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Sustainable Low-Carbon Energy Systems

A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "B: Energy and Environment".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 January 2026 | Viewed by 6

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Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Bologna, 40126 Bologna, Italy
Interests: low-carbon energy systems based on ORC technology and H2 energy storage systems; environmental impact; fluid power applications; thermodynamic analysis of advanced energy systems; complex cycle gas turbines; thermo-economic and environmental analysis of cogeneration and micro-cogeneration systems; heat recovery technologies; power-to-gas technologies
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Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Bologna, 40126 Bologna, Italy
Interests: waste heat recovery; heat valorization; heat storage; heat sources; heat transfer
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue will collect papers related to low-carbon heat and power generation technologies, with a particular emphasis on renewable integration, waste heat recovery, and energy saving techniques. In doing so, it will offer insights into new studies and findings regarding clean energy production for stationary applications in the civil, industrial and tertiary sectors, especially energy-intensive industries, such as metals, ceramics, glass, paper, chemicals, and other production processes requiring low-carbon systems. Papers on digitalization, modelling, numerical studies, and data-driven and/or physics-based approaches for performance prediction are particularly welcome

Potential Special Issue papers topics include the following:

  • Clean hydrogen generation;
  • Combined heat and power based on advanced prime movers;
  • Solar energy and heat generation;
  • Renewable heat pumps;
  • High-temperature industrial heat pumps;
  • Organic Rankine cycles for waste heat recovery;
  • Other innovative solutions.

Dr. Andrea De Pascale
Dr. Saverio Ottaviano
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Energies is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

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Keywords

  • energy saving
  • combined heat and power
  • waste heat recovery
  • hydrogen
  • renewable power producers

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