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Special Issue "Technical and Economic Evaluation of Non-fossil Fuels"

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

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (9 December 2020).

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Valter Silva
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Guest Editor
VALORIZA - Research Center for Endogenous Resource Valorisation, Polytechnic Institute of Portalegre, Portalegre, Portugal
Interests: modeling and simulation; energy engineering; fluid mechanics; chemical engineering; thermal engineering; mechanical engineering; energy; CFD simulation; linear programming; computational fluid dynamics
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

A significant portion of carbon dioxide build-up arrives from key sectors (the transportation and chemical industries, among others) continuing to rely heavily on fossil fuels, and then hampering the ever-ambitious global climate action agenda. To overcome these issues and shift the route back to a carbon-free economy, current processes need to be changed in many ways. A leading solution is the use of alternative fuels as hydrogen, ammonia, or biomass-based fuels, just to name a few. However, even hydrogen, which has been generating massive expectations as a potential enabler of a carbon-free economy, stumbles in key challenges such as storage, distribution, and infrastructure deployment.

In the broad spectrum of feasible decarbonization pathways, the challenge for political and economic decision-makers is to weigh uncertain impacts from different technologies and to build a comprehensive evidence-based framework for research, business, investment, and policy decision making.

This Special Issue aims to discuss a set of new technology approaches and environmental and economic implications related to non-fossil fuels.

Topics will broadly include, but are not limited to:

- Hydrogen, ammonia, biomass-based fuels

- Technologies able to reduce energy consumption and carbon footprint

- Alternative fuels for stationary and mobile solutions

- Fuels that can be used as a low-carbon electricity source

- Implementation of rising technologies

- Measures to tackle climate changes

- Technical data to target robust decision making and public engagement

- Life Cycle Analysis

- Environmental numerical models

Dr. Valter Silva
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 papers will be 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 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

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.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2000 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.

Keywords

  • Non-fossil fuels
  • Hydrogen
  • Ammonia
  • Biomass-based fuels
  • techno-economic analysis
  • LCA
  • Environmental analysis
  • Process integration.

Published Papers

There is no accepted submissions to this special issue at this moment.
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