(ISSN 2690-1692)
Journal of Energy and Power Technology (JEPT) is an international peer-reviewed Open Access journal published quarterly online by LIDSEN Publishing Inc. This periodical is dedicated to providing a unique, peer-reviewed, multi-disciplinary platform for researchers, scientists and engineers in academia, research institutions, government agencies and industry. The journal is also of interest to technology developers, planners, policy makers and technical, economic and policy advisers to present their research results and findings.
Journal of Energy and Power Technology focuses on all aspects of energy and power. It publishes original research and review articles and also publishes Survey, Comments, Perspectives, Reviews, News & Views, Tutorial and Discussion Papers from experts in these fields to promote intuitive understanding of the state-of-the-art and technology trends.
Main research areas include (but are not limited to):
Renewable energies (e.g. geothermal, solar, wind, hydro, tidal, wave, biomass) and grid connection impact
Energy harvesting devices
Energy storage
Hybrid/combined/integrated energy systems for multi-generation
Hydrogen energy
Fuel cells
Nuclear energy
Energy economics and finance
Energy policy
Energy and environment
Energy conversion, conservation and management
Smart energy system
Power Generation - Conventional and Renewable
Power System Management
Power Transmission and Distribution
Smart Grid Technologies
Micro- and nano-energy systems and technologies
Power electronic
Biofuels and alternatives
High voltage and pulse power
Organic and inorganic photovoltaics
Batteries and supercapacitors
Archiving: full-text archived in CLOCKSS.
Publication Speed (median values for papers published in 2022): Submission to First Decision: 4 weeks; Submission to Acceptance: 12 weeks; Acceptance to Publication: 11 days (1-2 days of FREE language polishing included)
Editorial Board (58)
Editor-in-Chief
Zhao Yang Dong (M’99–SM’06-F'17) obtained Ph.D. degree from the University of Sydney, Australia in 1999. He is currently the SHARP professor and Director of the University of New South Wales Digital Grid Futures Institute, The University of New South Wales, Australia. He is also Director for ARC Research Hub for Integrated Energy Storage Solutions. He was previously Professor and Head of School of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of Sydney, and Ausgrid Chair and Director of the Ausgrid Centre for Intelligent Electricity Networks, the University of Newcastle, Australia. He also held industrial positions with Transend Networks (now TAS Networks), Australia. His research interests include smart grid, power system planning, power system security, renewable energy systems, electricity market, load modelling, and computational intelligence and its application in power engineering. He is serving/served as an editor of IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, IEEE Power Engineering Letters, and IET Renewable Power Generation.HE is Fellow of IEEE.1. Professor, School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, University of New South Wales (UNSW) Australia, Sydney, Australia
2. Director, UNSW Digital Grid Futures Institute
3. Director, ARC Research Hub for Integrated Energy Storage Solutions
4. previously as Head, School of Electrical and Information Engineering, the University of Sydney
5. previously as Director, Faculty of Engineering and IT research cluster on Clean Intelligent Energy Networks
6. previously as Ausgrid Chair and Director, Centre for Intelligent Electricity Networks (CIEN), the University of Newcastle
Research Interests: power system planning and stability, smart grid/micro-grid, load modeling, renewable energy grid connection, electricity market, data mining, artificial intelligence and computational methods
Associate Editor
Centre for Green Technology, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Research interests: alternative fuel; IC engine combustion; biofuel; biodiesel; biomass; air pollution; energy conversion; vehicle emissions
Editorial Board Members
Professor Emeritus, Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, USA
Research Interests: combustion and emissions, droplets and sprays, renewable fuels, energy and nanoflow systems
Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering, Ulsan University, Ulsan, South Korea
Research Interests: ocean energy, wave energy converter, hydrostatic transmission (HST), fluid power control, energy harvesting system and mechatronics
- Innovative Catalysis for Carbon Recycling-IC2R srl, via Camillo Rosalba 49, 70124 Bari-Italy
- Interuniversity Consortium on Chemical Reactivity and Catalysis-CIRCC, Via C. Ulpiani, 27, 70126 Bari, Italy
Research interests: Solar chemistry; Carbon Circular Economy; Synfuels; Biofuels; Coprocessing of CO2 and H2O under solar irradiation; Reduction of fossil-C; Net-zero-C-emission energy; Valorization of biomass; LCA applied to synfuels
Mechanical Engineering Department, Engineering Faculty, Kocaeli University, Kocaeli, Turkey
Research interests: Heat Transfer; Energy; Fluid Mechanics; Thermal Engineering; Renewable Energy; CFD Simulation; Numerical Simulation; Nanofluids; Thermal Energy Storage; NZEB
1. Professor, Center for Laser Applications, University of Tennessee Space Institute, Tullahoma, USA
2. Director, Center for Autonomous and Evolving Systems
Research Interests: wind turbine power generation dynamics and control, evolving systems in aerospace applications, quantum information systems and quantum control
Sustainable Engineering Group, Curtin University, Australia
Research interests: sustainable engineering; life cycle assessment; waste management; sustainable energy; renewable energy technologies; energy conservation and management
Università degli Studi di Perugia, Perugia, Italy
Research interests: Energy Efficiency in Building; Energy Saving; Energy Conservation; Sustainability; Sustainable Construction; Sustainable Development; Building Materials; Energy Engineering; Energy; Environmental Engineering
(Keywords: materials optical and thermal characterization; thermal comfort; biomass and bioenergy; acoustics)
1. Professor, College of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, USA
2. Honorary Member, International Society of Electrochemistry
3. Fellow, The Electrochemical Society
Research Interests: electrochemistry, fuel cells, and rechargeable cells
BCEE, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
Research interests: sustainable development; energy and materials recovery from waste streams; innovative water and wastewater treatment; groundwater contamination; bioelectrochemical systems
1. Distinguished Member, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, USA
2. PI, Department of Energy (DOE) Exascale Project on Transforming Combustion Science and Technology with Exascale Simulations
Research Interests: the development and application of massively parallel petascale direct numerical simulations (DNS) of turbulent combustion with complex chemistry
Professor, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, China
Research Interests: bioenergy, hydrogen energy and clean energy
Senior Research Fellow and Research Manager, Centre for Energy Technology, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia
Research Interests: renewable energy, solar thermal energy, combustion, CFD, hybrid systems, reactor development, chemical reactors, heat & mass transfer, aerodynamic, multi-phase flows, renewable fuels, laser diagnostics
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA
Research Interests: micro/smart grids energy management, collaborative distributed control, battery modeling and SoC/SoH/SoF estimation, mechatronics and automation, computational intelligence, energy systems, mobile robots and unmanned vehicles
1. Professor, School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia
2. Deputy Head, School (Education)
3. Executive Research Director, ARC Photovoltaics Centre of Excellence
Research Interests: the third generation photovoltaics, phonon dispersion modulation in nanostructures, high efficiency thermoelectric devices, photoelectrochemical generation of hydrogen, solar fuels, photovoltaics for use in space
School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, Arizona State University, 551 E. Tyler Mall, Tempe, AZ, 85287, USA.
Research interests: adsorbents, catalysts and membranes for sustainable energy and clean water applications.
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain
Research Interests: generation of electricity through renewable sources (off-grid systems and grid-connected systems), advanced optimization techniques and storage of electrical energy (advanced battery models)
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, USA
Research Interests: power system operation and control, power system reliability and economics, microgrid and smart grid, renewable energy integration, and energy infrastructure interdependencies
Lecturer, Environment and Sustainability Institute (ESI), University of Exeter, Penryn, Cornwall, United Kingdom
Research Interests: building integrated wind and PV, LCA of PV and wind system, prediction of wind and solar energy, maintenance and monitoring of PV and wind system, power electronic reliability
Laboratoire de Fiabilite Mecanique, Université de Lorraine, 57045 Moselle Metz, France
Research interests: Fatigue, fracture, reliability, hydrogen embrittlement
1. Professor, Marine Renewable Energy, MaREI, Environmental Research Institute & School of Engineering, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
2. Honorary Professor, Coastal Engineering Research Group, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, United Kingdom
Research Interests: wave energy, tidal energy, offshore wind energy and coastal engineering
Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John’s, Canada
Research interests: Hybrid Power Systems; Renewable Energy Systems; Passive Houses; Electronics and control systems
1. Distinguished Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Idaho, Moscow, USA
2. Chair endowed by Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Power Engineering
Research Interests: power electronic applications for the control of power transmission and distribution systems, power system protection, power quality, energy storage systems, superconductivity applications in transmission and distribution
1. Professor, University of West Attica, Piraeus, Greece
2. Head, Soft Energy Applications and Environmental Protection Laboratory (SEALAB)
3. Chief-Director, Center of Technological Research for Piraeus and Islands
4. Scientific Responsible (Coordinator) for TILOS-Horizon 2020 Project
Research Interests: feasibility analysis of energy sector applications and projects, technological progress in wind, hydro and solar energy market, hybrid energy systems, energy storage issues, integrated solutions for islands, social attitude towards renewable energy applications, and environmental technology-air pollution
Professor, Fuel Cell Laboratory, Arizona State University Polytechnic Campus, Mesa, USA
Research Interests: fuel cells (PEMFC, DMFC, AFC), batteries (SLA, Li-ion) and solar (DSSC, CSP)
Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Research Interests: design, analysis, operation and optimization of various water resource and water-relate energy systems; pipe networks, water supply systems, hydroelectric systems, including prediction of their physical and economic characteristics
Tenured Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China
Research Interests: the development, synthesis, characterisation of structure-property relationships and fracture of advanced materials, including nano-scale reinforcements such as carbon nanotubes, graphene, graphite nanoplates, nanoclay; polymer-based nanocomposites; fibre-reinforced composites; thin films/coatings; transparent conducting thin films; nanostructured materials for Li ion battery electrodes and supercapacitors; and adhesion and debonding in multi-phase materials
CERIS – Civil Engineering Research and Innovation for Sustainability, Lisbon, Portugal
Research interests: Renewable Energy, Hydropower , Environmental Flows , Hydrologic Alteration, Hydrological Modelling, Hydraulic Modeling, Hydraulic Structures, Fluvial Hydraulics, Sediment Transport, Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS), Ecohydraulics, Ecohydrology, Flood Resilience, Droughts, Climate Change, Groundwater
Assistant Professor, Department of Building, School of Design and Environment, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Research Interests: nanotechnology and nanomaterials for green building applications and energy efficiency, green building
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece
Research interests: Engineering, Environment, Energy, Renewable Energy Sources, Low Carbon Economy, Waste Management from Organic Pollutants, Properties of Polymer Materials, Business Administration, Education, Culture, Human Resource Management, Psychology, Urban and Regional Development, Forest Resources Management, Extroversion and Internationalization of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), Development Economics, Environmental Systems, Circular Economy, Behavioral Ecology
Grupo ITEA, Departamento de Ingeniería Térmica, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Avda. de la Universidad 30, 28911 Leganés, Spain
Research interests: Innovative tools for sustainable development; solar energy and energy storage; Modeling of energy systems dynamics; Management of research projects. Experimental characterization of thermal systems.
Department of Environmental Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 70101, Taiwan
Research Interests: Hydrogen energy; Carbon capture; CO2 utilization; Sustainable resources
Departamento de Enxeñería Eléctrica, Universidade de Vigo, Vigo, Spain
Research interests: wind energy; wind speed simulation; wind turbines
Professor and Researcher, IN2P3 National Institute of Nuclear Physics and Particle Physics of CNRS, Grenoble, France
Research Interests: aspects of modelling and simulation and safety research and design of nuclear reactors, and the reactor fission, such as fourth generation fuel in molten salt; nuclear development scenarios
Swanson School of Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Research interests: CO2 capture from flue gas, fuel gas and natural gas streams using chemical and physical solvents; Direct Air Capture (DAC); Modeling, simulation and optimization of industrial processes; Design and scaleup of multiphase reactors; Hydrodynamics and Mass Transfer in multi-phase reactors; Fisher-Tropsch synthesis; Enhanced oil recovery using CO2 and alcohols
Professor, School of Sciences, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University, Melbourne, Australia
Research Interests: advanced renewable bioenergy and environmental biotechnology
Professor, Department of Building and Real Estate, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
Research Interests: solid oxide fuel cells, solid oxide electrolyzer cells, energy recovery from waste treatment, flow batteries and microfluidics
1. Director and Professor, Institute of Engineering and Energy Technologies, University of the West of Scotland, Ayr, United Kingdom
2. Chair and Head, Department of Sustainable and Renewable Energy Engineering, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Research Interests: sustainable energy and alternative fuel systems, energy storage systems, prototype developments for tidal energy, hydrogen cell developments, algal solutions for a local energy economy
Professor, Agricultural University of Athens, Athens, Greece
Research Interests: photovoltaic and hybrid renewable energy systems (and microgrids), biomass for energy such as investigation of energy production technologies utilizing liquid and solid biofuels
Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy
Research interests: Waste to energy; Circular economy; SOFC; Biogas; Gas cleaning; VOCs monitoring; Thermal energy, Thermodynamics, Affordable and clean energy, Concentrated solar power, Renewable energy, Road Tunnel and New Energy Carriers, Safety on road tunnels.
Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Jain University, 562112, Karnataka, India
Research interests: development of novel polymeric nano materials for Super-capacitor; Photo-catalytic; fuel cell, battery storage & separation applications; energy & environment management; water treatment; polymeric drug delivery system; food & microbial/biotech chemistry; solar energy; micro electronic device, etc.
Professor, Department of Architecture and Built Environment, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
Research Interests: sustainable HVAC systems, renewable energy and energy storage
Research Director, Industrial Systems Institute, Patra, Greece
Research Interests:
1) Electric Power Generators and Power Electronics: synchronous generators, permanent magnet synchronous generators, doubly-fed induction generators, doubly-fed reluctance generators, gas-turbine electric power units, hybrid-excited synchronous generators, steam-turbine electric power units, wind-turbine electric power units, hydropower generators, multi-phase generators, distributed electric power transmission and distribution systems. Applications to power electronics, such as DC-DC converters, DC-AC inverters, AC-DC converters, DC-AC inverters and active power filters, power transformers, batteries and capacitors, VSC-HVDC transmission systems, components of the smart grid, photovoltaic units, fuel cells units.
2) Electric motors: permanent magnet synchronous motors, brushless DC motors, permanent magnet linear motors, synchronous reluctance motors, induction motors, induction linear motors doubly-fed reluctance machines and multi-phase machines, switched reluctance motors.
Professor, University of Castilla La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain
Research Interests: the development of electrochemical processes for a cleaner environment, electrosynthesis of oxidants and fuel cell technology
Center of Physics and Engineering of Advanced Materials, Laboratory for Physics of Materials and Emerging Technologies, Chemical Engineering Department, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon 1049-001, Portugal
Research interests: electrochemical energy conversion and storage, green hydrogen production, direct liquid fuel cells
University of West Attica, Athens, Greece
Research interests: Turbulence; Fluid Mechanics; Computational Fluid Dynamics; Numerical Simulation; CFD Simulation; Computational Fluid Mechanics; Numerical Modeling; Numerical Analysis; Aerodynamics; Modeling and Simulation.
University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, United States
Research interests: Fundamental electronic structures, photonic behaviours, and magnetic properties of nanomaterials; design and development of nano biohybrids for novel applications in energy and biomedicine; spectral selective 3D solar harvest and energy generation via bio-inspired transparent thin films; bio photonics for sensing, polymer drug/gene delivery for medical diagnosis and therapeutics; mechanical properties of ceramic nanocomposites in extreme conditions; nanoparticles for tunable photonics; plasma polymerization of nanoparticles for surface modification and conjugation of biological molecules.
Keyworks: spectral selective nanohybrids, transparent photothermal films, 3D solar harvesting, synergistic energy generation, nanomedicine, precision cancer therapy, gene and drug delivery, nano biosensing.
Associate Professor, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore City, Singapore
Research Interests: micro/nano fabrication, electrochemistry, fuel cells, solar cells, and renewable energy
Center for Reliability Sciences and Technologies, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, 333, Taiwan.
Research interests: Reliability Physics; Reliability statistics; finite element methods; material sciences; materials reliability; components reliability; system reliability; Battery reliability; LED reliability
Founder and Director, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Lab (ReSEL)
Technical University of Crete, Greece
Research interests: Sustainability, Environmental Engineering, Sustainable Energy, Sustainable Mobility, Smart Cities, Environmental Economics, Renewable Energy, Solar Power, Environmental Impact Assessment
Associate Professor, University of Sannio, Benevento, Italy
Research Interests: optimal power system, energy systems with multiple energy carriers, power systems, smart grids optimization, and Hybrid Electric Vehicles
School of Engineering, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS 7001, Australia
Research interests: energy storage and conversion; thermodynamics; ORC power system; renewable energy; heat pump
Mie University. Tsu, Japan. Visiting Professor Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Shanghai, China
Research interests: solid electrolyte; lithium-air battery; lithium metal anode; solid state battery
Universiti Putra Malaysia Serdang, Malaysia
Research interests: Heavy metals, Bivalves, Biomonitoring, Environmental Biology, Environmental Pollution
1. Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
2. Vice Chancellor's Professorial Fellow, Pro Vice-Chancellor and President, Monash Suzhou
3. Founding Director, ARC Research Hub for Computational Particle Technology
Research Interests: powder technology, nano-particles and application, simulation of particulate systems, inter-facial engineering in multi-phase processes, physical and mathematical modelling of particulate and multiphase processes, industrial application, and fluid flow, heat and mass transfer in packed and fluidised beds
Department of Process Engineering, Memorial University, St. John’s, NL, Canada
Research interests: Energy and Environment, Transport Phenomena, Process Systems Engineering, Carbon Management, Multi-Scale Modeling and Optimization, Machine Learning
1 Assistant Professor, Sustainable Energy and Environment Thrust, Function Hub
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Nansha, China
2 Assistant Professor, Division of Emerging Interdisciplinary Areas
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong SAR
3 Affiliate Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, School of Engineering. The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong SAR
4 HKUST Shenzhen-Hong Kong Collaborative Innovation Research Institute, Futian, Shenzhen 518048, China
Research interests: Zero-energy buildings; Energy flexible buildings; Renewable energy Advanced energy management with battery and hydrogen; Latent heat storage; Smart and optimal systems with machine-learning
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