Selected Papers from the SDEWES 2020 Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water, and Environment Systems
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073).
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Interests: energy systems; energy scenarios; renewable energy system integration; energy and development; environmental impacts from energy development
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Interests: fuel cells; advanced optimization techniques; solar thermal systems; concentrating photovoltaic/thermal photovoltaic systems; energy saving in buildings; solar heating and cooling; organic Rankine cycles; geothermal energy; dynamic simulations of energy systems; renewable polygeneration systems
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Interests: energy planning of energy systems with a high penetration of renewables; sustainable communities; energy policy; energy economics; mitigation of climate change; energy efficiency and combustion engineering
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Interests: heat transfer enhancement and its applications to engineering problems; high-temperature heat transfer and fluid flow; transport phenomena in porous media; numerical simulation, prediction, and optimization
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Interests: energy; sustainable development; climate change; energy policy; science-based policy making
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
One of the main issues of the coming decades is improving efficiencies by integrating various life-supporting systems, using waste from one as a resource in another, and in then exact moment when it is beneficial to all, integrating electricity, heating, cooling, transport, water, buildings, waste, wastewater, industry, forestry, and agriculture systems. Sustainability also being the perfect field for interdisciplinary and multicultural evaluation of complex systems, the SDEWES conferences have become a significant venue for researchers in those areas to meet and to develop, discuss, share, and disseminate new ideas.
Energy has been and is the key-factor in human development; however, it is also one of the main—if not the main—human environmental fingerprints. Even with a significant attention on the importance and merits of sustainable energy supply over the last few decades, there are still significant gaps to be filled with respect to how to design and implement technically optimal energy systems at the lowest cost.
This Special Issue (SI) aims to provide an important contribution by presenting state-of-the-art sustainable energy supply solutions ranging from technical analyses of energy components on both the supply and demand side to energy scenarios and pathways. This SI particularly welcomes SDEWES papers that address the energy system without traditional sector boundaries between electricity, heating, cooling, transportation and industrial demands and rather considers the integration and synergies between these sectors.
The 15th conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water, and Environment Systems—SDEWES Conference will be held in Cologne, dedicated to the improvement and dissemination of knowledge on methods, policies, and technologies for increasing the sustainability of development by de-coupling growth from natural resources and replacing them with knowledge-based economy, taking into account its economic, environmental, and social pillars.
Prof. Dr. Poul Alberg Østergaard
Prof. Dr. Francesco Calise
Prof. Dr. Neven Duić
Prof. Dr. Qiuwang Wang
Prof. Dr. Maria da Graça Carvalho
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Sustainability comparisons and measurements
- Smart energy systems
- Energy policy
- Water–energy nexus
- Energy system analysis
- Renewable energy resources
- Primary energy resources
- Renewable electricity generation systems
- Thermal power plants
- District heating and/or cooling
- Advanced sustainable energy conversion systems
- Renewable heat systems
- Biofuels and biorefineries
- Alternative fuels
- Hybrid and electric vehicles
- Water treatment for drinking water
- Modelling for pollution avoidance and energy efficiency
- Cogeneration, trigeneration, polygeneration
- Energy storage
- Electricity transmission and distribution
- Gas security of supply
- Energy efficiency in industry and mining
- Energy-efficient appliances
- Energy efficiency in buildings
- Energy markets
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