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Sustainability in Fuel Consumption and Pollutant Emission Management

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Sustainability".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (13 September 2024) | Viewed by 3060

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Dr. Denghui Wang

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School of Energy and Power Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China
Interests: energy; chemical engineering; environmental science
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Dear Colleagues,

In the face of increasing environmental pressures, especially in energy, great efforts must be made to achieve long-term development. It is universally acknowledged that long-term development can only be achieved through sound environmental management, that is, sustainable development, especially important in fuel consumption and pollution emission, which is the focus of this Special Issue.

Rapid global economic growth is leading to social prosperity and the increasing demand for energy that rapidly depletes the global reserve of petroleum fuels, which makes how to reduce or adjusting fuel consumption a matter of urgency.

Pollution emissions are one of the world’s largest health and environmental problems. The amounts and types of pollution emissions change every year. These changes are caused by changes in the nation's economy, industrial activity, technology improvements, traffic, and many other factors.

Sustainable development requires minimizing the consumption of fuel and the generation of pollutants waste and toxic pollution emissions throughout the entire production and consumption process. The pollutants are carbon monoxide (CO), lead (Pb), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), ozone (O3), particulate matter (PM), sulfur dioxide (SO2), and so on. There is also a large amount of compounds that have been determined to be hazardous, called air toxics.

Furthermore, the benefits of sustainable development are also felt across a wide cross-section of human health and wellbeing, including reductions in pollution- and environment-related disease, improved health outcomes and decreased stress.

This Special Issue welcomes high-quality process-oriented and hypothesis-based submissions that report results from original and novel research and contribute new knowledge to help address problems related to fuel consumption and pollution emissions under the Sustainable Development Goals on a regional or global scale. Discussions on the effects of fuel consumption and pollution emissions under the Sustainable Development Goals are welcome.

Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following;
  • Low-carbon fuel consumption;
  • Clean utilization of fossil fuels;
  • Hydrogen fuels;
  • Air pollution;
  • Emission reduction;
  • Harmless treatment of combustion wastes;
  • Sustainable development of fuel consumption.

I look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Denghui Wang
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • fuel consumption
  • pollution emissions
  • emission control
  • energy access
  • environmental remediation
  • catalytic material
  • sustainable development

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Analysis of Spatiotemporal Disparities and Spatial Spillover Effect of a Low-Carbon Economy in Chinese Provinces Under Green Technology Innovation
by Xiu Liu, Zhuo He, Zixin Deng and Sandeep Poddar
Sustainability 2024, 16(21), 9434; https://doi.org/10.3390/su16219434 - 30 Oct 2024
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This research, set against the backdrop of rapid global advancements in green technology innovation and aligned with China’s sustainable development strategy, conducts an in-depth analysis of the spatiotemporal disparities and spatial spillover effect of a low-carbon economy in Chinese provinces. Following empirical analysis [...] Read more.
This research, set against the backdrop of rapid global advancements in green technology innovation and aligned with China’s sustainable development strategy, conducts an in-depth analysis of the spatiotemporal disparities and spatial spillover effect of a low-carbon economy in Chinese provinces. Following empirical analysis and data testing, the study draws the following conclusions: (1) China’s low-carbon economy is subject to significant regional differences. Over time, the development level has improved annually, with the number of provinces above the middle level of low-carbon economy rising from 11 in 2010 to 22 in 2022. However, regional differences persist. The eastern region has shown the most significant progress, while the central area encountered its initial challenges first, and the development of the western area has unfolded in a more segmented manner. (2) In this paper, the low-carbon economy in China shows notable characteristics of spatiotemporal agglomeration, with the number of high–high agglomeration provinces rising from four in 2010 to seven in 2022, an increase of 78% year-on-year. The number of provinces and provinces in the low–low agglomeration mode increased from two in 2010 to six in 2022, a year-on-year increase of 200%. (3) China’s low-carbon economy demonstrates notable spatiotemporal evolution. The development process tends to remain stable during transitions, with a high likelihood of sustaining the current state while gradually advancing, avoiding abrupt changes across levels. (4) Innovations in green technology exert a positive influence on the advancement of the low-carbon economy, with a clear spatial spillover effect. In light of these findings, the research offers targeted recommendations for society, enterprises, and government stakeholders. Full article
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The Structural Design of and Experimental Research on a Coke Oven Gas Burner
by Mingrui Geng, Suyi Jin and Denghui Wang
Sustainability 2024, 16(10), 4185; https://doi.org/10.3390/su16104185 - 16 May 2024
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A novel low-NOx burner was proposed in this study to achieve the stable and clean combustion of low- and medium-calorific-value gas and promote energy sustainability, and the influence of the gas pipe structure on the burner’s characteristics was studied with coke oven [...] Read more.
A novel low-NOx burner was proposed in this study to achieve the stable and clean combustion of low- and medium-calorific-value gas and promote energy sustainability, and the influence of the gas pipe structure on the burner’s characteristics was studied with coke oven gas as a fuel. A 40 kW burner test bench was established to conduct cold-state experiments to investigate the influences of the gas pipe structure on the aerodynamic characteristics of the burner. We performed numerical simulations on both a 40 kW burner and a 14 MW prototype burner to investigate the thermal performance of the burners and their impact on low NOx emissions. The experimental results showed that increasing the deflection angle of the gas pipe nozzle direction relative to the circumferential tangent direction, the high-velocity zone and the high-concentration zone of the flow field move towards the central axis. Increasing the bending angle of gas pipe nozzle direction relative to the axis direction caused the high-velocity zone and the high-concentration zone to move upstream direction of the jet. The simulation reveals that the NO concentration at the exit cross-section of the combustion chamber of the 14 MW prototype burner is 17.00 mg/m3 (with 3.5% oxygen content). A recommended design structure of the burner was proposed, with a deflection angle of 0°and a bending angle of 0° for the No. 3 gas pipe, and a deflection angle of 15° and a bending angle of 30° for the No. 4 gas pipe. Full article
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