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MDPI AG - Energies 2012 : Special Issue: Combined Heat and Power – Strategy and Practice - Energies (ISSN 1996-1073) | |||||||||||
Link: http://www.mdpi.com/si/energies/chp/ | |||||||||||
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Dear colleagues,
The following Special Issue will be published in Energies (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/energies/, ISSN 1996-1073), and is now open to receive submissions of full research papers and comprehensive review articles for peer-review and possible publication: Special Issue: Combined Heat and Power - Strategy and Practice Website: http://www.mdpi.com/si/energies/chp/ Guest Editor: Prof. Dr. Joshua Swithenbank Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2012 This Issue addresses the topic of Combined Heat and Power, which is an important contributor to energy efficiency and hence to mitigating global warming. For most European countries there is a close energy match between the low grade heat discharged to atmosphere by their thermal electricity power industry and that required for heating their buildings. Thus whilst building insulation and design can help close the gap, the fact remains that most of these countries use CHP and district heating from power stations and incinerators fuelled by non-recyclable waste to achieve efficient use of energy and reduce their total carbon dioxide emissions. For example, Vienna is an ancient city that heats 300,000 flats in a system fed by 5 local power stations and 4 incinerators; whilst two thirds of all buildings in Denmark are connected to a district heating system and one pipe main extends 100 km westwards from Copenhagen to connect several power stations. Similarly, 92% of all buildings in Helsinki are connected to a district heating system and more than 92% of this heat is derived from CHP units. A current priority for low grade heat technology in many developing countries is to dramatically increase the installation of CHP into their towns and cities. However, work is often required to overcome the technical, social and economic barriers that have evolved from their historic energy situation. Case studies, reviews and research papers on these and related topics are invited. Topics of interest for this Issue include, but are not limited to: * Combined Heat and Power (CHP) * district heating and cooling * process efficiency * carbon footprint * heat distribution networks * mapping heat sources and sinks * energy from waste * overcoming barriers * case studies * strategic issues of thermal energy technology * socio-economic issues You may send your manuscript now or up until the deadline. Submitted papers should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere. We also encourage authors to send us their tentative title and short abstract by e-mail for approval to the Editorial Office at energies@mdpi.com. This Special Issue will be fully open access. Open access (unlimited and free access by readers) increases publicity and promotes more frequent citations as indicated by several studies. Open access is supported by the authors and their institutes. More information is available at http://www.mdpi.com/about/openaccess/. The Article Processing Charges (APC) are of 1000 CHF for well prepared manuscripts submitted before 1 July 2012. The APC for manuscripts submitted from 1 July 2012 onwards are 1200 CHF per accepted paper. For details see: http://www.mdpi.com/about/apc/. Please visit the Instructions for Authors before submitting a manuscript: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/energies/instructions/. Manuscripts should be submitted through the online manuscript submission and editorial system at http://www.mdpi.com/user/manuscripts/upload/. Energies, an open access journal publishing related scientific research, technological developments, engineering, and studies in policy and management, is published by MDPI online monthly. The journal Energies is abstracted and indexed by Chemical Abstracts (CAS), COMPENDEX, Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), the Science Citation Index Expanded, Google Scholar, INSPEC, Open-J-Gate and Scopus. The first impact factor of Energies released in 2011 is 1.130. MDPI publishes several peer-reviewed, open access journals listed at http://www.mdpi.com/. The Editorial Board members, including several Nobel Laureates (http://www.mdpi.com/about/nobelists/), are all leading active scholars. All MDPI journals maintain rapid, yet rigorous, peer- review, manuscript handling and editorial processes. MDPI journals have increased their impact factors, see "2010 Newly Released Impact Factors", http://www.mdpi.com/about/announcements/121/. In case of questions, please contact the Editorial Office at: energies@mdpi.com We are looking forward to hearing from you. Kind regards, MDPI AG On behalf of the Guest Editor Prof. Dr. Joshua Swithenbank Energy and Environment Engineering University of Sheffield Mappin Street Sheffield, S1 3JD UK Website: http://www.shef.ac.uk/cbe/research/eeerg/SUWIC E-Mail: j.swithenbank@sheffield.ac.uk -- MDPI AG Kandererstrasse 25 CH-4057 Basel, Switzerland Tel. +41 61 683 77 34 Fax: +41 61 302 89 18 E-Mail: energies@mdpi.com http://www.mdpi.com/ |
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