Sustainability Assessment of Energy and Manufacturing Industries

Dear Colleagues,

The sustainability assessment of energy and manufacturing industries is crucial for realizing the sustainable development goals (SDGs) proposed and approved in the 2015 New York meeting of the United Nations. These industries are responsible for over one third of global GHG emissions and the associated global warming and climate change. In this Special Issue, we invite studies that focus on energy and manufacturing industries from product, process, or holistic (regional, national, and global economy-wide) perspectives. Life-cycle-based and cradle-to-gate analyses are welcome as are computational studies with the use of state-of-art environmental impact assessment methods. Moreover, studies that focus on social and economic sustainability will be considered to be within the scope. The methods and application areas include but are not limited to:

• The life-cycle assessment (process, product, and input-output analysis (IOA)) of manufacturing and energy systems;
• The sustainability benchmarking (MCDM, etc.) of manufacturing processes and systems from energy and environmental perspectives;
• Eco-efficiency analyses (DEA, PCA, etc.) of manufacturing industries, processes, and systems;
• Emergy, mid-point and end-point impact assessment;
• Dynamic, agent-based, and discrete-event simulation;
• Material and energy flow analyses;
• Spatiotemporal analyses;
• Machine learning, artificial intelligence applications with time-series energy, and environmental footprint data.

Prof. Dr. Gokhan Egilmez
Guest Editor

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• renewable energy
• manufacturing
• sustainability assessment
• life-cycle assessment
• sustainability analytics