Renewable Energies towards Zero Emission Plans

Dear Colleagues,

Economic development, population growth and intensifying urbanisation have consistently pushed up demands for goods and services. The supply chain of commodities, goods and services requires organised and continuous provision of energy in the industry. Different sectors have distinct role to play in bringing energy to businesses and consumers. Oil and gas drilling and production, pipeline and refining, mining, petrochemicals and energy distribution are amongst the common sectors but aside from generation and powering homes, transportation, and factories, energy makes a critical share in the finalised cost of many of the products we use on a daily basis. On the other hand, energy price and supply has been severely fluctuated throughout the history. Furthermore, the environmental effects of energy generation from fossils have been great challenge not only in research and technology, but also seriously addressed by governments and international organisations. Zero-emission plans and targets set and issued by governments are no more accounted as ambitious, but a substantial and must-to-do pathways for a better future.

Therefore, to avoid or mitigate potential future problems concerning the reliability of energy demand and supply and related emission crisis, an in-depth thinking on a redesign of new energy conversion methods, cleaner power generation and distribution technologies and more sustainable industrial operations is highly required. The economic, societal and environmental aspects of energy makes it a trilemma and multi-disciplinary subject to study and research. The academia will play a critical role as energy technology and innovation is changing so rapidly in a way that state-of-the-art concepts have been widely introduced and obsoleted after a while. This special issue published by MDPI will publish research findings to cover the above-mentioned concerns.

The special issue welcomes original researches contributing the challenge of energy/emission mitigation technologies. The papers published in this special issue are mainly focused on the applied energy mitigation systems and provide state-of-the-art approaches for zero-emission plans. One of the main pillars of sustainability is adoption of sustainable technologies which are potentially viable to be adopted in the real-world industrial operations. To achieve a cleaner world and sustainable production, there is a critical requirement for validated methodologies addressing the true demands of industry.

In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Primary research articles should report original investigations that provide new insights into energy transition technologies, sustainability scenarios manipulated by engineering disciplines and renewable energy technologies to tackle zero-emission plans. Review articles are welcome but they must be critical in approach and provide particularly novel and far reaching insights. Papers must contribute substantially to the advancement of knowledge. Research areas may include (but not limited to) the following:

• Energy transition methodologies,
• Energy conversion techniques to address zero-emission scenarios,
• Sustainable production methods,
• Renewable technologies to be adopted in real-world industrial operations,
• Novel methodologies in energy and carbon accounting and benchmarking in industry,
• Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of renewable systems,
• Future energy sources and their economic and environmental impacts.

I/We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Prof. Dr. Ali M. Nikbakht
Dr. Ofelia A. Jianu
Guest Editors

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• energy transition
• sustainability
• zero emission technologies