Environmental Management and Engineering Related to Novel Energy Concepts

Dear Colleagues,

The requirements of sustainable and carbon neutral systems and infrastructures need our urgent attention in order to mitigate climate change. The need for advanced and novel technologies is clear in light of the UN sustainability goals. New technologies in energy concepts are continuously developed as we aim to solve the problem of secure and clean energy; at the same time, the environmental impacts of these concepts do not always attract the same level of attention. However, the environmental management of energy technologies and concepts is becoming an international challenge and a priority for the global community. The priority is to save energy, or develop clean energy concepts and foster care for the protection of the natural environment. The solutions sought should be in line with sustainable development, the bioeconomy, the circular economy and material and energy recycling. These matters will be extensively discussed at the Tenth International Conference on Environmental Management, Engineering, Planning and Economics (CEMEPE 2023), and proposals will be made there.

This Special Issue aims to present and disseminate environmental impact assessments related to theoretical assumptions or to the results of scientific and implementation research in the design, modelling and optimization of technological systems in novel energy concepts. Therefore, this Special Issue will focus on current biomass treatment methods and technologies for energy recovery, the state of the art in obtaining biofuel from different sources, including research on pellets, briquettes and tablets, biogas, biohydrogen, biodiesel, bioethanol, biochitan and syngas, the concept of biorefineries, the modeling and optimization of technologies for cleaner energy as well as for techno-economic analysis (TEA) and the life cycle assessment (LCA) of novel energy concepts, in any sector of production.

We invite you to publish original scientific contributions and review papers summarizing the achievements to date in this research field and indicate the strengths and weaknesses of the available technologies. Critical analysis will indicate the necessary directions for further development.

Prof. Dr. Athanasios Kungolos
Prof. Dr. Constantinos S. Psomopoulos
Dr. Konstantinos Kalkanis
Guest Editors

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• cyclic economy
• industrial symbiosis
• zero waste in the energy sector
• biosensors and smart monitoring systems
• energy and environment
• environmental economics
• environmental impact assessment and risk analysis
• environmental investment assessment
• environmental legislation and policy
• environmental management and engineering of energy concepts
• environmental restoration of end-of-life large scale energy infrastructures
• global climate change
• renewable energy sources
• sustainable production and consumption
• water–energy–food nexus
• water resources engineering and management