Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy - Special Issue: Economic Sustainability of Clean Technologies
Every day, a plethora of concepts are submitted to research journals and patent offices all around the world in which authors claim that their technologies are cleaner and sustainable. These concepts usually contain proposals that, in line with the concept of circular economy, prevent pollution, reduce material or energy consumption, recover waste, address issues related to water, soil, air and alternative energy sources etc.
While many of the proposals discussed have the potential for environmental improvement, the vast majority of these concepts cannot be implemented because they are conceptually infeasible due to their complete disregard for economic reality.
The goal of the Special Issue "Economic Sustainability of Clean Technologies" is to remind the community that economic sustainability is a mandatory prerequisite for environmental sustainability. Editors of this special issue will try to point out concepts that are not only environmentally friendly, but also have the potential to be commercialized on an industrial scale. This means that we are calling for manuscripts that are accompanied by analyses on material and energy flows from which a cost breakdown, basic financial analysis and economic considerations can be derived to strengthen the argumentation on sustainability.
The backbone of the manuscripts will consist of presentations from the ICPPCT 2023 (this opens in a new tab) international conference, with additional manuscripts invited from leading experts in the field, and all promising authors in the field are welcome to submit additional manuscripts without invitation.
Guest editors:
Dr. Josef Maroušek (Lead Guest editor) is a team leader at the Institute of Technology and Business in České Budějovice (Czech Republic). Given the background in agriculture, biotechnology and business, most of activities concern commercialization and economic optimization of environmental technologies. In addition, Josef is inventor of dozens of patents, he is providing forensic expertise in environmental engineering; project coordination; valuation of intellectual property; advising services and the like. (josef.marousek@gmail.com)
Dr. Gopalakrishnan Kumar serves as associate professor in University of Stavanger, Norway. His major research interests include biofuel/biochemical production from lignocellulose/waste/wastewater and algal biomass via biorefinery and valorization schemes and microbial fuel/electrolysis cell technologies. Additionally, he is working on the application of green synthesized activated carbon and nano particles for various environmental remediation applications. (gopalakrishnanchml@gmail.com)
Dr. Grzegorz Piechota runs his own Laboratory - GPCHEM Laboratory of Biogas Research and Analysis (Poland). Although he is predominantly an entrepreneur in industry (analysis and purification of biogas), he is a leading scientist in the field of biogas upgrading to biomethane, and biohydrogen in sustainable renewable energy development. (gp@gpchem.pl)
Important dates:
Submission due date: 30 April 2024
Peer review deadline: 30 July 2024
How to submit: Manuscripts should be original and written in English. The suggested length per article is up to 10,000 words, excluding references. Submission requires that the manuscript has not been submitted for review or publication elsewhere and that it will not be submitted elsewhere while the review process is underway. All papers go through external peer review by at least two experts. Papers should be submitted online via this link (this opens in a new tab) Please indicate that your manuscript belongs to the “Economic Sustainability of Clean Technologies” special issue in the “Additional Information” tab during the submission process. Details about the preparation of the manuscript can be obtained from the journal's webpage (this opens in a new tab).