Clean Energy Management: Emerging Technologies and Mathematical Modeling

Dear Colleagues,

Clean energy, often referred to as renewable energy, is generated from clean natural resources and production processes that do not damage the environment. The rapid depletion of conventional energy sources, such as oil, gas, and coal, and their adverse impact on environmental conditions are forcing practitioners worldwide to look for renewable energy sources such as wave, hydropower, solar, wind, and geothermal.

As renewable energy sources continue to grow, a crucial goal will be to maximize productivity and clean energy utilization. Therefore, new technologies and policies are needed to manage exploration, production, distribution, and renewable energy consumption. These emerging initiatives will also help to improve environmental conditions.

Energy systems, including clean energy, are complicated and multi-dimensional systems that show nonlinear characteristics. Hence, modeling and controlling energy systems brings up various challenges for researchers. In this matter, a useful and powerful tool is mathematical modeling. This technique can study and analyze different aspects of clean energy systems such as system control, optimization, system design, supply chain design, cost minimization, distribution management, policy design, and socio-economic planning.  

This Special Issue aims to collect new technologies and mathematical models pertaining to the technologies, policies, and solutions that manage clean energy. The following subjects will be considered in this Special Issue:

• Generation and integration of clean energy sources such as hydrogen, wind, solar, and bioresource;
• Novel clean energy technologies such as plasma process, clean fuel production, and liquid fuel;
• Applying fluid dynamic modeling of wind turbines, blades, hydrogen, and ammonia turbines for clean energy;
• New technologies and solutions for clean energy storage systems;
• Clean energy Life Cycle Assessment (LCA);
• Sustainable supply chain planning;
• Social and economic impacts of clean energy technologies.

In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome.

I/We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Mohammad Reza Safaei
Dr. Reza Maihami
Dr. Mohammad Hossein Doranehgard
Dr. Mahyar Silakhori
Guest Editors

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