能源学 | 高引SCI期刊专刊信息6条

全文截稿: 2021-03-21

影响因子: 8.848

中科院JCR分区:

• 大类 : 工程技术 - 1区

• 小类 : 能源与燃料 - 2区

• 小类 : 工程：化工 - 1区

网址：
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/applied-energy

Over the last few years, there has been extensive growth in small-scale distributed energy resources (DER), which encompass behind-the-meter generation, energy storage, inverters, electric vehicles, and controllable loads at the household level. These small-scale resources can be utilized not only to manage the energy demand more efficiently but also to enable a significant mix of clean energy into the grid. However, to do so, it is important for the owners of these assets to actively participate in the energy market. As a consequence, peer-to-peer trading has emerged as a next-generation energy management technique for the smart grid that can enable the owners of small scale DERs - also known as prosumers - to actively participate in the energy market. With the prosumers in control of setting the terms of transactions and the delivery of goods and services, it is expected that the gain that the prosumers can reap from participating in peer-to-peer trading would be substantial. At the same time, the grid — consisting of generators, retailers, and distribution network system providers — can also obtain a significant benefit in terms of reducing peak demand, lowering investment and operational costs, minimizing reserve requirements, and improving power system reliability.

As a result, a large number of studies have been reported on peer-to-peer trading in electricity networks over the past few years. These studies have focussed on a number of important decision-making problems of participants in the virtual layer as well as investigated the impacts of peer-to-peer energy trading on the physical distribution network. A large number of pilot projects have also been established in the USA, Europe, and Australia. However, interestingly, there has been no indication of the implementation of peer-to-peer trading in the actual energy market in any country. The purpose of this special section is to address this gap by publishing findings from innovative research that have the potential to establish peer-to-peer sharing in today’s electricity market as an energy trading mechanism. The published articles will demonstrate a set of new research outcomes that can successfully decide on energy trading parameters that are beneficial not only for the prosumers but also for other stakeholders within the market. At the same time, transacted energy by prosumers over the physical layer will not detrimentally impact the physical power system network in terms of violating any constraints and increasing the loss significantly.

The targeted audience includes both academic researchers and industrial practitioners. The purpose of the special issue is to provide a platform to enhance interdisciplinary research and share the most recent ideas in the above-related fields. In particular, the published article would cover, but not limited to, the following topics of energy system via designing new peer-to-peer energy trading mechanisms:

? Electricity market regulation
? Sharing of energy storage
? Providing demand flexibility to the grid
? Trading of renewable energy in microgrid
? Designing prosumer engagement plans
? Modelling flexibility of distributed energy resources
? Providing voltage and frequency regulation service
? Pricing model
? Minimizing of network loss

全文截稿: 2021-04-01

影响因子: 8.848

中科院JCR分区:

• 大类 : 工程技术 - 1区

• 小类 : 能源与燃料 - 2区

• 小类 : 工程：化工 - 1区

网址：
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/applied-energy

The IPCC report “Global Warming of 1.5°C” (Oct. 2018) issued a dire warning that unless CO2 emissions are halved by 2030, devastating changes, which will be sooner than expected and irreversible, will occur in ocean and on land. Time is running out for transitioning to new energy systems globally. Logic and numbers show that the world must take a two-step approach: (A) deploy existing, industrially proven technologies, namely solar, wind and nuclear baseload at an unprecedented scale and pace, from now to 2050 -- when a house catches fire, firemen must run to the closest hydrants and stop disputing which water stream would be purer; and (B) develop new concepts and technologies that may replace the dirtier parts of (A) post-2050, at terawatt scale.

The Applied Energy Symposium: MIT “A+B” (MITAB) is dedicated to the accelerated deployment of (A), and new concepts and emerging technologies for (B). For (A), reducing capital and operating costs, managing social dynamics, and minimizing environmental impact while maintaining extreme productivity are key; automation, artificial intelligence, social mobilization, governmental actions and international coordination will provide essential boosts. For (B), we seek new concepts and emerging technologies (e.g. fusion power engineering, superconducting transmission, etc.) that stand a chance to scale to terawatts after 30 years, i.e. “baby technologies” can grow to adulthood in 20-30 years.

MITAB2021 is co-organized by MIT, Harvard, and Applied Energy Innovation Institute, on Aug.11-13, 2021, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA. Outstanding papers will be recommended by the session chair and Scientific Committee to be further considered for publication in a special issue of Applied Energy (Journal Impact Factor 8.8).

Examples of topics include, but are not limited to, the following:


Renewable energy: solar energy (A or B), wind energy (A), bioenergy (A or B), and other renewables.

Clean energy conversion technologies: fuel cells and electrolyzers (A or B), conversion of petroleum/gas/coal to high-valued materials and chemicals (A), hybrid energy systems, such as the combination of intermittent renewable energies and nuclear heat storage for load following, chemicals/materials/fuel production (A or B), multi-energy carrier energy systems (A or B).

Energy storage: grid-scale batteries (A), battery management systems (A), fuel cell/ electrolyzer management systems (A), pumped hydro/compressed air (A), thermal energy storage (A or B), distributed energy storage (A).

Nuclear energy: innovative concrete solutions and civil constructions (A), application of robotics and AI (A), shipyard constructed floating reactors (A), small modular reactors and micro-reactors (A or B), fast neutron reactors (B), fusion reactors (B).

Mitigation technologies: Carbon capture and sequestration (B), nuclear waste (A), solar waste (A), battery waste (A), reduced-CO2 production of cement, bulk metals and chemicals (A or B).

Intelligent energy systems: smart grids (A), ultra-efficient/superconducting power transmission (B), wireless power transmission (B); electrification of transportation and industrial production, such as electric cars/trucks (A or B), electrified air flight (A or B), microwave/plasma/electrochemical processing (A or B).

Sustainability of energy systems: Environmental monitoring (A), social mobilization (A), consensus building (A), governmental policy-making (A), international coordination (A).

Sustainable geoenergy: geothermal (A or B), gas hydrate (A), unconventional natural gas (A), LNG, reducing methane and CO2 emission (A) of oil and gas sector, sustainable geoenergy development and management (A).

Energy, food, water and air: water and air treatment (A), reduced-CO2 production of food (A), Water-Food-Energy Nexus (A).

全文截稿: 2021-04-15

影响因子: 4.867

中科院JCR分区:

• 大类 : 工程技术 - 2区

• 小类 : 结构与建筑技术 - 1区

• 小类 : 能源与燃料 - 3区

• 小类 : 工程：土木 - 1区

网址：
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/energy-and-buildings

Due to advances in today’s sensing and mobile technologies, more and more data can be easily and effectively collected by various and advanced means. It is now feasible to collect and process big data about environmental satisfaction levels of a building’s occupants in real time and non-invasive manners. A human body naturally reacts to ambient environmental conditions to minimize any environmental stress, based on its autonomic nervous system and expressed by different poses. Therefore, the goal of this special issue is to enhance the interdisciplinary knowledge (i.e., AI, IoT, big data, deep learning, computer vision) to advance building indoor environmental sensing and control technologies as a function of human bio-signals (i.e., physiological signals) and poses. To identify intellectual challenges and research gaps, state of the art research results in the following research areas are welcomed to achieve building energy efficiency by smart sensing and control.

全文截稿: 2021-04-30

影响因子: 8.848

中科院JCR分区:

• 大类 : 工程技术 - 1区

• 小类 : 能源与燃料 - 2区

• 小类 : 工程：化工 - 1区

网址：
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/applied-energy

For decades, energy and management scholars were mostly concerned to find explanations for their models at either the macro or the meso levels of analysis. However, this approach proved bounded, not to say myopic, when it comes to draw a more far convincing, reality-grounded explanation of economic dynamics. Recent studies on circular economy which look at new innovative, entrepreneurial ideas in the energy sector have showed some focus on entrepreneurship and rural electrification; clean energy and technology entrepreneurship; entrepreneurship and renewable energy; spotting opportunities in the oil sector; new energy business model to heat entrepreneurship. The energy sector has been triggered by tiny changes which have brought up the need to modularize its infrastructure. This new architecture “draws out the capabilities found within the firm, distilling them into a module that can then be rented out to other parties.” (Richard and Devinney, 2005; p.98). There is also a new trend based on the reuse of knowledge to create green, sustainable entrepreneurial ideas. It goes beyond the classic meaning of knowledge as an intangible asset but employs its practicality in encouraging new practices and, consequently, stimulating critical thinking of both entrepreneurs and employees.

These studies unveil how strategic goals are selected, how resources or knowledge are created and managed, and how processes unfold. This intricate embroidery of connections among the ability of spotting new opportunities and shift of the energy sector towards a more sustainable market.

Therefore, this special issue will have a very significant impact on future studies in the research stream of Applied Energy Journal but also on strategic management and related fields of studies. In fact, it will help to provide new insights, recalling theories ranging from the general outlook on the energy market to narrowing down on circular economy and entrepreneurship. The interrelation between energy market, entrepreneurship and circular economy can strongly motivate a specific call for robust studies on the theme.

Therefore, scholars and practitioners are encouraged to offer new research on:

How does energy matter? Spotting opportunities or creating opportunities

Does circular economy induce a new balance between energy sufficiency and energy mobility?

When does entrepreneurship meet a circular economy in the energy sector?

What are the key entrepreneurial exogenous and endogenous key factors which can enhance circular economy?

How circular economy activities would differ between SMEs and MNCs in the energy context?

What are the relevant skills and capabilities which can be rented out to third parties in spurring green-innovations (or co-green innovations)?

How would this differ between labour and knowledge intensive enterprises in the circular economy context?

How a circular business model will be able to get social acceptance and profitability in the energy market?

Is it possible to measure the progress of a circular economy?

全文截稿: 2021-04-30

影响因子: 7.539

中科院JCR分区:

• 大类 : 工程技术 - 1区

• 小类 : 农业工程 - 1区

• 小类 : 生物工程与应用微生物 - 2区

• 小类 : 能源与燃料 - 2区

网址：
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/bioresource-technology

As reported by the World Bank in 2018, 880 million tons per year of food and green waste from municipalities was generated globally. In addition, the world generated 75 million tons of sewage sludge in 2013 and approximate 103 million tons by 2025. The greenhouse gas emission from treatment of those biological wastes, accounting for about five percent of global emissions, has been increasingly concerned worldwide. The utilization of biological waste is carbon neutral when compare to normal disposal in landfill, which helps toward GHG emission reduction and mitigating climate change. Resource requirement due to enormous increase of the world population is another challenge, which pressurizes to look for other options wherein the valorization of biological waste streams into useful resources is necessary. However, biological waste as a sustainable resource is still less utilized due to lack of efficient conversion technologies. In recent years, there has been significant advances in biological waste treatment. Based on the concepts of biorefinery and circular economy, some of these advances includes advanced pre-treatment technologies, production of high-value biochemicals through fermentation, functionalized biochar via pyrolysis, biofertilizer from composting or vermicomposting. This special issue entitled “Recent Advances in Solid Waste Treatment” has been conceptualized to highlight some of the advances in this field.