High-Temperature Power Units for Electricity and Heat Production: Current Status, Applications, and Trends

Dear Colleagues,

The Guest Editor is inviting submissions to the Special Issues of the journals Fuels on the high-temperature power units for electricity production. The world's energy consumption has been rising over the past 50 years due to population growth and the increasing industrialization of developing countries. The emerging trend has predetermined several serious environmental consequences, among which is global warming.

Environmental and energy safety can be improved by the implementation of effective high-temperature power units with low carbon dioxide emissions, including combined cycle power plants with carbon capture and storage fueled by natural gas, hydrogen, synthetic gas, oxy-fuel combustion power cycles, and ultrasupercritical steam turbine power units.  However, on the way to their creation, it is necessary to define the optimal parameters and structure for thermal schemes and provide reasonable scientific solutions for power generation equipment. 

This Special Issue will deal with the thermodynamic optimization and equipment development for high-temperature power units for electricity and heat production. 

Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to:  

• Thermodynamic optimization of high-temperature power plants;
• Development of oxy-fuel combustion power cycles;   
• Investigation of power plants with carbon capture and storage;   
• Low-potential heat utilization for power plants;   
• Power plants burning hydrogen and methane–hydrogen mixtures;  
• Power plants with coal gasification and methane reforming;     
• Cogeneration technologies;   
• Energy equipment development.

Dr. Vladimir Kindra
Dr. Rogalev Andrey
Dr. Komarov Ivan
Dr. Anisimova Iuliia Alekseevna
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. Fuels is an international peer-reviewed open access quarterly journal published by MDPI.

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• oxy-fuel combustion
• combined cycle
• gas turbine
• ultrasupercritical steam
• carbon dioxide
• carbon capture and storage
• structural and parametric optimization
• energy efficiency
• emission reduction