New Trends in Sustainable Materials for Energy Conversion, CO₂ Capture and Pollution Control

Submission Deadline: 31 August 2021 (closed)

Guest Editors

Yi Wang, Associate Professor, Doctor, State Key Laboratory of Coal Combustion, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China.
Dr. Yi Wang received his doctoral degree in Curtin University, Australia, in 2012. He also experienced a postdoctoral research fellowship at Fuels and Energy Technology Institute, Curtin University, Perth, Australia, during 2012-2014. His research interests have been focused on thermo-chemical conversion technologies of coal/biomass and municipal solid waste to renewable bio-fuels and value-added carbonaceous materials. He is hosting 5 national research projects and industrial projects. He has co-authored more than 140 papers in journals with the H index of 30. He received the first prize of Hubei Province Science and Technology Progress Award in 2018, the second prize of China Science and Technology Progress Award in 2019 and ‘Chutian Scholars’ Program.

Zhen Huang, Associate Professor, Doctor, Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.
Dr. Zhen Huang obtained his doctoral degree in Tongji University, China. His research fields include chemical looping conversion of solid fuels (e.g. biomass, coal), synthesis of novel oxygen carrier and solid waste utilization. Up to now, he has published more than 80 papers in which 60 papers were indexed by SCI. He has obtained eight invention patents. Additionally, he is the membership of “Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences”.

Hui Wang, Associate Professor, Doctor, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China. Dr. Hui Wang received his doctoral degree from Southeast University, China, in 2016. His research interests include mercury control, CO2 capture and utilization, modelling and numerical simulation of combustion, etc. He has published 14 SCI papers and applied 12 patents. He was regarded as a "the Peak of the Six Talents" high-level talents in Jiangsu Province by the provincial government of Jiangsu.

Xiaojia Wang, Lecturer, Doctor, Key Laboratory of Energy Thermal Conversion and Control of Ministry of Education, School of Energy & Environment, Southeast University, China. Dr. Xiaojia Wang received his doctoral degree from Southeast University, China, in 2016. His research interests have been focused on chemical looping combustion for CO2 capture, coal combustion with pollutants removal, gasification of biomass and organic solid wastes, multiphase flow simulation, and fluidized bed technology. He has co-authored more than 40 papers in journals and applied more than 10 patents. He received the honors of Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of Jiangsu Province and “Zhishan Young Scholar” of Southeast University.

Summary

The major energy utilization methods of fossil and biomass fuels include combustion, gasification, liquefaction, and so on. However, anthropogenic impacts on the environment has aroused much attention in recent years. CO₂ emitted during the utilization process is one of the main contributors to the global warming. Besides, some pollutions (e.g. heavy metal elements) contained in the flue gas also bring big risks for the environment. Therefore, renewable and sustainable materials and energy utilization technologies should be further developed to address the environmental problems under the premise of favorable conversion efficiency.

This Special Issue "New Trends in Sustainable Materials for Energy Conversion, CO₂ Capture and Pollution Control" mainly covers research in fundamental and applied sciences of renewable and sustainable materials during the energy utilization and pollution control processes. The scope of interests includes but is not limited to the following topics:

1. Thermochemical conversion of fossil and biomass fuels

2. Pollution control

3. CO₂ capture

4. Process simulation

5. Renewable and sustainable materials

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