 635348; Fax: +44 1509 635341
Website: http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/eese/ourpeople/staff/academics/professors/watson-simon.html
E-Mail: s.j.watson@lboro.ac.uk
Interests: wind power; wind resource assessment; wind turbine wake modeling; climate change impacts on wind energy; integration of renewable energy into networks; wind turbine condition monitoring
Contribution: Special Issue: Wind Energy 2011
In other journals:
Special Issue: Spatial and Temporal Variation of the Wind Resource

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