Clean Use of Fuels: Future Trends and Challenges
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "B: Energy and Environment".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 November 2025 | Viewed by 2425
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Interests: chemical and energy process engineering; supercritical water; adsorption; biofuels; modeling and simulation
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Dear Colleagues,
Today, with the increasing need for energy in industry, agriculture, and homes and the strict environmental actions required to achieve sustainable development on our planet, we should all embrace reflective thinking about how to move forward. Reducing, reusing, and recycling everything we can in our daily lives is part of the solution, but at the same time, we must satisfy the need for progress that characterizes us. In this way, starting with the use of clean or renewable fuels along with the available sources of fossil fuels, we must encourage ourselves to move forward in such a way that the planet can be kept safe and countries can improve the lives of their citizens. This Special Issue is addressed to all researchers working on this topic by revisiting the state of different technologies in relation to the use of clean fuels and the clean use of fuels, wherever they come from, proposing new research on a number of topics or even compiling comprehensive reviews.
Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to, the following:
- The clean use of fossil fuels in transport, homes, and industry and how environmental engineering can be applied to the use of these fuels.
- The use of clean fuels for large-scale applications in transport, homes, and industry.
- The convergence of fuels of different provenances for sustainable development.
- Techno-economic and life-cycle assessments of new production processes.
- Experimental novelties regarding the valorization of waste to produce energy and chemicals.
- The simulation of new processes involving different feedstocks involving the circular economy.
- Optimal design methodologies to produce clean fuels or to promote the clean use of fuels.
- Advanced modeling approaches to describe chemical and energy processes.
- Propositions to reduce the energy demand of transport, homes, and industry while meeting production objectives.
Prof. Dr. Francisco Javier Gutiérrez Ortiz
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- pollutant control
- renewable fuels
- fossil fuels
- waste-to-energy
- techno-economic and life cycle assessments
- process simulation and modeling
- fuels for sustainable transport
- decentralized use of fuels for homes
- production optimization
- waste reduction and valorization
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