APPLIED ENERGY
Applied Energy provides a forum for information on innovation, research, development and demonstration in the areas of energy conversion
and conservation, the optimal use of energy resources, analysis and optimization of energy processes, mitigation of environmental
pollutants, and sustainable energy systems. The journal publishes original papers, review articles, technical notes, and letters to editor.
Authors are encouraged to submit manuscripts which bridge the gaps between research, development and implementation. The breadth of
coverage ranges from innovative technologies and systems of both fossil and renewable energy to the economic industrial and domestic
use of energy with no or minor impact on the environment. Applied Energy is also concerned with the attendant problems of modeling and
forecasting, conservation strategies, and the environmental, social and economic impacts of energy policies and usage, including climate
change mitigation and other environmental pollution reduction.
Editor
PROFESSOR J. YAN
Royal Institute of Technology (KTH),
Department of Chemical Engineering, Energy Processes,
TR50, SE-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden
Associate Editor
S. K. Chou
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Subject Editors
U. Desideri
University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
A. K. Gupta
University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA
H. Jin
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
H. Yang
Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
K. Yoshikawa
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan
Editorial Board
M. Beer
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Y. Cheong (Dennis) Leung
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
E. Dahlquist
Ma
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lardalen University, Va
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stera
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s, Sweden
J. De Ruyck
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussel, Belgium
I. Dincer
University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT), Ontario, Canada
H. Frank
Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences and ABB, Sweden
S. V. Garimella
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
G. Hammond
University of Bath, Bath, UK
J. Hetland
SINTEF, Trondheim, Norway
M. J. Kaiser
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
S. A. Kalogirou
Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus
L. Kazmerski
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado, USA
X. Li
University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
H. Lund
Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
R. Madlener
RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
A. Massardo
University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy
A. Meier
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, San Francisco, USA
M. J. Moran
The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
M. Obersteiner
IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria
J. R. Moreira
National Centre of Biomass, Sao Paulo, Brazil
J. Schoonman
Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
R. Span
Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Bochum, Germany
B. Stigson
World Business Council for Sustainable Development, Switzerland
T. Tezuka
Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
S. Tu
East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
Y. Uchiyama
University of Tsukuba, Japan
Y. Yamagata
National Institute for Environmental Studies, Ibaraki, Japan
Y. Wei
Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China
H. Yoshida
Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Emeritus Editor
D. Probert
Cranfield University, UK
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