Combustion Optimization and Emission Reduction in Energy Systems
A Special Issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073) belonging to the section "I2: Energy and Combustion Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 January 2027 | Viewed by 99
Editor
Interests: fuel; combustion; biomass and waste gasification process; numerical simulations
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Combustion processes remain fundamental to modern energy systems and industrial operations, despite the ongoing transition toward low-carbon technologies. They continue to play a crucial role in power generation, industrial furnaces, transportation systems, metallurgical processes, waste-to-energy plants, and distributed heating applications. However, conventional combustion technologies are still associated with significant emissions of carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxides, sulfur oxides, particulate matter, and other harmful pollutants. Increasing environmental regulations, rising energy efficiency requirements, and global decarbonization goals have accelerated research efforts toward cleaner combustion technologies, alternative fuels, advanced numerical modeling, and emission mitigation strategies. At the same time, the growing integration of hydrogen, ammonia, biomass-derived fuels, synthetic fuels, and carbon capture technologies creates new scientific and engineering challenges related to combustion stability, efficiency, pollutant formation, and operational safety.
This Special Issue aims to present and disseminate the most recent advances related to combustion optimization, emission reduction, alternative fuels, numerical modeling, experimental diagnostics, and sustainable thermal energy systems.
Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Optimization of combustion processes in boilers, furnaces, gas turbines, and power plants;
- Hydrogen combustion technologies;
- Ammonia combustion systems;
- Biomass combustion and waste-derived fuels;
- Syngas and alternative gaseous fuels;
- Oxy-fuel combustion;
- Carbon capture integration with combustion systems;
- Artificial intelligence and machine learning in combustion optimization;
- Waste heat recovery systems;
- Decarbonization of conventional thermal energy systems;
- Hybrid energy systems involving combustion technologies;
- Renewable fuel integration into existing combustion infrastructure.
Although this Special Issue covers interdisciplinary research, the core focus of all submissions must remain within the field of energy.
Prof. Dr. Rafał Buczynski
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- combustion optimization
- emission reduction
- low-emission combustion
- hydrogen combustion
- ammonia combustion
- alternative fuels
- biomass combustion
- syngas
- CFD modeling
- reactive flows
- chemical kinetics
- pollutant formation
- NOx reduction
- carbon capture
- industrial furnaces
- energy efficiency
- decarbonization
- thermal energy systems
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