Sustainable development of energy, water and environment systems for future energy technologies and concepts

Abstract The Conferences on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems – SDEWES conferences at the beginning of the 21st century become a significant venue for researchers to meet, and initiate, discuss, share, and disseminate new ideas in various disciplines of sustainable development. In 2002, the first conference was organised in Dubrovnik, Croatia and following the tradition for odd years, the 10th SDEWES Conference again took place in Dubrovnik, Croatia from September 27th to October 2nd 2015. The total number of 1204 submitted abstracts resulted with 551 accepted manuscripts bringing 538 participants from 65 countries that participated in a number of oral and poster presentations, panels, invited lectures, and special events. Moreover, 17 special sessions were organised including 166 invited speakers. This editorial is based primarily upon 32 papers selected from among 551 contributions presented at the 10th SDEWES Conference but it also provides a wider picture on the contributions from previous SDEWES conferences. It summarises SDEWES published articles that have addressed identified problems or provided the background for the research that is reported in the current special issue. The main topics of these papers address sustainable combustion technologies, heat exchangers, waste heat recovery, sustainable buildings, campuses and communities, renewable energy technologies and sources, as well as energy system flexibility and energy storage.

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