Clean Combustion and Emission Control Technologies
A special issue of Processes (ISSN 2227-9717). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2026 | Viewed by 15
Special Issue Editors
Interests: thermal conversion (including combustion, pyrolysis, and gasification); solid fuels and waste; pollutants migration and control; reaction kinetics; disposal of retired new energy devices
Interests: gaseous pollutant control (NO, Hg0, VOCs, CO); resource utilization of organic solid waste; recycling of spent lithium-ion battery
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Interests: gaseous mercury control technologies; mercury speciation analysis; resource utilization of photovoltaic solid waste
Interests: multiphase fine particle control; carbon capture and mineralisation utilization; traditional/new energy waste heat recovery and utilization; intelligent operation and control of desulphurization and denitrification; zero discharge and resource recovery of desulphurization wastewater
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Combustion is one of the earliest methods humans have actively utilized to harness energy and has been a key driver of human civilization's progress. To this day, combustion continues to play a crucial role in modern societal development, making significant contributions across various sectors, including energy, manufacturing, transportation, and cooking. However, combustion inevitably results in the production of certain pollutants (NOx, SOx, PM, etc.) and secondary waste products (fly ash, gypsum, wastewater, etc.). In the global context of addressing climate change, promoting energy transition, and implementing stricter environmental regulations, developing efficient and clean combustion technologies and effectively controlling pollutant emissions have become core challenges and urgent needs for human development. This Special Issue, “Clean Combustion and Emission Control Technologies,” aims to compile the latest research progress, innovative technologies, and profound insights in this field, focusing on two key pathways: reducing pollutant generation at the source (clean combustion) and efficiently removing pollutants at the end (emission control), to support the clean utilization of energy and improve environmental quality.
This Special Issue sincerely invites and plans to include high-quality original research papers and reviews covering (but not limited to) the following themes:
- Combustion (including pyrolysis and gasification);
- Low/zero-carbon fuel combustion or co-combustion;
- Novel combustion technologies;
- Sulfur, nitrogen, particulate matter, and VOCs control technologies;
- Heavy metal control technologies;
- Disposal of by-products (fly ash, gypsum, wastewater, etc.);
- Clean disposal of solid waste;
- CO2 capture;
- Combustion testing and diagnostics;
- AI-driven efficient clean combustion.
We sincerely invite experts and scholars in related fields to submit their papers!
Dr. Renjie Zou
Dr. Yang Xu
Dr. Xuelei Duan
Prof. Dr. Lin Cui
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- combustion
- pyrolysis
- gasification
- pollutant
- biomass
- hydrogen/ammonia
- DeNOx/SO2
- adsorption/absorption
- catalysis
- modelling
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