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- Energy Sustainability Section
- Sustainable Urban and Rural Development Section
- Sustainable Agriculture Section
- Sustainable Education and Approaches Section
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- Sustainable Chemical Engineering and Technology Section
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- Geography and Sustainability Section
- Psychology of Sustainability and Sustainable Development Section
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- Air, Climate Change and Sustainability Section
- Sustainability, Biodiversity and Conservation Section
- Sustainable Food Section
- Health, Well-Being and Sustainability Section
- Hazards and Sustainability Section
- Sustainable Materials Section
- Sustainable Management Section
- Green Building Section
- Soil Conservation and Sustainability Section
- Sustainable Forestry Section
- Waste and Recycling Section
- Sustainable Oceans Section
- Sustainable Water Management Section
- Pollution Prevention, Mitigation and Sustainability Section
- Bioeconomy of Sustainability Section
Section Board for 'Energy Sustainability' (153)
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Interests: prospective; long term planning; emission mitigation; energy transition; energy system; human behavior; decision mathematics; policy makers
Interests: HVAC; energy efficiency; energy saving in final users; sea wave; renewable energy
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Special Issue in Energies: Life Cycle Assessment of Renewable Energy Sources
Special Issue in Energies: High-Efficiency Energy Harvesting and Saving
Special Issue in Energies: Energy Saving in Public Transport
Special Issue in Sustainability: Energy-Saving Approaches in Non-Residential Buildings

Interests: international trade – free trade agreements, Brexit, trade-climate action; renewable energy and sustainable development; clean energy trade; East Asia – China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Southeast Asia economies; regional economic integration; energy security and the global economic system; new maritime trade routes (especially Northern Sea Route)

Interests: biomass waste to energy; biomass energy policy; climate policy; carbon capture; utilization and storage (CCUS)
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Interests: biomass; waste recycling; carbon materials; environmental catalysis
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Special Issue in Molecules: Recycling of Biomass Resources: Biofuels and Biochemicals
Interests: nuclear physics; astrophysics; Fusion Reaction; Radiation Detection

Interests: renewable energy; smart grid; smart city; power system; motor drive; control; optimization; power electronics; zero energy house/building; DC smart grid; HVDC system
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Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Photovoltaic Generation
Special Issue in Sustainability: Sustainable Electric Power Systems Research
Special Issue in Energies: Emerging Power Electronics Technologies for Power Systems and Machine Drives
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Renewable Energy 2018
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Emerging Power Electronics Technologies
Special Issue in Energies: Advanced Techniques for Electronic Power and Energy Systems
Topical Collection in Sustainability: Sustainable Electric Power Systems Research
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Voltage Stability
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Novel Power Electronics Technologies in Power Systems
Special Issue in Energies: Electronic Power and Energy Systems
Special Issue in Sustainability: Smart City and Zero Energy House/Building
Special Issue in Sustainability: Shaping Sustainability as a Lifestyle through Designing Agile Energy Strategies: Acting Responsibly and Thinking Sustainably
Special Issue in Energies: Fault Analysis and Protection Scheme for Multi-terminal HVDC Transmission Networks
Special Issue in Energies: Power System Planning and Quality Control
Special Issue in Energies: State-of-the-Art Energy Related Technologies in Japan 2021
Special Issue in Sustainability: Feature Papers in Energy Sustainability
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Renewable-Based Microgrids: Design, Control and Optimization
Special Issue in Sustainability: Smart Grid and Control System for Higher Resilience and Reliability
Special Issue in Energies: Energy Processing and Smart Grid
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Energy Management, Planning and Operation of Distributed Energy Resources in Smart Grids
Interests: photovoltaic system; QU automatic control; inverter grided; PLC application
Interests: meteorology; disaster weather; energy budget

Interests: nuclear reactor thermal hydraulics; diffusion and deposition of particules; environmental transport of radionuclides; small modul reactor; comprehensive energy
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Interests: energy harvester; machine learning; millimeter-wave
Interests: internal combustion engines; alternative fuels; heat transfer; combustion; emissions; hydrogen; alcohol fuels; methanol; ethanol; diesel; vehicles; thermodynamics

Interests: refrigeration; heat pumps; low global warming potential refrigerants; organic Rankine cycle; energy conversion; phase change materials; energy efficiency
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Special Issue in Energies: High-Temperature Heat Pumps (HTHP) and Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) for Waste Heat Revalorization in the Industrial Sector
Special Issue in Energies: Refrigeration Systems and Applications 2020
Topics: Cooling Technologies and Applications

Interests: industrial engineering; industrial symbiosis; energy management; sustainability; circular economy; additive manufacturing; lean manufacturing; quality management systems; sustainable energy systems
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Sustainable Energy Systems: Optimization and Efficiency
Special Issue in Electronics: Industrial Applications of Power Electronics
Special Issue in Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks: Advanced Instrumentation for Power Converter Applications
Special Issue in Sustainability: Industrial Symbiosis and Sustainability
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Resilient and Sustainable Distributed Energy Systems
Special Issue in Energies: Planning, Integration and Management in Sustainable Energy Systems
Special Issue in Sustainability: Additive Manufacturing and Sustainability in the Digital Age: People, Factories and Businesses of the Future
Special Issue in Electronics: Industrial Applications of Power Electronics II
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Data Mining Applications in Industry 4.0
Special Issue in Electronics: Recent Advanced Applications of Virtual Industrial Informatics and Robotics
Special Issue in Energies: Sustainable and Smart Energy Management Systems: Energy 4.0 in Supply and Demand Side
Topical Collection in Sustainability: Industrial Symbiosis

Interests: energy systems; engines; gas turbines; renewable energy; bioenergy; biomass gasification; process simulations; CHP
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Interests: sustainability; life cycle assessment; carbon footprint; environmental impact; rural electrification; off grid electrification; solar e-cooking

Interests: eco-friendly cooling and heating technologies; R744; two-phase ejectors; exergy; renewable energy technologies; natural working fluids; CCHP systems
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Interests: sustainable development; environmental pollution; nanomaterials; wastewater treatment; renewable energy technologies; bioenergy; biomass; catalysis; thermochemical conversion; climate change mitigation; hybrid nanomaterials; waste minimization; energy optimization; clean fossil fuels; carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS)
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Interests: energy and food sustainability; electric power systems; decision making under uncertainty
Interests: shale oil; fracturing; optimization

Interests: hybrid energy system; renewable energy; solar energy; energy optimization
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Interests: green construction; smart energy; life cycle thinking

Interests: fermentation; biofuels and biomolecules production via microbial processes (biohydrogen, bioethanol, polyhydroxyalkanoates, antioxidants), biological and thermochemical fractionation of lignocellulose; recovery of nutrients from wastes; risk assessment
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Interests: distributed generation; combined cooling heating and power; solar energy; concentrated solar power; renewable energy technologies integrated into the built environment; organic Rankine cycle systems; Stirling engines; novel energy conversion technologies
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Interests: innovative technologies for systems energy efficiency and the net zero energy building (NZEB) goal, such as new solar collectors and renewable energies, new HVAC systems and controls; novel construction materials, building-to-vehicle-to-building, vehicle-to-grid; building physics; thermodynamic, economic and environmental analysis of power systems; development of dynamic simulation tools for energy, economic and environmental performance analyses of systems; thermo-fluid dynamic measurements (innovative measurement devices for water and gas flow rate, temperature, etc.); monitoring of industrial processes; industrial local ventilation devices
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Interests: renewable energy; bioenergy systems analysis; sustainability assessment; bioeconomy; sustainable development
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Interests: energy conversion in water and wastewater systems; application of renewable energy in water resources engineering; machine learning for water resources; environmental fluid mechanics

Interests: sustainable building energy technologies; novel absorption heating and cooling technologies; renewable and waste energy technologies; advanced heat pump technologies; natural and low-GWP refrigerants; net-zero energy buildings (nzebs)
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Interests: sustainable energy solutions; bioenergy; high-pressure combustion; hydrothermal flames; renewable energy; biomass/biowaste utilization; hydrothermal processing

Interests: heritage building; indoor and outdoor microclimates; building energy performance; monitoring campaign; building simulation; cultural heritage
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Interests: sustainability; energy efficiency; artificial intelligence; smart city; digital twin; applications of the Internet of Things; advanced GIS; LiDAR; BIM; digital technology in infrastructure; mixed reality applications; information and communication technology; spatial analysis and visualization; authentic education
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue in Informatics: Artificial Intelligence and Sensor Informatics: Exploring Smart City and Construction Business Implications
Special Issue in Education Sciences: Construction and Built Environment Education in A Digital Context
Special Issue in ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information: Geospatial Artificial Intelligence, GIS or BIM: Applications for Construction, Smart City and Urban Planning
Special Issue in Sustainability: Spatial Big Data, BIM and GIS Visualization: Sustainable, Resilience and Smart Cities
Special Issue in Sensors: Sensors, Real-Time Applications and Data Fusion in Smart City, Building and Construction
Special Issue in Technologies: Advances in Built Environment, Construction and Mining Technologies: Industry Readiness and Technology Maturity and Managerial Challenges
Special Issue in Energies: Energy Efficiency in Smart Buildings and Cities: Current and Future Digital Systems
Special Issue in Buildings: Sustainability and Energy Efficiency in Smart Cities and Construction
Special Issue in Buildings: Sustainable Buildings in the Built Environment
Special Issue in Journal of Risk and Financial Management: Risk Management in the Built Environment: Economic Impacts, Innovative Solutions, Disasters, or COVID-19 Disruptions
Special Issue in Sensors: Digital Twins, Sensing Technologies and Automation in Industry 4.0
Special Issue in Automation: Digital Twins, Sensing Technologies and Automation in Industry 4.0
Special Issue in Geomatics: Geospatial Artificial Intelligence, GIS or BIM: Applications for Construction, Smart City and Urban Planning Volume II
Topics: Advances in Sustainable Communities, Neighborhoods and 15-Minute Cities-Theory, Methods and Techniques

Interests: power electronics; renewable energy; fuel cell; hybrid power systems; control; optimization
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Special Issue in Sustainability: Efficiency and Sustainability of the Distributed Renewable Hybrid Power Systems Based on the Energy Internet, Blockchain Technology and Smart Contracts
Special Issue in Mathematics: Advanced Modeling and Research in Hybrid Microgrid Control and Optimization
Special Issue in Journal of Low Power Electronics and Applications: Advanced Researches in Wireless Communication and Wireless Power Transfer
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Energy Management and Diagnostics of Grid-Connected Electric and Hybrid Vehicles
Special Issue in Electronics: Microgrids Integrating Renewable Energy Sources, Fuel Cells and Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles
Special Issue in Energies: Fuel Cell Renewable Hybrid Power Systems 2021
Special Issue in Mathematics: Advanced Modeling, Control, and Optimization Methods in Power Hybrid Systems - 2021
Special Issue in Journal of Low Power Electronics and Applications: Advanced Researches in Embedded Systems
Topical Collection in Energies: Featured Papers in Electrical Power and Energy System
Special Issue in Sustainability: Efficiency and Sustainability of the Distributed Renewable Hybrid Power Systems based on the Energy Internet, Blockchain Technology and Smart Contracts-2021
Special Issue in Energies: Selected Papers from Interdisciplinary Conference on Mechanics, Computers and Electrics (ICMECE2021)

Interests: built-environmental science; thermodynamics; heat-transfer science

Interests: enhanced heat transfer; microchannel; thermal management; electronics cooling
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Interests: renewable energy resources; power system applications; smart and micro grids
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals

Interests: building energy saving; HVAC efficiency; experimental analysis; innovative materials; historic buildings; dynamic simulation; local energy planning; sustainable building sector; Life cycle Assessment (LCA); nearly zero energy buildings (nZEBs)
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2. Energy Systems Analytics Research Group, Catalonia Institute for Energy Research (IREC), Barcelona, Spain
Interests: statistics and operational research applied to energy systems; uncertainty modeling; energy markets optimization models; electro mobility; and energy management systems
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Interests: food systems; sustainability; life cycle assessment; energy efficiency; waste valorisation

Interests: distributed generation; energy storage; cogeneration; renewable energy; multi energy systems; hydrogen; local energy planning; energy policy; local energy communities

Interests: gas hydrate; hydrogen storage; fuel processing system; tri-generation
Interests: engineering sustainability; systems operation management for sustainability; engineering project management; environmental management and policy

Interests: life-cycle assessment; energy; sustainable development; life cycle thinking; environmental impact assessment; environment; renewable energy technologies; environmental analysis; sustainable consumption and production; sustainable agriculture
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue in Buildings: Sustainability and Energy Efficiency of the Built Environment: from the Single Building to the District Scale
Special Issue in Energies: Life Cycle Assessment of Sustainable Energy System
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: New Trends in Efficient Buildings

Interests: energy policy; grid integration; sustainable energy development; wind energy systems
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Interests: biomass and bioenergy; biomass processing and handling; biomaterial densification; solid waste processing and management technologies; refuse-derived fuel (RDF) processing
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Interests: thermal energy conversion and storage; renewable energy; renewables system integration; HVAC systems; sorption systems; heat pumps; thermal energy storage; hybrid systems; polygeneration systems; energy system simulation
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue in Sustainability: Women for Sustainable Energy
Special Issue in Thermo: Hybrid Energy Recovery, Storage and Utilization in Buildings and Industrial Applications
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Design and System Integration of Thermal Energy Storage: Volume 2

Interests: renewable energy; energy generation; conversion and storage; alternative fuels for internal combustion engine; microalgae fuel; mechanical method for water treatment
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue in Energies: Renewable Energy for Agriculture
Special Issue in Energies: Energy for Agriculture
Special Issue in Energies: Energy and Water, Current and Future Crisis
Special Issue in Energies: Recent development in the field of biofuels from agricultural industry
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Renewable Fuels
Special Issue in Energies: Energy and Water for World Agriculture 2019
Special Issue in Energies: Selected Papers from the 8th International Congress on Energy and Environment Engineering and Management (8ICEEEM)
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Biodiesel: Production and Applications
Special Issue in Sustainability: Renewable Energy and Environmental Pollution
Special Issue in Sustainability: Alternate and Renewable Energy Options in Aviation and Aerospace
Special Issue in Energies: Feature Papers in Hydrogen Energy
Special Issue in Energies: Advances in Alternative Fuels for Internal Combustion Engine and Environmental Pollution
Special Issue in Energies: Recent Advances within Alternative Fuel Production and Application for Internal Combustion Engines
Special Issue in Sustainability: Research Advances and Future Trends in Renewable Energy and Enabling Technologies

Interests: energy economics; energy analysis; energy metabolism
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Interests: global energy governance; global energy politics; geopolitics of the energy transition

Interests: the grid integration of renewable energy sources; smart grids; and microgrids; power system stability and security; AC-DC grids modellling and control; power converters and advanced control techniques
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Interests: Renewable and sustainable energy; energy plants; agrobiomass and residues; woody biomass; solid biofuels; pressed biomass; biofuel properties; burning; harmful emissions; evaluation of technologies
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals

Interests: power and energy systems modelling and dynamics; renewable energy; electricity markets and energy storage
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals

Interests: applied artificial intelligence; smart power; intelligent systems; forecasting; intelligent data analytics
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue in Energies: Intelligent Energy Systems and Energy Policy
Special Issue in Micromachines: Nanoparticles: Optical Properties and Applications

Interests: smart green building; zero energy building solution; sustainability assessment; cyberphysical system; decision support system
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Interests: photovoltaic energy conversion; heat transfer; electronics and Information Systems
Interests: photovoltaics; energy efficiency; advanced glazings; energy storage; building energy modelling; electricity network modelling

Interests: nano additives; nanocomposites in energy systems; future energy systems; energy storage & conversion; renewable/clean energy research; alterative/cleaner fuels
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Special Issue in Journal of Composites Science: Opportunities for Composites in the Future Energy Systems
Special Issue in Sustainability: Cleaner Fuels in Future Energy Systems
Special Issue in Sustainability: Hydrogen Economy: Challenges and Opportunities

Interests: energy efficiency; smart materials; environmental sustainability; buildings; renewable energy; environmental comfort
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: building science; modeling of the built environment; building energy and environmental systems; energy-efficient buildings; building energy simulations; building control; computational fluid dynamics; indoor air quality; sustainable and smart cities
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals

Interests: physical chemistry; environmental chemistry; renewable energy sources; life cycle assessment of energy processes; sustainable energy storage
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Topical Collection in Energies: Energy-Efficient Chemistry

Interests: energy efficiency; energy systems; industrial decarbonization; electrification; carbon capture and utilization; process integration

Interests: comparative risk assessment; sustainability; energy security; critical infrastructure protection; multicriteria decision analysis; energy policy; scenario analysis; resilience; databases; GIS
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals

Interests: concepts of expansion grid planning (power, heat, gas grids); central and decentral grid control (power, heat, gas grids); energy management systems; hybrid-energy networks; meta-heuristics; model-predictive control; agent-based operation; economic optimization; grid integration of flexibilities and storage systems; robust optimization; bi-level optimization; distributed optimizations; hybrid energy systems (e.g. PV, CHP, battery, thermal storage); generation and analysis of load profiles and other time series; open source energy data; data analysis of energy grids
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals

Interests: building physics; building energy systems; energy efficiency; integrated solutions for daylight and electric lighting; smart window, building façades
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals

Interests: smart grid; renewable integration; transmission and generation planning; power system stability; demand Response; electricity pricing

Interests: bioenergy; biomass energy conversion technologies; biofuel; biomass supply chain and logistics; feedstocks pre-treatments; agro-industrial wastes; agricultural reuse of by-products from biomass energy conversion; particulate matter, ammonia, and greenhouse gas emissions monitoring and control

Interests: modelling; control and optimization of complex engineering system; artificial intelligence and machine learning; limited and big data
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue in Energies: Intelligent Energy Systems for Vehicles and Robots
Special Issue in Energies: Modelling, Control and Optimisation of Complex Energy Systems
Special Issue in Sustainability: Circular Economy and Artificial Intelligence
Topics: Artificial Intelligence in Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy

Interests: blockchain; advancing systems analysis; big data, energy security; climate change technological innovations; digitalization
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals

Interests: life-cycle assessment; eco-design; industrial ecology; circular economy; life-cycle sustainability assessment; sustainable energy systems
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals

Interests: renewable energy systems; process simulation; bioenergy; thermodynamic sustainability; combined heat and power; polygeneration systems; bio-hydrogen production
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals

Interests: innovative (operation/control) schemes to optimise the performance of future energy systems
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue in Energies: Energy Storage for Grid Integration of Renewable Energy
Special Issue in Sustainability: Advances and Experiences in Protection Systems in Modern Power Systems
Special Issue in Energies: Opportunities and Challenges for Power Electronics and Drives

Interests: renewable energies; sea wave; wave energy converters; wind energy; energy savings; energy plan; hvac
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue in Energies: Life Cycle Assessment of Renewable Energy Sources
Special Issue in Sustainability: Energy-Saving Approaches in Non-Residential Buildings

Interests: solar thermal energy; integration of renewable energy sources; energy optimization; thermal energy storage; advanced power cycles; combined heat and power; power plant technologies; thermodynamics optimization; turbomachinery characterization; additive manufacturing
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue in Entropy: Supercritical Fluids for Thermal Energy Applications
Special Issue in Thermo: Thermal Energy Modelling for Renewable Energy Applications

Interests: electrical power engineering; power systems analysis & planning; decision-making under uncertainty

Interests: economic evaluation of biomass for energy use; economics of solar energy; complex energy systems; energy plants and plantations; feasibility of renewable energy plants; investment analysis
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue in Energies: Alternative Fuels in Transportation
Interests: modelling, intelligent control and optimisation of renewable energy systems; energy management of smart homes; optimisation and control of future smart grids; electric vehicles, charging management and demand response (V2G and G2V); dynamic wireless charging of electric vehicles; smart mobility
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue in Energies: Dynamic Scheduling, Optimisation and Control of Futures Smart Grids
Special Issue in Sustainability: Sustainable Development and Optimisation of Energy Systems

Interests: renewable energy; energy saving; biomass; sustainability; power quality; smart grids
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue in Energies: Energy Saving at Cities
Special Issue in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health: Health Environment and Sustainable Development
Special Issue in Sustainability: Renewable Energy and Energy Saving: Worldwide Research Trends
Special Issue in Energies: The Sustainable City: Advances in Renewable Energy and Energy Saving Systems
Topical Collection in Energies: Review Papers in Energy and Environment
Special Issue in Sustainability: Worldwide Advances in Renewable Energies and Energy Efficiency
Interests: energy economics; regulatory economics; sustainability economics; environmental economics; resource economics; energy policy; energy in developing countries

Interests: gasification; bioenergy; solar thermal energy; thermal energy storage; hybrid/integrated renewable/sustainable energy systems
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals

Interests: civil & hydraulic engineering informatics; project quantitative analytics for sustainable engineering and the built environment; decision, risk, failure analysis & disaster management
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue in Energies: Forecasting and Optimization of Energy Use in Buildings
Special Issue in CivilEng: Urban Disaster Risk Reduction and Management

Interests: renewable energy; distributed generation; power systems planning with renewable energy; grid integration of renewable generation; electrical engineering

Interests: renewable energy; energy storage; energy efficiency; optimization; energy systems
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Interests: climate change; mitigation; ecodesign; life cycle assessment; circular economy; sustainability
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals

Interests: building energy; building performance simulation; building energy flexibility and grid interaction; indoor thermal environment; heating and ventilation systems; heat pumps for buildings; building integration of energy systems; computational fluid dynamics for airflows inside buildings

Interests: BIM and energy modelling; Building Performance Evaluation; energy modelling and sustainability analysis; zero carbon buildings
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Interests: integration of building services and energy systems in architecture and urbanism; fire safety; water management; electricity; heating; ventilation; cooling; data networks; thermoelectricity; biomimicry
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals

Interests: thermochemical energy storage; PM abatement; energy efficiency; energy materials; power plants; low carbon economy; circular economy; prognosis and model base maintenance

Interests: energy systems analysis; thermochemical conversion of biomass; techno-economic assessments

Interests: coupled processes; uncertainty quantification; subsurface monitoring
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Interests: renewable energy; solar resources forecasting; PV systems; solar thermal systems; energy production and use in islands

Interests: data mining; artificial intelligence; solar energy; urban energy sustainability
Interests: renewable energy integration; modelling; sizing; flexibility levers; planning studies; energy markets
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Special Issue in Sustainability: Sustainable, Resilient Evolving Microgrids
Special Issue in Electronics: Real-Time Applications for Power-Systems

Interests: energy; sustainability; renewable energy sources; exergy analysis; exergo-economic analysis; exergo-environmental analysis
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Special Issue in Sustainability: Geothermal Energy–Social Acceptance and Sustainable Development
Special Issue in Sustainability: Sustainability of Geothermal Energy Conversion—Life Cycle Analysis

Interests: intelligent assets management systems; reliability and maintenance engineering and management; advance optimization techniques
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Special Issue in Sustainability: Intelligent Assets Life-Cycle Management: Railway and Rolling-Stock Whole-Life Asset Approach for a Future Global Sustainable Transport Model
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Sustainability and Resilience of Engineering Assets
Special Issue in Information: New Trends and Digital Tools from Industry 4.0 Applied to Optimize Asset Management, Reliability and Maintenance Processes

Interests: solar energy; the development of measuring devices and procedures for magnitudes related with concentrated solar radiation as high irradiance; high superficial temperature; material emittance and atmospheric attenuation of solar radiation

Interests: sustainable logistics and supply chain management; energy efficiency; industrial symbiosis; energy storage system
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Industry 4.0 Technologies Supporting the Energy Transition
Special Issue in Sustainability: Energy Efficiency Measures in Supply Chain Systems
Interests: power electronics; electrical and electronics engineering; electrical power engineering; power converters; renewable energy technologies; power systems simulation; power engineering; power systems modelling; electricity; power conversion
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals

Interests: energy sustainability; urban energy grids; energy recovery; environmental impact of ports

Interests: thermal energy storage; building; energy efficiency; renewable energy; social acceptance of technologies; climate change mitigation
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Phase Change Material (PCM) 2017
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Materials for Thermal Energy Storage
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Materials for Thermal Energy Storage-Volume II
Special Issue in Sustainability: Life-Cycle Assessment of Energy Storage in Building Applications
Topical Collection in Energies: Women's Research in Smart Energy Systems
Special Issue in Sustainability: Women for Sustainable Energy
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Commissioning New and Existing Buildings
Special Issue in Energies: Application of Advanced Energy Materials in Building Heat Transfer System
Special Issue in Sustainability: Research Frontiers in Energy Audit and Sustainability in Energy Efficiency

Interests: wireless networks; communication & coding theory; device-to-device communications; energy-efficiency; 5G communication systems; machine learning for future networks; mobile edge computing
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Interests: smart grids; scheduling; active distribution networks; power systems; energy economics; renewable energy integration
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue in Sustainability: Game Theoretic Strategies for Efficient Energy Management of Home-Microgrids
Special Issue in Processes: Development of Energy Management in Distribution Networks with Energy Storage Systems
Special Issue in Energies: Design, Planning and Evaluation of Flexible Power Systems
Special Issue in Energies: Optimization for Charging and Discharging of Electric Vehicles

Interests: solar powered electric vehicle (EV); first, second, and third-generation PV for BIPV/BAPV; energy-positive building and electric vehicles; low-concentrating PV (LSC, CPC, holography)
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue in Energies: Recent Advances in Renewable Energy and Clean Energy
Special Issue in Energies: Challenges and Opportunities in the Integration of Solar Photovoltaics in Developing Countries
Special Issue in World Electric Vehicle Journal: Electric Vehicles—Solution toward Zero Emission from the Transport Sector
Special Issue in World Electric Vehicle Journal: Electric Vehicles and Charging Facilities for a Sustainable Transport Sector

Interests: dual-fuel; combustion; hybrid vehicles; life cycle analysis
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Hybrid Vehicle Technologies for a Sustainable Future Mobility

Interests: nearly zero-energy buildings; building sector; biomass; bioenergy; rural development
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals

Interests: batteries; lithium-ion; lead-acid; supercaps; lithium-air; zinc-air; simulation; impedance spectroscopy; ageing; battery management system; state determination
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Interests: Physical Oceanography; Coastal and Estuarine Hydrodynamics; river plume dynamics; coastal upwelling; atmosphere-ocean interaction; climate change impact; renewable energies (wave and wind energies)
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Interests: entrepreneurship; management; start-up; intangible; knowledge transfer; energy engineering
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Special Issue in Processes: Biodiesel Production Processes and Technology
Special Issue in Sustainability: Sustainability and Entrepreneurship

Interests: power electronics; renewable systems; microgrids; electric vehicles; power quality; power systems simulation; metaheuristic optimization
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Special Issue in Electronics: Grid-Connected Renewable Energy Sources
Special Issue in Energies: Electrical Power Engineering: Efficiency and Control Strategies
Special Issue in Electronics: Power System Simulation with Renewable Power: Protection, Optimization and Control
Special Issue in Sensors: Measurements, Predictions, and Control in Microgrids and Power Electronic System
Special Issue in Electronics: Feature Papers in Power Electronics
Special Issue in Electronics: Smart Distribution System Analysis: Optimization and Control

Interests: sustainable energy systems; energy storage; optimisation; systems integration; networks

Interests: carbon materials from petroleum and coal; undesirable carbon deposition in engine fuel and lubrication systems and in process units preparation of activated carbons; preparation of activated carbons; upgrading petroleum residua; catalytic oxidation of solid carbons

Interests: solar radiation; photovoltaics; sustainable energy systems
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue in Sustainability: Solar Energy and Electric Mobility

Interests: wind-power and boundary-layer meteorology; wind resources and siting; remote sensing; lidar; atmospheric turbulence; data analysis and interpretation; meso- and micro-scale modeling
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Interests: the causes and consequences of environmental conflicts and how ecological factors can promote peace; environmental conflicts in the mineral sector and the extractive industries
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals

Interests: large-scale energy systems; energy markets; electricity markets; climate change mitigation in energy systems; district heating; energy and climate policy

Interests: sustainable rehabilitation; historical buildings; renewable energy; green infrastructures; construction site management; recycled and smart materials
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue in Sustainability: The Adaptive Reuse of Buildings: A Sustainable Alternative towards Circular Economy Solutions
Special Issue in Energies: Multidisciplinary Approach Toward All Phases of WEEE Life Cycle for Economic and Sustainable Electronic-Wastes Recovery
Special Issue in Sustainability: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy for Cities’ Energy Transition: Advances in Energy Efficiency in Buildings from a Sustainability Perspective
Special Issue in Sensors: Construction 4.0: Sensors and Process for Building Management

Interests: energy efficiency; energy economics; renewable energy; energy simulation; energy optimization
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue in Energies: Alternative Energy Systems in Buildings
Special Issue in Sustainability: Locally Available Energy Sources and Sustainability
Special Issue in Sustainability: Socio-Economic Impacts of Bioenergy Production
Special Issue in Energies: Energy-Water Nexus
Special Issue in Energies: Life Cycle & Technoeconomic Modeling
Special Issue in Electronics: Microgrids and Resiliency
Special Issue in Energies: Biomass Energy Systems
Special Issue in Electronics: Microgrids and Active Distribution Networks
Special Issue in Sustainability: Microgrids and Other Local Area Power and Energy Systems
Special Issue in Electronics: Power Distribution System Reliability
Special Issue in Energies: Electric Vehicle Charging Strategy to Support Renewable Energy Sources
Special Issue in Sustainability: Boosting Power Systems Sustainability through IoT Applications
Special Issue in Electronics: Resilience Metrics Development for Power Systems
Interests: integrated assessment modelling; energy systems analysis; modelling uncertainty; long term energy transitions

Interests: energy economics; climate change; energy; renewable energy; electricity; energy policy
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2. Advanced Radiation Technology Institute (ARTI), Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI), Jeonbuk 56212, Korea
3. Quantum Energy Chemical Engineering, University of Science and Technology, 217, Gajeong-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34113, Korea
Interests: radiochemistry; radiation chemistry; nanomaterials; nanotechnology; nuclear energy; decommissioning and decontamination science and technology; environmental science and technology; radioactive isotopes; radiation; chemical engineering; separation technology; catalysis; biotechnology; education; sustainability; chemosensors
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Special Issue in ChemEngineering: Chemical Engineering and Multidisciplinary
Special Issue in Energies: Nulcear Energy and Technology
Special Issue in Nanomaterials: Nanomaterials in Nuclear Decommissioning and Decontamination Technology
Special Issue in Chemosensors: Radiation-Based Sensors and Nanosensors

Interests: geothermal modelling; computational fluid dynamics

Interests: building energy; geothermal heating and cooling; energy geotechnics; thermal energy storage; thermal energy networks; building simulation methods
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Special Issue in Energies: Modelling and Monitoring of Geothermal Heating and Cooling Systems

Interests: thermal systems; active solar systems; passive solar systems; heat transfer with nanofluids and porous media; forecast of energy consumption
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Special Issue in Entropy: Entropy Generation Minimization II
Special Issue in Entropy: Heat Transfer in Nanofluids and Porous Media
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: New Insights in Nano Technology for Heat Transfer

Interests: sustainable energy systems; circular economy; lifecycle assessment; greenhouse gas inventory; industrial ecology

Interests: lifecyle assessment (LCA); energy science and engineering; energy systems; social science and technology; innovation; resources and environment development economics, etc.

Interests: accelerating the advances in electrochemistry research through to electrochemical engineering scale-up including cell design engineering; device manufacturing (battery, supercapacitor) and process optimisation (chemical, electrochemical)
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Interests: energy policy; sustainable and renewable energy planning; energy linkage; sustainable development goals (sdgs)
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Interests: energy and environmental engineering systems; air pollution modeling, simulation anenergy and environmental engineering systems; air pollution modeling; planning and optimization; sustainable development of the petrochemical industry.
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Special Issue in Sustainability: Optimization and Big Data Analytics to Improve Profitability and Sustainability of the Oil and Gas Industry
Special Issue in Energies: Data Analytics in Energy Systems
Special Issue in Energies: Optimization and Control of Energy Systems Planning with Environmental Considerations and Carbon Capture and Sequestration
Special Issue in Energies: COVID-19 Crisis Implications on the Energy Sector and on the Environment
Special Issue in Energies: Resilient and Flexible Energy Systems
Special Issue in Sustainability: Optimization in Sustainable Design and Location of Networked Facilities and Reverse Logistics
Special Issue in Energies: Data Analytics in Energy Systems Ⅱ
Special Issue in Resources: Advances in Biomass Energy Resources to Produce Valuable Chemicals
Special Issue in Sustainability: Sustainable Energy Economics and Environmental Policy

Interests: smart grid; demand response; electric vehicle; power system; electricity market
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Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Developing and Implementing Smart Grids: Novel Technologies, Techniques and Models
Special Issue in Energies: Distribution System Operation and Control
Special Issue in Smart Cities: Intelligent Transportation Systems: Technologies, Models and Applications
Special Issue in Sustainability: Developing Multi-Energy Systems: Technologies, Methods and Models
Special Issue in Energies: Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence for Power and Energy Networks
Special Issue in Energies: Demand Response Management in Electricity Markets

Interests: renewable energy; especially wind energy and wave energy; active disassembly; simulation; optimization; engineering education
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Special Issue in Energies: Wave Energy Potential, Behavior and Extraction
Special Issue in Energies: Wave Energy Potential, Behavior and Extraction 2020

Interests: energy efficiency; energy transition; energy economics; energy policy; sustainability
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Special Issue in Sustainability: Challenges and Opportunities for a Sustainable Tourism Sector

Interests: energy efficiency in buildings; energy saving in buildings; thermal energy storage; phase change materials; green roof; mathematical modeling of heat transfer; building simulation; renewable energy; photovoltaic systems; wind systems; electric vehicles; ground source heat pump system; artificial neural networks
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Special Issue in Sustainability: Smart Renewable Hybrid Energy Systems and Near Zero Energy Districts for Sustainable Urban Development
Special Issue in Sustainability: New Evidences of Indoor Thermal Comfort in Residential and Tertiary Buildings: Design and Evaluation Methods
Special Issue in Sustainability: Building and System Performance Simulation (BSPS) Tools: Prediction of the Ensemble Building-System Energy Efficiency, Reliability and Sustainability
Special Issue in Energies: Clean Energy Communities: Integration of Enhanced Buildings, Heat Pumps, Renewable and Storage Systems, and Electric Vehicle Charging Stations
Special Issue in Energies: Improving the Building and Urban Sustainability Exploiting the High Energy Efficiency of Phase Change Materials (PCM) and High Water-Energy Efficiency of Green Roofs and Walls

Interests: electrical power engineering; power systems simulation; photovoltaics; renewable energy technologies
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Special Issue in Energies: Operation and Control of Power Distribution Systems
Special Issue in Sustainability: Power Distribution System and Sustainability
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Electrical Safety Engineering of Complex Systems
Special Issue in Electronics: Innovative Solutions for the Electrical Industry

Interests: environment, renewable energy; economic development; environmental impact analysis; climate change; atmospheric pollution; water pollution regulations; environmental management standards; technology transfer; sustainability; higher education policy
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Special Issue in Sustainability: Technologies and Strategies of the Development of the Low Carbon Economy
Special Issue in Sustainability: Polymer Waste Management
Special Issue in Energies: Addressing Challenges of Low-Carbon Energy Transition
Special Issue in Journal of Risk and Financial Management: Technological Advancements and Managerial Risks on the Road to Economic Growth
Special Issue in Laws: Technology and Economics Law in Energy Markets and Environmental Problems

Interests: structural engineering; wind engineering; wind energy; economic feasibility
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Special Issue in Sustainability: Sustainability in Civil and Environmental Engineering

Interests: energy efficiency in buildings; zero energy building design; passive heating and cooling systems; innovative materials for buildings; building energy simulation and monitoring
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Interests: solid oxide fuel cells; clean energy; additive manufacturing; sustainability
Interests: energy and environment; renewable energy; biomass conversion; hydrothermal carbon; pyrolysis; hydrothermal treatment; biomass energy; biofuel production
Interests: integration of renewable energy in energy systems; energy system modeling; power market design; energy/food/water/climate change nexus; sustainable development
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Special Issue in Sustainability: Power System Flexibility in High Renewable Energy Systems

Interests: low carbon futures; energy and economic modelling; climate policy; resource efficiency
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Special Issue in Energies: Low Carbon Economy
Interests: biomass energy conversion; clean coal technology; gasification; torrefaction; combustion; fluidized bed conversion; boiler design; carbon capture; circulating fluidized bed

Interests: energy efficiency; sustainability; urban physics; nanotechnologies; acoustics; lighting
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Interests: hydro-deoxygenation; hydrogenolysis; hydrogenation; biomass; esterification and transesterification; pyrolysis; gasification; hydrothermal treatment; Fischer-Tropsch synthesis; hydroprocessing
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Interests: applied thermodynamics; heat transfer; renewable energy; solar energy; geothermal energy; energy efficiency; energy systems optimization
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Special Issue in Sustainability: Solar Thermal Energy Systems and Sustainability
Special Issue in Sustainability: Optimized Energy and Comfort Management in Shared Smart Buildings
Special Issue in Sustainability: Feature Papers in Energy Sustainability

2. School of Engineering, Faculty of Science & Engineering, University of Plymouth, Room 306, Marine Building, Drake Circus, Plymouth PL4 8AA, Devon, UK
Interests: wave energy; tidal stream energy; coastal structures; estuarine hydrodynamics; coastal morphology; artificial intelligence applied to coastal engineering
Interests: feasibility analysis of energy sector applications; certification; auditing; monitoring and assessment of res-based power plants; renewable energy sources; technological; financial and social implications; and implementation; social attitude towards renewable energy applications; technological progress in wind; hydro and solar energy market; stand alone wind energy and photovoltaic systems; wind-hydro energy production systems; evaluation of energy storage systems; res based desalination; waste management and recycling techniques; environmental technology-atmospheric pollution; aero-thermodynamic analysis of high speed turbomachines
Interests: energy efficient buildings / districts; energy management in buildings; heat storage
Interests: renewable energy applications and technology development; green building nanomaterial development; fluid mechanics and heat/mass transfer related to building studies
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Interests: just transition; sustainability; policy; law and politics
Interests: biofuels; nuclear power; renewable energy policy; waste management
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Special Issue in Sustainability: Woody Biomass Power Generation and Sustainable Energy Development
Interests: solar thermal technologies - refrigeration; water heating; water pumps; concentrating systems; photovoltaic thermal systems; dye-sensitized solar cell; integrated renewable energy systems (solar, wind & biomass)
Interests: wave energy converters; wave energy assessment; coastal engineering; maritime structures; coastal hydrodynamic; coastal morphodynamic
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Interests: energy in buildings; energy saving; renewable and alternative energies; life cycle assessment
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Special Issue in Sustainability: 15th CIRIAF National Congress – Environmental Footprint and Sustainable Development
Special Issue in Sustainability: 16th CIRIAF National Congress – Sustainable Development, Environment and Human Health Protection
Special Issue in Energies: 16th CIRIAF National Congress – Sustainable Development, Environment and Human Health Protection
Interests: sustainable engineering; building simulation; building design; building engineering; building envelope; carbon dioxide (CO2)
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Special Issue in Sustainability: Impact of Various Energy Efficiency Measures on the Thermal and Energy Performance of Buildings
Special Issue in Sustainability: Nearly Zero Energy Buildings and their Viability under current and Future Climate Conditions
Special Issue in Sustainability: Building Carbon Emissions and Their Impact on the Climate Change
Interests: renewable energies; energy efficiency; energy planning; environmental impact; sustainable engineering; energy efficiency in building; urban planning
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