Green Technologies: Bridging Conventional Practices and Industry 4.0

Dear Colleagues,

Green technologies have been globally accepted as efficient and sustainable techniques for the utilization of natural resources. Currently, Industry 4.0, which is also called a “smart industry”, aims for the integration of cyber and physical systems to minimize waste and maximize productivity.  Therefore, green technologies can be identified as key components in Industry 4.0. The scope of this Special Issue is to address how conventional green technologies can be part of smart industries by minimizing waste, maximizing productivity, optimizing the supply chain, or by additive manufacturing (3D printing). This theme is focusing on the scope and challenges of integrating current environmental technologies in future industries.

This Special Issue, Green Technologies: Bridging Conventional Practices and Industry 4.0, aims to incorporate the advances in green technologies to cyber-based industries. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Development of new disease-specific models to guide therapy;
• 3D printing
• Air pollution monitoring and control
• Carbon emission reduction
• Computational tools for environmental applications
• Energy and environmental policy
• Environmental monitoring, assessment and management
• Industry 4.0
• Process system engineering
• Renewable energy
• Solid/biomass waste treatment, management, and recycling
• Waste minimisation

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