Alternative and Emerging Cooling and Heating Technologies

Dear Colleagues,

We would like to invite you to contribute to a Special Issue of the Energies journal on the topic of “Alternative and Emerging Cooling and Heating Technologies”.

Cooling and heating technologies have long been at the heart of many industrial, commercial, and residential applications, including energy generation, heat recovery and industrial manufacturing, food and pharmaceutical processing and preservation, transport, and air-conditioning of buildings. Many of these applications still utilize conventional technologies that contribute significantly to the prevailing environmental impacts of the sector, through both direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions. Furthermore, as we have to make the transition to a low carbon economy, there are sizable environmental and economic benefits from developing efficient low carbon heating and cooling technologies that are fit for the future and at the same time reduce energy use and carbon emission.

This Special Issue will be the first multidisciplinary edition that brings together cutting-edge original research into alternative and emerging cooling and heat technologies on all levels of maturity and comprehensive review papers discussing the engineering and technical merits of these technologies in supporting a low carbon economy while being fit for current and future use. The main topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

• Advances in conventional cooling/heating systems;
• Advances in heat pump technologies;
• Advances in hybrid renewable and cooling/heating technologies;
• Advances in alternative heating and cooling technologies;
• Advances in absorption/adsorption technologies;
• Advances in emerging solid-state heating and cooling technologies;
• Advances thermal storage technologies;
• Advances in thermal network technologies;
• Advances in heat recovery to power technologies;
• Thermal control technologies and part load performance—demand response/control;
• Network impacts, LCA/environmental impacts;
• Hydrogen vs. heat pump for residential use;
• System specification guidelines;
• Impacts, LCA/environmental impacts;
• Thermal energy recovery.

Each submission will undergo a formal peer review process. Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously. Please respond to this invitation at your earliest opportunity.

Dr. Issa Chaer
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

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-anonymized 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.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.