Thursday, 23 December 2021

HPSM/OPTI/SUSI 2022 - Call for Papers

International Conference on High Performance and Optimum Structures and Materials Encompassing Shock and Impact Loading

11–13 July 2022

Lisbon, Portugal

Introduction


This scientific event is a new edition of the High Performance and Optimum Design of Structures and Materials Conference and follows that originated in Southampton as long ago as 1989 and the Structures under Shock and Impact that started in Cambridge, Massachusetts, also in 1989

The use of novel materials and new structural concepts nowadays is not restricted to highly technical areas like aerospace, aeronautical applications or the automotive industry, but affects all engineering fields including those such as civil engineering and architecture. The conference addresses issues involving advanced types of structures, particularly those based on new concepts. Contributions will highlight the latest development in design and manufacturing issues.

Most high-performance structures require the development of a generation of new materials, which can more easily resist a range of external stimuli or react in a non-conventional manner. Particular emphasis will be placed on intelligent structures and materials as well as the application of computational methods for their modelling, control and management.

The conference also addresses the topic of design optimisation. Contributions on numerical methods and different optimisation techniques are also welcome, as well as papers on new software. Optimisation problems of interest to the meeting involve those related to size, shape and topology of structures and materials. Optimisation techniques have much to offer to those involved in the design of new industrial products, as the appearance of powerful commercial computer codes has created a fertile field for the incorporation of optimisation in the design process in all engineering disciplines.

The performance of the structures under shock and impact loads is another objective of the meeting. The increasing need to protect civilian infrastructure and industrial facilities against unintentional loads arising from accidental impact and explosion events as well as terrorist attacks is reflected in the sustained interest worldwide. While advances have been made in the last decades, many challenges remain, such as developing more effective and efficient blast and impact mitigation approaches than those that currently exist or assessing the uncertainties associated with large and small scale testing and validation of numerical and analytical models. All of that aimed to a better understanding of critical issues relating to the testing behaviour, modelling and analyses of protective structures against blast and impact loading.

The meeting will provide a friendly and useful forum for the interchange of ideas and interaction amongst researchers, designers and scholars in the community to share advances in the scientific fields related to the conference topics.

All conference papers are archived in the Wessex Institute eLibrary (www.witpress.com/elibrary) where they are easily and permanently available in Open Access format to the international community.

Conference Topics

The following list covers some of the topics to be presented at HPSM/OPTI/SUSI 2022. Papers on other subjects related to the objectives of the conference are also welcome.

  • Composite materials
  • Material characterisation
  • Natural fibre composites
  • Nanocomposites
  • Green composites
  • Composites for automotive applications
  • Transformable structures
  • Environmentally friendly and sustainable structures
  • Reliability-based design optimisation
  • Non-deterministic approaches
  • Evolutionary methods in optimisation
  • Aerospace structures
  • Biomechanics application
  • Lightweight structures
  • Design for sustainability
  • Design for durability
  • Lifecycle assessment
  • Structural reliability
  • Smart materials and structures
  • Optimization of civil engineering structures
  • Optimization in mechanical engineering
  • Optimization in the car industry
  • Design optimization of tall buildings
  • Metaheuristic algorithms
  • New algorithms for size and topology optimisation
  • BIM tools for design optimization
  • Emerging materials
  • Impact and blast loading
  • Energy-absorbing issues
  • Computational and experimental results
  • Response of reinforced concrete under impact
  • Seismic behaviour
  • Protection of existing structures
  • Industrial accidents and explosions
  • Security issues
  • Response of composite structures to blast and impact
  • Vehicle impact
  • Ballistics analysis
  • Dynamic material behaviour
  • Fluid-structure interaction
  • Seismic soil-structure interaction
  • Case studies

Tuesday, 21 December 2021

FRIAR 2022 - Call for Papers

8th International Conference on Flood and Urban Water Management

6–8 July 2022

Milan, Italy

Introduction


FRIAR 2022 is the eighth conference of this successful series. The conference started at the Institution of Civil Engineers in London in 2008 and was reconvened in Milan in 2010, Dubrovnik in 2012, Poznan in 2014, Venice in 2016, A Coruna in 2018 and online in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Since 2012 a parallel seminar on the Design, Construction, Maintenance, Monitoring and Control of Urban Water has taken place which is now an integral part of the conference.

Flooding is a global phenomenon that claims numerous lives worldwide each year. When flooding occurs in urban areas, it can cause substantial damage to property as well as threatening human life. In addition, many more people must endure the homelessness, upset and disruption that are left in the wake of floods. The increased frequency of flooding in the last few years, coupled with climate change predictions and urban development, suggest that these impacts are set to worsen in the future. How we respond and importantly, adapt to these challenges is key to developing our long term resilience at the property, community and city scale.

Apart from the physical damage to buildings, contents and loss of life, which are the most obvious, impacts of floods upon households, other more indirect losses are often overlooked. These indirect and intangible impacts are generally associated with disruption to normal life as well as longer-term health issues including community displacements and stress-related illnesses. Flooding represents a major barrier to the alleviation of poverty in many parts of the developing world, where vulnerable communities are often exposed to sudden and life-threatening events.

As our cities continue to expand, their urban infrastructures need to be re-evaluated and adapted to new requirements related to the increase in population and the growing areas under urbanization. We also need to consider more nature-based interventions to the management of flood risk, including the adoption of more catchment-based approaches. These are now being recognised as being more sustainable and also able to achieve wider benefits to the environment and society as a whole.

This conference also considers these problems and deals with two main urban water topics: water supply systems and urban drainage. Topics such as contamination and pollution discharges in urban water bodies, as well as the monitoring of water recycling systems are currently receiving a great deal of attention from researchers and professional engineers working in the water industry. Water distribution networks often suffer substantial losses which represent wastage of energy and treatment. Effective, efficient and energy-saving management is necessary in order to optimize their performance. Sewer systems are under constant pressure due to growing urbanization and climate change, and the environmental impact caused by urban drainage overflows is related to both water quantity and water quality.

FRIAR seeks to develop an improved understanding of emerging flood risk management and urban water management challenges, drawing on the expertise of numerous disciplines and considering a range of responses. The conference provides a rich forum for the development of innovative solutions that can help bring about multiple benefits toward achieving integrated flood risk and urban water management strategies and policy.

The meeting is aimed to attract researchers, academics and practitioners actively involved in improving our understanding of urban water systems and flood events. It will bring together social scientists, surveyors, engineers, scientists, and other professionals from many countries involved in research and development activities in a wide range of technical and management topics related to urban water and flooding and its impacts on communities, property and people.

Papers presented at this conference, as all other meetings run by the Wessex Institute, are archived in the WIT eLibrary (www.witpress.com/elibrary) and are easily and permanently available in Open Access format to the international community.

Conference Topics

The following list covers some of the topics to be presented at FRIAR 2022. Papers on other subjects related to the objectives of the conference are also welcome.

  • Floods
    • Flood risk management
    • Flood warning and forecasting
    • Flood response and recovery
    • Flood protection
    • Flood modelling
    • Flood mitigation
    • Flood vulnerability
    • Climate change impact
    • Flood damage assessment
    • Socio and economic impact
    • Community engagement
    • Emergency planning
    • Blue-green infrastructure
    • Resilient approaches
    • Catchment-based approaches
    • Natural flood management
    • Remote sensing in flood applications
    • Risk areas
    • Property flood resilience

  • Urban Water Systems
    • Water supply networks
    • Leakage and losses
    • Modelling and experimentation
    • Safety and security of water systems
    • Water quality
    • Water savings and reuse
    • Wastewater treatment and reuse
    • Urban drainage systems
    • Stormwater management
    • Watershed management
    • Structural works and infrastructure
    • Maintenance and repairs
    • Sustainable urban drainage systems (SuDs)
    • Greywater
    • Rainwater harvesting
    • Water and sewage systems in urban areas
    • Water retention

  • Case studies

Monday, 20 December 2021

Air and Water Pollution 2022 - Call for Papers

30th International Conference on Modelling, Monitoring and Management of Air and Water Pollution

5–7 July 2022

Milan, Italy

Introduction


This conference is the merging of two successful events organised by the Wessex Institute, the International Conference on Modelling, Monitoring and Management of Air Pollution which started in Mexico in 1993; and the International Conference on Monitoring, Modelling and Management of Water Pollution which originated in Southampton, UK in 1991.

The meetings in the Air Pollution series have discussed and considered many important air pollution issues and the international nature of the attendees has ensured that the conference findings and conclusions enjoy wide and rapid dissemination amongst the air pollution science and policy communities. The series has demonstrated the widespread nature of the air pollution phenomena and has explored in depth their impacts on human health and the environment.

The scientific knowledge derived from well-designed studies needs to be allied with further technical and economic studies in order to ensure cost-effective and efficient mitigation. In turn, the science, technology and economic outcomes are necessary but not sufficient. Increasingly, the conference has recognised that the outcome of such research needs to be contextualised within well-formulated communication strategies that help policymakers and citizens to understand and appreciate the risks and rewards arising from air pollution management. Consequently, the series has enjoyed a wide range of high-quality papers that develop the fundamental science of air pollution and an equally impressive range of presentations that places these new developments within the frame of mitigation and management of air pollution.

The Water Pollution conference series has provided a forum for discussion amongst scientists, managers and academics from different areas of water contamination.

The environmental problems caused by the increase of pollutant loads discharged into natural water bodies requires the formation of a framework for regulation and control. This framework needs to be based on scientific results that relate pollutant discharge with changes in water quality. The results of these studies allow the industry to apply more efficient methods of controlling and treating waste loads, and water authorities to enforce appropriate regulations regarding this matter.

Environmental problems are essentially interdisciplinary. Engineers and scientists working in this field must be familiar with a wide range of issues including the physical processes of mixing and dilution, chemical and biological processes, mathematical modelling, data acquisition and measurement, to name but a few. In view of the scarcity of available data, it is important that experiences are shared on an international basis. Thus, a continuous exchange of information between scientists from different countries is essential.

All published papers from previous meetings are archived in the Wessex Institute eLibrary (www.witpress.com/elibrary) where they are easily and permanently available in Open Access format to the international community.

Conference Topics

The following list covers some of the topics to be presented at Air and Water Pollution 2022. Papers on other subjects related to the objectives of the conference are also welcome.

    • Air pollution modelling and monitoring
    • Atmospheric modelling and forecasting
    • Aerosols and nanoparticles
    • Emission studies
    • Global, regional and local studies
    • Interdisciplinary studies on air quality
    • Health risk
    • Indoor air pollution
    • Industrial and transport air pollution
    • Biogenic and biomass emissions
    • Anthropogenic pollution
    • Coastal and offshore water pollution
    • Agricultural water contamination
    • Industrial water pollution
    • Climate change effects
    • Emerging pollutants
    • Air/water legislation and justice
    • Low carbon strategies
    • Education, public perception and engagement
    • Socio-economic-political causes and consequences
    • Emergent techniques and technologies
    • Pollution dynamics
    • Dredging work
    • Wastewater and saltwater management
    • Water reuse
    • Groundwater and aquifers
    • Freshwater quality
    • Urban water
    • Sustainable urban drainage systems
    • Case studies

Thursday, 16 December 2021

Sustainable Development and Planning 2022 - Call for Papers

12th International Conference on Sustainable Development and Planning

Madrid, Spain

8–10 June 2022

Introduction


The 12th International Conference on Sustainable Development and Planning builds upon a series that started in 2003 in Skiathos, Greece, followed by other meetings in Bologna (2005), Algarve (2007), Cyprus (2009), New Forest – home of the Wessex Institute, UK (2011); Kos, Greece (2013), Istanbul (2015), Penang (2016), the University of the West of England in Bristol, UK (2017), Siena (2018) and Online in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Planners, environmentalists, architects, engineers, policymakers and economists have to work together to ensure that planning and development can meet our present needs without compromising the ability of future generations.

Problems related to development and planning, which affect rural and urban areas, are present in all regions of the world. Accelerated urbanisation has resulted in the deterioration of the environment and loss of quality of life. Urban development can also aggravate problems faced by rural areas such as forests, mountain regions and coastal areas, amongst many others. Taking into consideration the interaction between different regions and developing new methodologies for monitoring, planning and implementation of novel strategies can offer solutions mitigating environmental pollution and non-sustainable use of available resources.

Energy-saving and eco-friendly building approaches have become an important part of modern development, which places special emphasis on resource optimisation. Planning has a key role to play in ensuring that these solutions, as well as new materials and processes, are incorporated in the most efficient manner.

Sustainable Development and Planning 2022 will bring together academics, policymakers, practitioners and other stakeholders from across the globe to discuss the latest advances in the field. The conference will discuss new academic findings and their application in planning and development strategies, assessment tools, and decision-making processes.

All published papers from previous meetings are archived in the Wessex Institute eLibrary (www.witpress.com/elibrary) where they are easily and permanently available in Open Access format to the international community.

Conference Topics

The following list covers some of the topics to be presented at Sustainable Development and Planning 2022. Papers on other subjects related to the objectives of the conference are also welcome.

    • Regional planning
    • City planning and urban growth
    • Rural areas developments
    • Circular economy
    • Sustainability and the built environment
    • Eco-architecture
    • Sustainable Infrastructures
    • Heritage conservation
    • Sustainable tourism
    • Governance and policies
    • Education for sustainable development
    • Sustainable development indicators and indexes
    • Sustainable development goals
    • Natural Resources management
    • Sustainable supply chains
    • Sustainable solutions in emerging countries
    • Sustainable mobility
    • Sustainable energy resources
    • Energy efficiency
    • Waste management
    • Carbon and ecological footprint
    • Smartgrid and microgrid
    • Climate change
    • Safety aspects
    • Community and social planning
    • Quality of life
    • Socio-economic issues
    • Water pollution
    • Air contamination
    • Noise pollution
    • Case studies

Monday, 13 December 2021

Waste Management and Environmental Impact 2022 - Call for Papers

11th International Conference on Waste Management and Environmental and Economic Impact on Sustainable Development

7–9 June 2022

Madrid, Spain

Introduction


This conference is the merging of two successful events organised by the Wessex Institute, the International Conference on Waste Management and the Environment which started in Cadiz, Spain in 2002; and the International Conference on Environmental and Economic Impact on Sustainable Development which originated in 2012 in Ancona, Italy.

Waste management is one of the key problems of modern society due to the ever-expanding volume and complexity of discarded domestic and industrial waste and its implications on health and the environment. Society is increasingly aware of the need to establish better practices and safer solutions for waste disposal. This creates a need for more research on current disposal methods such as landfills, incineration, chemical and effluent treatment, as well as recycling, clean technologies, waste monitoring, public and corporate awareness and general education.

The desired direction of waste management is towards sustainable strategies that avoid the short term solutions applied in the past. The approach which has emerged as the most promising has been called 4Rs, where reduction, reuse, recycling and recovery are seen as the best actions. More recently these concepts have given rise to the new model of the ‘Circular Economy’, which is based on the reuse of what up to now has been considered waste, reintroducing them into the production cycle. Further steps are required towards the improvement of current technologies, increased collaboration between the public, government and private sectors and increased involvement of all stakeholders.

A focus will also be placed on the impact of economic constraints on the environment, taking into account the social aspects as well as the over-use of natural resources, contamination and toxicity. The conference will address problems of great importance, promoting discussion of more constructive and progressive approaches to ensure sustainability. A major motivation for the meeting is to learn from past failures, to avoid repeating similar mistakes, while attempting to prevent emerging threats to environmental and ecological systems.

All published papers from previous meetings are archived in the Wessex Institute eLibrary (www.witpress.com/elibrary) where they are easily and permanently available in Open Access format to the international community.

Conference Topics

The following list covers some of the topics to be presented at Waste Management and Environmental Impact 2022. Papers on other subjects related to the objectives of the conference are also welcome.

  • Environmental strategies and tactics
  • Environmental management systems
  • Legislation and regulations
  • UN Sustainable Development Goals
  • Life cycle assessments
  • Sustainability appraisals
  • Sustainable cities
  • Natural resources management
  • Air, soil and water pollution
  • Industrial and hazardous waste management
  • Radioactive waste management
  • Agricultural waste
  • Electronic waste (E-Waste)
  • Health care waste
  • Waste monitoring and management
  • Energy from waste
  • Waste treatment technologies
  • Food waste reduction and impact on the environment
  • Ecosystems preservation
  • Environmental remediation strategies
  • Adaptation to environmental damage
  • Coastal zones impacts
  • Public communication and stakeholders involvement
  • Social-ecological issues
  • Environmental and economic education
  • Reduce, reuse, recycle and recovery (4Rs)
  • Circular economy
  • Secondary raw materials (SM)
  • Emerging issues in waste management
  • Case studies

Thursday, 9 December 2021

Sustainable Tourism 2022 - Call for Papers

10th International Conference on Sustainable Tourism

25–27 May 2022

Tallinn, Estonia

Introduction


Sustainable Tourism 2022 is the tenth meeting organised in this successful series. The first was held in Segovia (2004), followed by Bologna (2006), Malta (2008), the New Forest, home of the Wessex Institute (2010), A Coruña (2012), Opatija, Croatia (2014), Valencia (2016), Vienna (2018) and online in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Today, tourism is an important component of development, not only in economic terms but also for knowledge and human welfare. Tourism today is an activity accessible to a growing number of people.

The phenomenon has many more advantages than disadvantages. New forms of economic development and increasing wealth of human societies depend on tourism. Our knowledge of the world now includes a strong component due to tourism. Human welfare has physiological and psychological elements, which tourism promotes, both because of the enjoyment of knowing new territories and increasing contacts with near or far away societies and cultures.

The tourism industry has nevertheless given rise to some serious concerns, including social costs and ecological impacts. Many ancient local cultures have practically lost their identity. Their societies have orientated their economy only to this industry. Both the natural and cultural – rural or urban – landscapes have also paid a high price for certain forms of tourism. These problems will persist if the economic benefit is the only target, leading to economic gains that eventually become ruinous. It is also important to consider that visitors nowadays are increasingly demanding in cultural and environmental terms.

Never before have transport and communication links been so important as today. Natural ecosystems are now a rarity on the planet and ecologists talk today about ‘socio-ecosystems’. Given this, tourism and environmental education are facing a major challenge.

Tourism also plays an important role in the natural environmental changes that are strongly affected by technological and social developments. Natural changes are inherent in the Earth’s ecosystem (the ‘ecosphere’). Also, technological and social changes are inherent to mankind (the ‘noosphere’) and are now becoming widespread. Cities are growing rapidly and industry requires increasingly larger areas. Many traditional rural areas are being abandoned. However, many historic agricultural districts have maintained, or even recovered, their local population numbers through intelligent strategies of tourism focused on nature and rural culture. Natural landscapes and biodiversity are becoming increasingly appreciated. The tourism industry must be able to respond to these aspirations.

This conference aims to find ways to protect the natural and cultural landscape through the development of new solutions which minimise the adverse effects of tourism. This can be achieved through new strategies involving the active collaboration of society as a whole.

All published papers from previous meetings are archived in the Wessex Institute eLibrary (www.witpress.com/elibrary) where they are easily and permanently available in Open Access format to the international community.

Conference Topics

The following list covers some of the topics to be presented at the conference. Papers on other subjects related to the objectives of the conference are also welcome.

  • Tourism strategies
  • Environmental issues
  • Climate change
  • Safety and security
  • Tourism as a tool of development
  • Heritage tourism
  • Marine and coastal areas tourism
  • Sport tourism
  • Tourism impact
  • Tourism and protected areas
  • Ecotourism
  • Rural tourism
  • Tourism and technology
  • Industrial tourism
  • Transport and tourism
  • Education and tourism
  • Destination management
  • eTourism
  • Simulation models
  • Social and physical infrastructure
  • Gastronomic tourism
  • The role of the landscape on tourism
  • Dark tourism
  • Project image
  • Sustainability assessments
  • Cultural tourism
  • Medical and health tourism
  • The role of local communities
  • Sustainable business models
  • Problems related to the implementation of sustainable tourism
  • Case studies

Tuesday, 7 December 2021

BEM/MRM 45 - Call for Papers

45th International Conference on Boundary Elements and other Mesh Reduction Methods

24–26 May 2022

Tallinn, Estonia

Introduction


The annual conference on Boundary Elements and other Mesh Reduction Methods (BEM/MRM), now in its 45th version, is to take place in 2022.

Since starting in 1978, the Conference has attracted high-quality papers that report further advances in techniques that reduce or eliminate the type of meshes associated with finite elements or finite differences, for instance.

Theoretical developments and new formulations have been reported, helping to expand the range of applications as well as the type of modelled materials in response to the requirements of contemporary industrial and professional environments. This ability to evolve is reflected in the history of the Conference and has ensured the success of the meetings as well as the establishment of a community of stakeholders.

As design, analysis and manufacture become more integrated, the chances are that software users will be less aware of the capabilities of the analytical techniques that are at the core of the process. This reinforces the need to retain expertise in certain specialised areas of numerical methods, such as BEM/MRM, to ensure that all new tools perform satisfactorily within the aforementioned integrated process.

The maturity of BEM since 1978 has resulted in a substantial number of industrial applications of the method; this demonstrates its accuracy, robustness and ease of use. The range of applications still needs to be widened, taking into account the potentialities of the Mesh Reduction techniques in general.

This well-established conference acts as a forum to discuss new ideas and critically compare results before the developed solutions and tools are released to end-users.

The meeting welcomes all stakeholders interested in the methods and particularly the participation of young researchers. Their new contributions have been the principal reason why the conference has continued to evolve.

The meetings since 1978 have produced a collection of edited volumes in which the major developments in the field have been represented. This valuable series has been offered in digital form since 1993, with all papers available Open Access in the Wessex Institute’s eLibrary website (www.witpress.com/elibrary), where they can be easily accessed and downloaded for free.

Conference Topics

The following list covers some of the topics to be presented at BEM/MRM 45. Papers on other subjects related to the objectives of the conference are also welcome.

  • Advanced formulations
  • Fast multipole BEM
  • Advanced meshless and mesh reduction methods
  • Hybrid formulations
  • Interfacing with other methods
  • Computational methods
  • Solution of large systems of equations
  • H-matrices and wavelets
  • Multiscale problems
  • Stochastic modelling
  • Other numerical techniques not necessarily meshless
  • Solid mechanics
  • Heat and mass transfer
  • Fluid flow modelling
  • Damage mechanics and fracture
  • Dynamics and vibrations
  • Wave propagation phenomena
  • Particle-particle interaction methods
  • Engineering and industrial applications
  • Structural mechanics applications
  • Electrical engineering and electromagnetics
  • Applications in biomedical engineering
  • Design optimisation and inverse problems
  • Coupling with design and manufacturing
  • Computer science issues related to any of the above topics
  • Characterisation based on simulation and experimental data
  • Case Studies

Thursday, 2 December 2021

Energy Production and Management 2022 - Call for papers

5th International Conference on Energy Production and Management

23–25 May 2022

Tallinn, Estonia

Introduction


The 5th International Conference on Energy Production and Management follows the very successful meetings held in Ekaterinburg (2014), Ancona (2016), New Forest, UK (2018), home of the Wessex Institute and online in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The aim of the meeting is to discuss the future of energy production, operation and management in a changing world.

The objective is to compare conventional energy sources, particularly hydrocarbons, with a number of other ways of producing energy, emphasising new technological developments, based on renewable resources such as solar, hydro, wind and geothermal.

A key issue is the conversion of new sustainable sources of energy into useful forms (electricity, heat, fuel), while finding efficient ways of storage and distribution. In many cases, the challenges lie as much with the production of such renewable energy at an acceptable cost, including damage to the environment, as with the integration of those resources into the existing infrastructure.

The changes required to progress from an economy based mainly on hydrocarbons to one taking advantage of sustainable energy resources are massive and require considerable scientific research as well as the development of advanced engineering systems. Such progress demands close collaboration between different disciplines in order to arrive at optimum solutions.

The Conference also discusses the energy use of industrial processes, including the embedded energy contents of materials, such as those in the built environment. Energy production, operation, distribution and usage, result in environmental risks which need to be better understood. They are part of energy economics and relate to human environmental health as well as ecosystems behaviour.

An important objective of the conference is to discuss ways in which more efficient use can be made of conventional as well as new energy sources. This relates to savings in energy consumption, reduction of energy losses, as well as the implementation of smart devices and the design of intelligent distribution networks.

All published papers from previous meetings are permanently archived in the Wessex Institute eLibrary (www.witpress.com/elibrary) where they are freely available to the international community.

Conference Topics

The following list covers some of the topics to be presented at Energy Production and Management 2022. Papers on other subjects related to the objectives of the conference are also welcome.

  • Energy policies
  • Energy management and economics
  • Energy conversion and generation
  • Energy efficiency
  • Energy sustainability
  • Energy safety and security
  • Smart grids
  • Energy transmission and distribution
  • Processing of coal, oil and gas
  • GHGs Emissions
  • Renewable energies
  • Biomass and biofuels
  • Solar energy: Thermal, photovoltaic, high -T
  • Offshore and inland wind turbine farms
  • Green power plants
  • Geothermal energy
  • Waste to energy
  • Energy and the built environment
  • Energy storage
  • Automation of energy systems
  • Hybrid energy systems
  • Energy recovery
  • Nuclear energy
  • Environmental impact
  • Energy and climate change
  • Environmental sustainability
  • Energy business
  • Services in the energy sector
  • Methodology of education for sustainable energy
  • Case studies