Energy, Economic and Environment for Industrial Production Processes

Dear Colleagues,

Facing significant natural resource consumption, environmental degradation, and the resulting climate warming, national administrations have increased their focus on ecological modernization, green growth, and low carbon development, with a national sustainability strategy. The industrial sector, recognized as an important pillar in the national economy, brings vast amounts of energy consumption at a low efficiency and high carbon emissions, becoming the walls to the coordinated development of the energy, economic, and environment. Studying the nexus between energy, economy, and environment (3E) of industrial production processes is a significant issue for promoting industrial sustainable development.

The scope of the Processes journal covers research in chemistry, biology, materials and allied engineering fields. Thus, in this Special Issue, we invite articles focused on research regarding the chemistry, biology, materials and allied engineering firms (manufacturing processes, iron and steel production processes, mining processes, power generation processes, and so on).

This Special Issue will focus on publishing original research works about 3E for industrial production processes including discrete production processes and process production processes, from various aspects that tackle product, process, and system issues in production. The aim is to report the state-of-the-art on relevant research topics and highlight the barriers, challenges, and opportunities we are facing. It also welcomes studies that stimulate the research discussion of moving towards production in a particular industrial sector.

Topics of interest for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to:

• The nexus between 3E in industrial production processes
• 3E modelling and analysis in industrial production processes
• 3E assessment and optimization in industrial production processes
• Performance indicators and certifications of 3E in industrial production processes
• Data-driven 3E for industrial production processes
• Green production and process optimization
• Cleaner energy production
• Carbon emission and accounting in the industrial sector
• Industrial energy efficiency

Dr. Wei Cai
Prof. Dr. Guangdong Tian
Prof. MengChu Zhou
Prof. Fu Zhao
Dr. Jorge Cunha
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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