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Prospects for Biomass Pyrolysis and Gasification Technologies into Bioenergy
edited by
submission deadline 15 Jan 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 31572 | Submission Open
Keywords: biomass; gasification; pyrolysis and co-pyrolysis; biochar; bio-oil; carbon footprint; CO2 emissions; catalyst; modeling; waste-to-energy
(This special issue belongs to the Section A4: Bio-Energy)
Computational and Experimental Fluid Dynamics for Wind Energy
edited by
submission deadline 15 Jan 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 15021 | Submission Open
Keywords: wind energy; numerical simulation; computational fluid dynamics; wind turbine design; wind farm control; atmospheric boundary layer flow
(This special issue belongs to the Section A3: Wind, Wave and Tidal Energy)
Energy Efficiency and Energy Saving in Buildings
edited by José Luis Molina and Teresa Rocío Palomo Amores
submission deadline 15 Jan 2026 | 9 articles | Viewed by 9671 | Submission Open
Keywords: energy efficiency in buildings; passives strategies; indoor comfort; sustainable technologies in buildings
(This special issue belongs to the Section G: Energy and Buildings)
From Consumer Behavior to Business Innovation: Paths to a Sustainable Energy Future submission deadline 15 Jan 2026 | 9 articles | Viewed by 7657 | Submission Open
Keywords: sustainable energy; energy system; fossil fuel; energy policy; energy consumption behaviors; energy economics; renewable energy adoption; energy decision-making; energy forecasting; smart energy solutions; circular economy in energy; energy market transformation
(This special issue belongs to the Section C: Energy Economics and Policy)
Ocean Energy Conversion and Magnetohydrodynamic Power Systems
edited by Lingzhi Zhao and
submission deadline 15 Jan 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 7563 | Submission Open
Keywords: ocean energy conversion; magnetohydrodynamic/MHD power generation; control; maximum power tracking; array; design; modelling; life cycle assessment; economic analysis; application; offshore deployment; power conversion; LMMHD; MHD
(This special issue belongs to the Section A3: Wind, Wave and Tidal Energy)
Advances in Nuclear Power Plants and Nuclear Safety
edited by Yuan Zhou
submission deadline 15 Jan 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 5518 | Submission Open
Keywords: nuclear reactor; thermal hydraulics; safety analysis; control methods; artificial intelligence
(This special issue belongs to the Section B4: Nuclear Energy)
Advances in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Cycle
edited by , Xu Peng and
submission deadline 15 Jan 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4882 | Submission Open
Keywords: supercritical CO2 cycles; thermodynamic efficiency; system integration; control strategy; energy conversion
(This special issue belongs to the Section J: Thermal Management)
Advances in Power Converters and Inverters
edited by Yufei Li, Feng Guo and Yonghui Liu
submission deadline 15 Jan 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4801 | Submission Open
Keywords: converter topology; wide-bandgap power devices; grid-forming converter; machine learning; artificial intelligence; energy storage; transportation electrification; high-power multilevel converters; renewable energy
(This special issue belongs to the Section F: Electrical Engineering)
Towards Cleaner and More Efficient Combustion
edited by Ahmed Elwardany
submission deadline 15 Jan 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4489 | Submission Open
Keywords: thermo-fluids; thermodynamics; cogeneration systems; fuels and combustion; internal combustion engines; diesel combustion
(This special issue belongs to the Section B: Energy and Environment)
Trends and Prospects in Fuel Cell Towards Industrialization
edited by and Peng Ren
submission deadline 15 Jan 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3847 | Submission Open
Keywords: fuel cell; material optimization; mass transfer; system control
(This special issue belongs to the Section D: Energy Storage and Application)
Condition Monitoring of Electrical Machines Based on Models
edited by , and Karen Julieth Uribe Murcia
submission deadline 15 Jan 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3757 | Submission Open
Keywords: electrical machine; state estimators; condition monitoring; data-driven models; physics-based models; digital twins; residual signals; hybrid models
(This special issue belongs to the Section F: Electrical Engineering)
Combustion and Application of Carbon Neutral Fuel in Internal Combustion Engine
edited by and
submission deadline 15 Jan 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 2896 | Submission Open
Keywords: ammonia; hydrogen; alcohol fuel; e-fuel; combustion; emissions; numerical simulation; engine design; engine control
(This special issue belongs to the Section I2: Energy and Combustion Science)
Advanced Methods for the Design and Optimization of Turbomachinery
edited by Jiang Chen, Hang Xiang and Jinxin Cheng
submission deadline 15 Jan 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2781 | Submission Open
Keywords: turbomachinery; aerodynamic design and optimization; multidisciplinary optimization; integrated design and manufacturing; artificial intelligence; digital twin; renewable energy; low-altitude economy
(This special issue belongs to the Section J: Thermal Management)
Advances in Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) and Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)
edited by and Ali Cheperli
submission deadline 15 Jan 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2459 | Submission Open
Keywords: CO2-EOR techniques and optimization; CO2 capture technologies and innovations; energy transition and integrated CO2 solutions; materials and processes for CO2 utilization; carbon footprint and life cycle assessment; CO2 storage in geological formations; CO2 transport in porous media
(This special issue belongs to the Section H: Geo-Energy)
Advanced Thermal Management in Electric Vehicles
edited by and
submission deadline 15 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1632 | Submission Open
Keywords: electric vehicles; thermal management; energy management; integrated systems; waste heat recovery
(This special issue belongs to the Section E: Electric Vehicles)
Electrical Engineering, High-Voltage, and Insulation Technologies: Second Edition
edited by
submission deadline 15 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1466 | Submission Open
Keywords: power cable; overhead conductor; cable accessory; EMI; defect detecting; lightning
(This special issue belongs to the Section F: Electrical Engineering)
Power Electronics in Renewable, Storage and Charging Systems
edited by and
submission deadline 15 Jan 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1428 | Submission Open
Keywords: wide bandgap; inductors; power electronics; renewable energy systems; energy storage
(This special issue belongs to the Section F3: Power Electronics)
Advances and Applications in Hybrid Simulation for Future Power and Energy Systems
edited by Shuqing Zhang
submission deadline 15 Jan 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 974 | Submission Open
Keywords: hybrid simulation; hardware-in-the-loop (HIL); power system dynamics; multi-energy systems (MES); inverter-based resources (IBRs)
Cutting-Edge Insights into Electrical Equipment Lifespan Assessment
edited by
submission deadline 15 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 721 | Submission Open
Keywords: failure mechanisms; electrical equipment; lifespan prediction
Advances in Biomass Conversion and Valorization: From Conventional to Emerging Technologies
edited by
submission deadline 15 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 556 | Submission Open
Keywords: biomass conversion; biomass energy utilization; sustainable energy systems; biorefinery concepts; sustainable bioeconomy; catalysis and process engineering; thermochemical and biochemical processes; life cycle and techno-economic assessment; hybrid and emerging conversion technologies
(This special issue belongs to the Section A4: Bio-Energy)
Hydraulic Machinery and Systems submission deadline 15 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 485 | Submission Open
Keywords: turbines; hydropower plants; thermal power station; energy effeciency
(This special issue belongs to the Section D: Energy Storage and Application)
Smart Energy Solutions with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning submission deadline 15 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 357 | Submission Open
Keywords: artificial intelligence; smart grid; intelligent energy management; AI-driven
(This special issue belongs to the Section F5: Artificial Intelligence and Smart Energy)
Advances in Nuclear Engineering Technologies
edited by
submission deadline 15 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 336 | Submission Open
Keywords: nuclear engineering; nuclear energy; heat transfer; advanced reactors; nuclear safety; nuclear fuel; nuclear safety
(This special issue belongs to the Section B4: Nuclear Energy)
Energy Efficiency in Industrial Processes
edited by and Zheng Grace Ma
submission deadline 15 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 309 | Submission Open
Keywords: energy efficiency; energy industry; energy management; renewable energy systems
Intelligent Control and Energy Management in Smart Grids for the Energy Transition
edited by Abdellatif Elmouatamid
submission deadline 15 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 173 | Submission Open
Keywords: AI and ML-based forecasting; control; and decision-making; energy management in microgrids and virtual power plants; demand-side management and dynamic pricing mechanisms; cyber-physical security and resilience in intelligent grids; real-time optimization and control of energy resources; multi-agent and distributed control architectures; edge/fog/cloud computing for energy data analytics; integration of electric vehicles (EVs) and energy storage; grid-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-grid; decision support systems for grid operators
(This special issue belongs to the Section A1: Smart Grids and Microgrids)
The Role of Battery Energy Storage in Electricity Markets submission deadline 15 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 159 | Submission Open
Keywords: battery energy storage; electricity markets; grid integration; renewable energy; energy storage systems; system services; market regulation
(This special issue belongs to the Section D: Energy Storage and Application)
Novel Research on Renewable Power and Hydrogen Generation
edited by
submission deadline 16 Jan 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6500 | Submission Open
Keywords: renewable energy technologies; solar energy; wind energy; bioenergy; hydrogen energy; hydrogen generation; fuel cells
(This special issue belongs to the Section A: Sustainable Energy)
Advances in Hydrogen Production and Hydrogen Storage, 2nd Edition
edited by
submission deadline 17 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 155 | Submission Open
Keywords: hydrogen; liquid hydrogen; hydrogen production; hydrogen liquefication; hydrogen storage; thermal management; liquid hydrogen heat and mass transfer
(This special issue belongs to the Section A5: Hydrogen Energy)
Advances and Optimization of Electric Energy System—2nd Edition
edited by , and
submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 15 articles | Viewed by 26848 | Submission Open
Keywords: energy management; demand response; vehicle-to-grid (V2G); integrated energy systems
(This special issue belongs to the Section F: Electrical Engineering)
Studies on Clean and Sustainable Energy Utilization
edited by , and Chen Sun
submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 11288 | Submission Open
Keywords: waste-to-energy (WtE); pollution control; smart system for energy utilization; resource recovery from waste; sustainable and clean energy; CO2 capture; utilization; and storage
(This special issue belongs to the Section A: Sustainable Energy)
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Study for Heat Transfer
edited by , Kuang C. Lin and
submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 10940 | Submission Open
Keywords: heat transfer; fluid flow; computational fluid dynamics (CFD); numerical heat transfer; convection; power engineering; heat exchanger; boilers; aerodynamic heating; combustion; cooling; multi-physics; multi-scales; machine learning; artificial intelligence (AI)
(This special issue belongs to the Section J: Thermal Management)
Renewable Energy Integration into Agricultural and Food Engineering
edited by and Alaika Kassim
submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 8655 | Submission Open
Keywords: renewable energy; food processing; cooling; drying; supply chain decarbonization; renewable-powered machinery; solar energy; wind energy; biomass energy; bioenergy; hydrogen energy; energy-efficient equipment; cold chain management; solar drying; sustainable agriculture; climate-smart farming
(This special issue belongs to the Section A: Sustainable Energy)
Innovations in Biomass Conversion, Biorefinery, and Energy Utilization: Modeling, Optimization, and Industrial Applications
edited by Frederico G Fonseca and
submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6351 | Submission Open
Keywords: biomass conversion; biorefinery; energy utilization; modeling and optimization; sustainable energy systems
(This special issue belongs to the Section A4: Bio-Energy)
Advances in Hydrogen Production in Renewable Energy Systems
edited by
submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 5575 | Submission Open
Keywords: energy storage systems; hydrogen production; renewable energy; hydrogen economy
(This special issue belongs to the Section A5: Hydrogen Energy)
Energy Efficiency and Thermal Performance in Buildings
edited by , , Honglian Li and
submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3773 | Submission Open
Keywords: building thermal engineering; outdoor meteorological parameters; indoor thermal environment; thermal comfort; thermo-hygro-physical parameters of building materials
(This special issue belongs to the Section G: Energy and Buildings)
Power Electronics Technologies for Aerospace Applications submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3642 | Submission Open
Keywords: power electronics; power converters; control; monitoring; power management; wide-bandgap (WBG) devices; energy storage technologies
(This special issue belongs to the Section F3: Power Electronics)
Fault Detection and Diagnosis Applications for Electric Vehicles and Power Electronics
edited by
submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3253 | Submission Open
Keywords: fault detection and diagnosis; initial fault detection; neural network-based classification systems; data and signal processing; deep neural networks; transfer learning; mathematical modeling; fault-tolerant control; estimation theory
(This special issue belongs to the Section F: Electrical Engineering)
Financial Development and Energy Consumption Nexus—Third Edition
edited by
submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3093 | Submission Open
Keywords: financing of sustainable energy sector development; responsible financing of energy sector; financing of renewables; financing of energy transition; risks; returns; and investment across energy sectors; climate change mitigation and energy investments; financial measures to promote renewables and energy efficiency; financial measures to promote energy security; financial measures to promote energy affordability; modelling and forecasting of energy consumption
(This special issue belongs to the Section C: Energy Economics and Policy)
Advances in Power System and Green Energy submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 2809 | Submission Open
Keywords: smart grid; renewable energy integration; energy storage; sustainable grids; power system resilience
(This special issue belongs to the Section A: Sustainable Energy)
Advances in Computational Intelligence for Control, Estimation, and Optimization in Power Systems, Electrical Machines, and Renewable Energy Systems submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2775 | Submission Open
Keywords: computational intelligence; artificial neural networks; fuzzy logic systems; genetic algorithms; swarm intelligence; intelligent control; state estimation; system identification; electrical drives and motor control; power electronics and converters; renewable energy systems (wind; solar; hybrid); smart grid technologies; energy storage optimization; electric vehicles and transportation electrification; microgrids and distributed generation; power system stability and forecasting; model predictive control; fault detection and diagnostics; data-driven energy management
Advances in Stability Analysis and Control of Power Systems: 2nd Edition
edited by , and
submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2584 | Submission Open
Keywords: stability analysis; nonlinear system theory; interaction mechanism; multi-time scale interaction; wide-band oscillation; stability control; damping control; distributed cooperative control; inertia support; frequency and voltage stability control; data-driven control
(This special issue belongs to the Section F1: Electrical Power System)
Advancing Oil and Gas Resource Exploration, Extraction, and Utilization for Sustainability
edited by Chaofan Zhu, and
submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 2284 | Submission Open
Keywords: oil and gas resources; exploration; extraction; utilization; sustainability
(This special issue belongs to the Section H1: Petroleum Engineering)
Energy Transition: Interaction of Gas/Hydrogen and Electricity Systems
edited by and Venizelos Venizelou
submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2194 | Submission Open
Keywords: energy transition; decarbonization; hydrogen integration; power-to-gas; energy storage; gas-hydrogen-electricity interaction; policy and regulation
(This special issue belongs to the Section A: Sustainable Energy)
Bio-Waste to Energy and Added Value Products—Challenges and Opportunities: 2nd Edition submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2133 | Submission Open
Keywords: bio-waste characteristics and properties; bio-waste management from the municipal; agriculture; and food industry sector; fermentative methane and hydrogen production form bio-waste; biodiesel and bioethanol production; thermal transformation (gasification; pyrolysis; combustion; plasma technologies); bio-waste based multi-product biorefinery technologies; energy and material recycling form bio-waste; bio-waste recovery; circular economy in the bio-waste sector; bio-waste in fertilization and the animal feed sector; high-added value products form bio-waste; modelling and optimization in bio-waste processing; life cycle costing (LCC) and life cycle assessment (LCA) in bio-waste management
(This special issue belongs to the Section A4: Bio-Energy)
Advanced Load Forecasting Technologies for Power Systems
edited by and Young-Min Wi
submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2021 | Submission Open
Keywords: load forecasting; machine learning; renewable energy; advanced forecasting model
(This special issue belongs to the Section F1: Electrical Power System)
Advanced Thermal Energy Storage and Control Strategies for Integrated Energy Systems
edited by Zahra Hajabdollahi Ouderji
submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1819 | Submission Open
Keywords: thermal energy storage (TES); advanced control strategies; integrated energy systems; energy optimization; system integration; dynamic control systems; smart energy management; renewable energy integration; energy efficiency; sustainable energy systems
(This special issue belongs to the Section D: Energy Storage and Application)
Wind Power Generation and Wind Energy Utilization
edited by Yingying Zheng and Yongning Zhao
submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1719 | Submission Open
Keywords: wind energy analytics; predictive maintenance; machine learning; digital twin; advanced sensor systems; SCADA data integration; structural health monitoring; grid stability
(This special issue belongs to the Section A3: Wind, Wave and Tidal Energy)
Proton-Exchange Membrane (PEM) Fuel Cells and Water Electrolysis
edited by , Ze Zhou and
submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1673 | Submission Open
Keywords: fuel cells; water electrolysis; electrolyzers; hydrogen
(This special issue belongs to the Section D2: Electrochem: Batteries, Fuel Cells, Capacitors)
Grid-Forming Converters in Power Systems
edited by Yunhui Huang
submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 1383 | Submission Open
Keywords: grid-forming converters; modeling; design; stability analysis; control strategy; standard; applications; optimization techniques
(This special issue belongs to the Section F1: Electrical Power System)
Novel Approaches in Waste Heat Recovery for District Heating Integration
edited by
submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1372 | Submission Open
Keywords: waste heat recovery; energy efficiency; district heating systems; heat pumps; thermal storage; sustainability
(This special issue belongs to the Section A: Sustainable Energy)
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