Donna Post Guillen – författare

This collection addresses the need for sustainable technologies with reduced energy consumption and pollutants and the development and application of alternative sustainable energy to maintain a green environment and energy supply. Contributions focus on energy-efficient technologies including innovative ore beneficiation, smelting technologies, and recycling and waste heat recovery, as well as emerging novel energy technologies. Papers also cover various technological aspects of sustainable energy ecosystems, processes that improve energy efficiency, reduce thermal emissions, and reduce carbon dioxide and other greenhouse emissions.

Energy Technologies and Carbon Dioxide Management

Solar Cell Silicon

Advanced Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage

• Clean energy technologies, such as biomass, solar, wind, geothermal, nuclear including SMRs, hydrogen, etc.

• Renewable energy resources to reduce the consumption of traditional fossil fuels

• Emerging technologies for renewable energy harvesting, conversion, and storage

• New concepts or devices for energy generation, conversion, and distribution

• Waste heat recovery and other industrial energy efficient technologies

• Energy education and energy regulation

• Scale-up, stability, and life-cycle analysis of energy technologies and improvement of existing energy-intensive processes

• Theory and simulation in energy harvesting, conversion, and storage

• Design, operation, and optimization of processes for energy generation (e.g., carbon capture) and conversion of energy carriers

• Energy efficiency improvement in process engineering (e.g., for biomass conversion and improved combustion) and electrical engineering (e.g., for power conversion and developing smart grids)

• Thermo-electric/electrolysis/photo-electrolysis/fundamentals of PV

• Emission control, CO2 capture, and conversion

• Carbon sequestration techniques

• CO2 and other greenhouse gas reduction metallurgy in ferrous (iron & steel making and forming), non-ferrous and reactive metals including critical rare-earth metals

• Sustainability and life cycle assessment of energy systems

• Thermodynamics and modelling for sustainable metallurgical processes

• ''Smart cool materials'' for urban heat island mitigation (such as cool roof infrared reflecting material, and low-temperature heat absorbers for use in air conditioner condensers - like ''endothermic materials'')

• Methodologies for reducing the cost of energy materials production

• Circular economy and developing resource efficiency model for cutting down the transport from remote places

• Materials extraction and processing steps for enhancing energy efficiencies in batteries, supercapacitors, and energy efficient cells

• Foundational industry (metals-alloys, chemicals, refractories, cement) and energy economy and role of mineral extraction

This collection is focused on industrial energy sustainability and CO2 management, including processes that improve energy efficiency and reduce or eliminate industrial GHG emissions. Topics address technology areas such as clean energy technologies, innovative beneficiation, smelting technologies, process intensification, as well as CO2 capture and conversion for industrial applications. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

·       Decarbonizing Materials Processing

·       Use of low carbon fuels, feedstock, and renewable energy resources for materials processing.

·       Emerging processes and techniques for industrial CO2 capture, conversion/upgrade

·       CO2 and other GHG reduction metallurgy in ferrous, non-ferrous and reactive metals processing, including rare-earth metals.

·       Energy Efficiency & Industrial Electrification

·       Electrification of industrial process heat and electrified production of energy carriers (e.g., hydrogen, ammonia)

·       Energy efficiency improvements for materials processing and smart manufacturing for optimized process control

·       System integration and thermal integration of process heat, waste heat recovery, and other technologies for industrial energy efficiency

·       Sustainability Analysis

·       Techno-economic life-cycle, resource efficiency and circular economy modeling of energy-intensive processes and associated material supply chains

·       The role of energy education and regulation in energy and materials sustainability

This collection is focused on industrial energy sustainability and CO2 management, including processes that improve energy efficiency and reduce or eliminate industrial GHG emissions. Topics address technology areas such as clean energy technologies, innovative beneficiation, smelting technologies, process intensification, as well as CO2 capture and conversion for industrial applications. Areas of interest include but are not limited to: