Trends in Clean Energy Research

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the latest novel and fundamental advances in clean energy resources and systems, energy economics, and energy policy. Designed to help steer the course toward a cleaner, more sustainable energy landscape, it presents case studies on clean energy technology, explores sustainable methods for increasing energy efficiency, and examines current concepts and solutions to global energy storage and energy-saving issues. Topics covered include:

• Clean coal and fossil fuels;
• Green power production and cogeneration;
• CO2 capture, storage, and utilization;
• Biomass, wind, and nuclear energy engineering;
• Hydrogen and fuel cell technology.

Trends in Clean Energy Research is an essential guide to current research for scientists, practitioners, engineers, students, and researchers.

Dr. Lin Chenis a full professor and director of the Heat and Mass Transfer Research Center at the Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and jointly at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. Before that, he was a JST-CREST and JSPS research fellow and an assistant professor at Tohoku University, Japan. His research interests include energy resources, supercritical fluids, soil remediation, and advanced measurement technologies, and recently, he has focused on CO2-based energy systems and utilization processes. Dr. Chen received his B.E. and Ph.D. in Mechanics (Energy and Resources Engineering) from Peking University. He has authored over 300 well-cited international journal papers and conference presentations, 21 patents, nine book chapters, and four books, including the most famous one Handbook of Research on Advancements in Supercritical Fluids Applications for Sustainable Energy Systems (2021). He was winner of the 2018 AUTSE Young Scientist Award and the Paper Award of the Visualization Society of Japan (2022) for his contribution in supercritical fluid fundamental studies and measurement techniques of fluid dynamics under extreme conditions. He is currently a board member of the Experts Commission of the China Energy Society, an associate editor of the ASME Journal of Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Science, and an editorial board member of the Journal of Supercritical Fluids.