Energy and Environment
A section of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073).
Section Information
The “Energy and Environment” Section covers all topics at the interface of energy and the environment that are of interest to the science and engineering communities. Special focus is given to progress in research and applications associated with the development and evaluation of technological and administrative pathways that minimize the environmental impacts of energy life cycles. Download Section Flyer
Scope
Example topic areas within the scope of our journal's “Energy and Environment” Section are listed below. This list is neither exhaustive nor exclusive:
- Advanced Technologies for Environmentally Friendly Energy Systems
- Low Carbon Energy Production and Use Technologies
- Sustainable Consumption of Energy Resources
- Carbon Capture, Storage and Utilization (CCSU) Technologies
- Carbon Capture, Storage and Utilization (CCSU) Technology Assessments
- Synthetic Fuels and Chemicals: Assessment of Fuel or Chemical Production enabled by Solar and/or Wind Energy
- Emissions Reduction and Waste Management in Energy Production and Storage Technologies
- Environmental Impacts of Energy Production
- Climate Change Model Prediction and Uncertainties
- Stratospheric Ozone Depletion Assessment and Mitigation
- Acid Rain Assessment and Mitigation
- Potential Accidental Environmental Impacts in Fossil Energy Cycles
- Hidden (External) Cost of Energy
- Environmental Sustainability Assessments
- Life-Cycle Analysis of New Energy Production and Storage Technologies
- Life-Cycle Analysis of CCSU Pathways
- Energy Return on Energy Impact (EROI) and Carbon Footprint of New Technologies
- Global Carbon Budget Assessments
- Green Rating Systems
- Integrated Life Cycle and Environmental, Health and Safety Risk Analyses
- Governance, Legislation, and Environmental Policy for Energy Production
- Sustainability of Renewable Energies
- Rainfall Patterns and Hydropower
- Wind and Ocean Wave Seasonal Variation
- Solar Variability and Solutions
- Dual Use of Land and Water
- End-of-Life Management and Recycling
- Water-Energy-Environment Nexus
- Water Desalination Powered by Renewable Energies
- Treatment, Distribution, and End Use in Energy Productions
- Reliability and Resilience of Energy and Water Systems
- Alternative Water Sources –Reuse/Desalination/Decontamination Potential
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Special Issues
Following special issues within this section are currently open for submissions:
- Energy Transition Engineering 2021 (Deadline: 30 July 2021)
- Novel Combustion Techniques for Clean Energy (Deadline: 30 July 2021)
- Advanced Low-Carbon Technologies for Clean Energy Systems (Deadline: 31 July 2021)
- Modelling of Multiphase Flows for Renewable Energy (Deadline: 31 July 2021)
- 'Big' and Linked Data in Energy and Water Demand Research: Current Practices, Novel Insights and Future Agendas (Deadline: 31 July 2021)
- Energy Efficiency and Indoor Environment Quality (Deadline: 31 July 2021)
- Energy Technologies for the Environment and Sustainable Development (Deadline: 31 July 2021)
- Modeling and Analysis of Turbulent Premixed Combustion (Deadline: 31 July 2021)
- New Challenges in Energy and Environment (Deadline: 15 August 2021)
- Advance in CO2 Capture Technology (Deadline: 20 August 2021)
- Energy and Exergy Analysis of Renewable Energy Conversion Systems (Deadline: 20 August 2021)
- Energy Management and Energy Efficiency in Industry (Deadline: 20 August 2021)
- Machine Learning Applications to Combustion Engines (Deadline: 25 August 2021)
- Water and Wastewater Treatment- Energy Efficiency (Deadline: 25 August 2021)
- Distributed Energy Systems & Clean Energy Access (Deadline: 27 August 2021)
- Low Carbon Energy Transitions: Today and in the Future (Deadline: 30 August 2021)
- Advances in Reduction Technologies of Gas Emissions (CO2, NOx, and SO2) in Combustion-Related Applications (Deadline: 31 August 2021)
- Advanced Calibration Methodologies for a New Generation of Engines and Powertrains (Deadline: 31 August 2021)
- Energy-Efficient and Environmental Freindly Design, High-Performance Computing, and Cyber Physical System (Deadline: 31 August 2021)
- Ionic Liquids in Energy and Environment (Deadline: 31 August 2021)
- Operations Research Applications in the Energy Sector (Deadline: 31 August 2021)
- Combustion and Gasification of Solid Fuels (Deadline: 31 August 2021)
- Computational Techniques of Nuclear Reactor Physics (Deadline: 31 August 2021)
- Recovery of Solid Waste in Industrial and Environmental Processes (Deadline: 1 September 2021)
- Sustainable Production and Environmentally Responsible Consumption (Deadline: 15 September 2021)
- Energy and Environmental Engineering 2021 (Deadline: 20 September 2021)
- Combustion and Propulsion Systems (Deadline: 20 September 2021)
- Transportation Emissions and Energy Modeling (Deadline: 20 September 2021)
- Storage and Disposal Options for Nuclear Waste (Deadline: 20 September 2021)
- Opportunities for ICE Engines in Light-Duty Hybrid Vehicles (Deadline: 25 September 2021)
- Ignition and Combustion Characteristics of Automotive Fuels (Deadline: 30 September 2021)
- Energy Efficient Supply Chains (Deadline: 30 September 2021)
- Recent Advancements in Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) Technology and Its Processes (Deadline: 30 September 2021)
- Energy Consumption in Transportation and Industrial Sectors (Deadline: 30 September 2021)
- Recent Advances in Renewable Energy and Clean Energy (Deadline: 30 September 2021)
- Vehicle Energy Consumption and Emissions in Intelligent and Sustainable Transportation Systems (Deadline: 30 September 2021)
- Modeling, Control and Optimization of Hybrid Energy Systems for Climate Change (Deadline: 30 September 2021)
- Advances in Low Carbon Technologies and Transition Ⅱ (Deadline: 30 September 2021)
- Instance on Energy Management Practices for Circular Economy in Agricultural SMEs (Deadline: 15 October 2021)
- Change but No Climate Change: Discourses and Approaches of Climate Change in the Energy Industry (Deadline: 15 October 2021)
- Pyrolysis and Gasification of Biomass and Waste (Deadline: 20 October 2021)
- Sustainability and Life Cycle Assessment (Deadline: 20 October 2021)
- Plastic Recycling, Waste Heat Recovery, and CO2 Capture & Utilization: The Role of Chemical Processes and Biobased Materials (Deadline: 20 October 2021)
- Data Analytics in Energy Systems Ⅱ (Deadline: 20 October 2021)
- Advances in Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Deployment (Deadline: 22 October 2021)
- Carbon Nano-Particles and Materials: Importance in Energy Systems (Deadline: 25 October 2021)
- Integrated Waste Management (Deadline: 25 October 2021)
- Environmental Economics and Policy Analysis (Deadline: 25 October 2021)
- Materials Recycling and Energy Use of Waste (Deadline: 31 October 2021)
- The Influence of Fuels on the Performance of Modern CI Engines and Environmental Pollution (Deadline: 31 October 2021)
- Towards Greenhouse Gas Mitigation: Novelty in Heterogeneous Catalysis (Deadline: 31 October 2021)
- Microgrid Design and Operation for Carbon Emission Reductions (Deadline: 31 October 2021)
- Global Climate Change and Energy Transition (Deadline: 31 October 2021)
- Energy Balancing/Optimization in General, with Special Emphasis on Crop Production (Deadline: 8 November 2021)
- Waste Heat Recovery Using Thermoelectric Generators (Deadline: 10 November 2021)
- Technology Management and Innovation in the Energy Field (Deadline: 10 November 2021)
- Clean Energy for Sustainable Transportation (Deadline: 12 November 2021)
- Control Strategies of Wastewater Treatment Processes (Deadline: 15 November 2021)
- Relationship Analysis of the Water-Energy-Food Nexus under Climate Change (Deadline: 15 November 2021)
- The Energy Water Nexus (Deadline: 15 November 2021)
- Underground Heat Island Effect and Subsurface Temperature in Urban Environment (Deadline: 15 November 2021)
- Solid Oxide Electrolytic Cells for Renewable Fuels Production and Long Term Energy Storage (Deadline: 15 November 2021)
- Residual Resource Recovery for Bioenergy and Biomolecule Production in a Circular Economy: Sustainable Process Design and Technoeconomic Feasibility (Deadline: 20 November 2021)
- Recent Advances in High-Efficiency Buildings (Deadline: 20 November 2021)
- Rethinking Energy: Earth System Science Approaches 2021 (Deadline: 20 November 2021)
- Smart Energy for Smart Cities (Deadline: 25 November 2021)
- Green Energy (Deadline: 25 November 2021)
- BIWAES 2021—Biennial International Workshop Advances in Energy Studies "Empowering Communities, Beyond Energy Scarcity" (Deadline: 25 November 2021)
- Advanced Applications of Microwave Technologies in Agricultural, Resource Management and Energy Industries (Deadline: 26 November 2021)
- Advances in Reacting Flow Simulation (Deadline: 30 November 2021)
- Sustainable Waste Management and Potential for Waste-to-Energy (Deadline: 30 November 2021)
- Developing the World in 2021 with Clean and Safe Energy (Deadline: 30 November 2021)
- Integration of Energy, Safety and Environmental Systems for a Sustainable Development (Deadline: 30 November 2021)
- Recent Advances in Hydrothermal Carbonization of Biogenic Residues and Waste Streams (Deadline: 30 November 2021)
- Energy Efficient IoT Network in Cloud Environment (Deadline: 1 December 2021)
- Recent Advances in the Design, Modeling and Numerical Simulations of Low-Emission Burners (Deadline: 1 December 2021)
- Life Cycle Assessment of Environmental System (Deadline: 10 December 2021)
- Sustainable Management of Energy Resources, Energy Strategies and Climate Change (Deadline: 10 December 2021)
- Lidar Applications to Monitoring Emissions and Transportation of Urban Particulate Pollution (Deadline: 10 December 2021)
- Advances in Maintenance Management (Deadline: 15 December 2021)
- Public Health Impacts of Energy Poverty and Energy Use Behaviours (Deadline: 15 December 2021)
- Negative Emissions Technologies: Perspectives from the Social Sciences and Humanities (Deadline: 15 December 2021)
- Modelling, Optimization and Control of Carbon Capture for Power Plants (Deadline: 20 December 2021)
- Advance in Flue Gas Treatment (Deadline: 20 December 2021)
- Approaches for Energy Storage, Sensing and Electrocatalysis (Deadline: 20 December 2021)
- Improvements on CO2 Vapour Compression Cycles (Deadline: 31 December 2021)
- Agricultural Practices in GHG Mitigation (Deadline: 31 December 2021)
- High-Performance Computing and Its Applications in Climate and Energy (Deadline: 31 December 2021)
- Extrinsic and Electric Field Effects in Electrochemical CO2 Reduction (Deadline: 31 December 2021)
- Agricultural Product-Derived Carbon for Energy, Sensing, and Environmental Applications (Deadline: 31 December 2021)
- CO2 Capture, Transportation, Utilization, and Storage (Deadline: 31 December 2021)
- Energy System Optimization Modeling for System Planning, Operation Scheduling, Energy Management, and System Analysis (Deadline: 31 December 2021)
- Towards Zero-Waste Cities: Advancement in Waste-to-Energy (Deadline: 31 December 2021)
- Accelerating Renewable Energy Transition Post Major World Events (Deadline: 31 December 2021)
- Developing Technologies for Fuels Production (Deadline: 31 December 2021)
- Optimization and Control of Energy Systems Planning with Environmental Considerations and Carbon Capture and Sequestration (Deadline: 31 December 2021)
- Energy Decision Making: Problems, Methods, and Tools (Deadline: 31 December 2021)
- Sustainable Development Solutions Integrating Water, Energy and Land: From Urban to Global Scale (Deadline: 31 December 2021)
- Resilient and Flexible Energy Systems (Deadline: 31 December 2021)
- Advance in Green Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development 2021 (Deadline: 12 January 2022)
- Advances in Porous Media for Water, Energy, Environment, and Climate Change (Deadline: 15 January 2022)
- Optimization of Complex Energy Systems (Deadline: 20 January 2022)
- Energy Transition towards Carbon Neutrality (Deadline: 20 January 2022)
- Energy Efficiency of the Buildings (Deadline: 25 January 2022)
- Smart Mobility and Energy Transitions 2021 (Deadline: 25 January 2022)
- Challenges and Development on Carbon Capture and Storage (Deadline: 31 January 2022)
- Sustainable Development and Renewable Energy Trends (Deadline: 31 January 2022)
- Selected Papers from International Conference on Evolving Cities 2021 (ICEC 2021) (Deadline: 31 January 2022)
- Advanced Engine Technologies and Fuels (Deadline: 31 January 2022)
- Exploring Carbon Emission Issues and Emission Reduction Methods (Deadline: 31 January 2022)
- Energy Use for Industrial and Propulsive Applications and Carbon Emissions Reduction (Deadline: 31 January 2022)
- Improvement of Industry Energy Efficiency (Deadline: 8 February 2022)
- Sustainable Technologies (Deadline: 10 February 2022)
- From Unidisciplinary to Multidisciplinary Energy Research (Deadline: 10 February 2022)
- Renewable Energy Applications in Livestock Barns (Deadline: 14 February 2022)
- Challenges and Research Trends of Energy Transition in Fuel-Dependent Regions (Deadline: 18 February 2022)
- Waste Management and Circular Economy in Regional Development and Planning (Deadline: 18 February 2022)
- Trends and Prospects in Equitable Energy Transition (Deadline: 20 February 2022)
- Exhaust Emissions from Passenger Cars 2021 (Deadline: 20 February 2022)
- A Study on the Socio-Economic Perspective of Clean Energy (Deadline: 20 February 2022)
- Frontier 2021: Sustainable Management of Water and Wastewater Treatment Systems (Deadline: 20 February 2022)
- New Frontiers in Clean and Efficient Utilization of Solid Fuel (Deadline: 22 February 2022)
- Environmental Assessment and Optimization of Energy Systems and Technologies (Deadline: 25 February 2022)
- Carbon, Water, Energy, and Land-Use Footprint (Deadline: 25 February 2022)
- Sustainable Energy Concepts for Energy Transition (Deadline: 28 February 2022)
- Enhancing the Performance of Membrane Distillation by Using Electrical Energy (Deadline: 28 February 2022)
- Energy-Saving and Carbon-Neutral Technologies for Maritime Transport (Deadline: 15 March 2022)
- Sustainability Transformations in the Energy, Water and Agri-Food Sectors (Deadline: 20 March 2022)
- Advanced Technologies for Wastewater and Solid Waste Treatment (Deadline: 20 March 2022)
- Advances in CO2 Mitigation in Energy and the Environment (Deadline: 31 March 2022)
- Development and Use of New Generation Biofuels in IC Engines (Deadline: 31 March 2022)
- Trends and Perspectives in Greenhouse Gas Emissions (Deadline: 31 March 2022)
- Education in Engineering: Targeting the Global Environmental Concern (Deadline: 31 March 2022)
- Low Carbon Transition for a Green Future (Deadline: 20 April 2022)
- Environmental Efficiency Evaluation of Power Systems (Deadline: 18 May 2022)
- Sustainable Combustion Systems and Their Impact II (Deadline: 31 May 2022)
- Recent Advances in Economy, Environment and Energy (Deadline: 31 May 2022)
- Energy Security - Sociological and Technical Aspects and Innovations (Deadline: 31 May 2022)
- High Efficiency Processes for Gas Separation & Purification (Deadline: 7 June 2022)
- Energy Water Food Nexus (Deadline: 30 June 2022)
- Frontiers in Marine Carbon Cycle (Deadline: 30 June 2022)
- Energy Systems and Applications in Agriculture (Deadline: 30 June 2022)
- Environment and Urban Systems: Simulation, Modeling and Analysis (Deadline: 1 July 2022)
- Environmental and Health Impacts of Renewable Energies (Deadline: 20 July 2022)
- Wastewater, Water and Energy (Deadline: 31 July 2022)
- Environmental Engineering and Biotechnology 2022 (Deadline: 20 January 2023)
Topical Collections
Following topical collections within this section are currently open for submissions:
