Thermodynamic and Technical Analysis for Sustainability (Volume 3)

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue follows the publication of the first and second volumes of Thermodynamic and Technical Analysis for Sustainability, which presented sixteen exciting papers.

Sustainability and sustainable development represent a present topic of investigation, with particular regard to their link to pollution, carbon dioxide emissions, and human wellbeing.

Sustainable development was introduced in the natural and environmental sciences with the aim of attracting the interest of political and business stakeholders in order to meet the needs of the present generations without compromising future ones.

Business activities play a fundamental role in the control of every stage of the value creation and production chain and thus in their impacts on the use of resources and the natural environment. On the other hand, just business activities can represent a powerful instrument to help achieve sustainability.

In recent decades, research on sustainability represents a multidisciplinary form of investigation and has continuously grown and attracted a great deal of interest.

In relation to sustainability, air, water, and soil pollution represent problems for industrialized societies. Thus, this Special Issue wishes to focus on innovative research and strategies of sustainability, with particular regard to the thermodynamic analysis of biofuel and bioplastic production, in order to respond to the abovementioned problems of pollution.

Dr. Umberto Lucia
Prof. Dr. Debora Fino
Dr. Giulia Grisolia
Guest Editors

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