Energy Technology 2023

Clean and sustainable energy is of paramount importance for industrial activities, economic development, environment, and public welfare. Aiming to reach NetZero, researchers in both academia and industry as well as policymakers are now putting tremendous efforts into the generation, storage, and applications of clean energy. This collection focuses on new and efficient energy technologies including innovative ore beneficiation, smelting technologies, recycling and waste heat recovery, and emerging novel energy solutions. The volume also covers a broad range of mature and new technological aspects of sustainable energy ecosystems, processes that improve energy efficiency, reduce thermal intensity and pollutants, and reduce carbon dioxide and other greenhouse emissions. Topics include, but are not limited to: Energy efficient technologies for minerals, metals & materials processing

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