Sustainable Thermal Energy Technologies and Processes

Dear Colleagues,

The development of new, sustainable thermal technologies and processes is of paramount importance for smart cities and the environment. Thermal energy is a heat source and a highly versatile form of energy. It can be employed directly as heat for homes through sustainable energy production, use, and storage, or converted to cold energy through heat-driven technologies. It can also be converted to electricity through turbine technologies.

Another key aspect of thermal technologies and processes involves harnessing renewable energy sources to provide heating and cooling to industries and domestic heating and cooling, hot water, cooking, washing and sterilization applications. Renewable thermal technologies can draw from a range of local renewable sources, including solar, geothermal, and industrial waste heat, etc. The quality and temperature of the harnessed heat are key parameters that define the potental of thermal processes and levels of sustainability.

This collection will focus on recent advances in thermal processes, cooling, heating, and thermal conversion. Potential research topics include (but are not limited to) solar thermal energy and processes, distrct cooling and heating network, geothermal processes, heat pump, heat recovery, thermal storage systems, combined heat and power, trigeneration, quad-generation, and environmental well-being from novel thermal processes.

Dr. Kian Jon Chua
Dr. Xin Cui
Dr. Weidong Chen
Dr. Yunlin Shao
Dr. Yangda Wan
Topic Editors