Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to invite you to contribute to our Special Issue titled “Low Temperature Heat Driven Technologies”, which will be published in the MDPI journal Energies. This Special Issue is open to submission of review and research articles focusing on harnessing low-temperature heat via advanced thermal systems for generating electrical power, refrigeration, or both with hybrid system configurations.

The aim of this Special Issue is to provide insights into the latest developments in heat driven technologies with special focus on low-grade heat utilization. Low-grade heat is not only abundantly available from various industrial processes as waste heat but a huge amount of it is also available from solar thermal and geothermal sources, etc. While there are a few commercial technologies operating at medium temperature ranges (150-300 ºC), there is still a lot of room and potential for R&D in the low-temperature range (<100 ºC).

The topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to:

• thermodynamic cycles for waste heat recovery;
• low-grade heat driven refrigeration systems;
• solar thermal refrigeration;
• low-grade heat driven ORC systems and their advanced configurations;
• hybrid cycles;
• Combined Cooling and Power (CCP) cycles;
• cogeneration, trigeneration and polygeneration systems;
• energy and exergy analysis of thermal systems;
• modelling and simulation of thermal systems;
• integration of thermal energy storage;
• heat transfer enhancement;
• geothermal energy utilization;
• CFD design and optimization for energy efficiency.

We look forward to receiving your paper. Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions.

Prof. Dr. Siaw Kiang Chou
Dr. Fahid Riaz
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Energies is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• waste heat recovery
• waste heat to power
• thermodynamic cycles
• thermal energy storage
• hybrid cycles
• working fluids
• system architectures
• design
• optimization
• thermo-economics
• biomass power plant
• geothermal power plant
• heat transfer
• heat exchangers
• expanders
• system modelling
• organic Rankine cycle
• ejector
• ORC variants
• innovative system architectures
• hybrid systems
• prototypes
• polygeneration systems