Engineering Solutions for Sustainable Energy Systems: From Process Integration to Decarbonization
A special issue of Processes (ISSN 2227-9717). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2026 | Viewed by 1
Special Issue Editors
Interests: energy improvement; renewable energy; waste heat recovery; process optimization under uncertainty
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Energy systems are designed to satisfy process heating, cooling, and power demands. Energy efficiency improvement plays a critical role in cost-effective design while making minimal environmental impact. Furthermore, sustainable energy generation to replace fossil fuel use provides a viable route to energy decarbonization.
Sustainable energy needs a systematic analysis to improve process overall robustness and performance. Such system optimization is challenging due to the strong interactions among different energy sources, complex system configuration, diverse energy generation technologies and uncertain process utility demands.
The Special Issue, titled “Engineering Solutions for Sustainable Energy Systems: From Process Integration to Decarbonization”, invites novel contributions and comprehensive reviews from all aspects of energy systems and focuses on the following issues, among others:
- Renewable energy generation replacing fossil fuel-based energy;
- Hybrid energy system design and retrofit;
- Advanced modelling and algorithms;
- Waste heat recovery;
- Techno-economic analysis;
- Machine learning for system optimization.
Dr. Li Sun
Dr. Andy Durrant
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- renewable energy
- energy optimization
- waste heat recovery
- sustainable development
- decarbonization
- machine learning
- system operational optimization
- carbon footprint
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