Journal of Energy Engineering

Special Collection on Renewable Energy Utilization and Energy Conservation in Thermal and Power Systems for China’s Sustainable Energy Future
Guest Editors:
Qun Chen, Yong Min, Hongjie Jia, Zhiguo Qu, Rong Chen, Lei Chen

Contained in this special collection, the authors introduced new concepts, approaches, and/or innovative solutions to address the problems and challenges faced by China’s energy systems that could potentially contribute to China’s sustainable energy future, and the topics included PV, PT and wind power systems, clean combustion, battery, fuel cells, large-scale heat storage, energy conservation of data centre, distributed energy systems and micro grid, and new analysis, design and optimization methods of integrated energy systems.

Papers in this Collection

Thermal Performance Characteristics of Porous Media Receiver Exposed to Concentrated Solar Radiation
Yatao Ren; Hong Qi; Jingwen Shi; Qin Chen
Published online March 11, 2017

Numerical Study on the Optimized Control of CRACs in a Data Center Based on a Fast Temperature-Predicting Model
Mengxuan Song, Ph.D.; Kai Chen, Ph.D.; and Jun Wang, Ph.D.
Published online June 22, 2017

Electrochemical and Transport Characteristics of V(II)/V(III) Redox Couple in a Nonaqueous Deep Eutectic Solvent: Temperature Effect
Qian Xu, Ph.D.; Liyu Qin; Huaneng Su, Ph.D.; Li Xu, Ph.D.; Puiki Leung, Ph.D.; Chunzhen Yang, Ph.D.; and Huaming Li
Published online July 17, 2017

Integrated Heating Load and Storage Control for Curtailed Wind Power Consumption in China’s Power Market
Yulong Yang; Gangui Yan; and Gang Mu
Published online March 25, 2017

Anemometer Positioning Optimization for Flow Field Calculation in Wind Farm
Kai Chen; Xing Zhang; Mengxuan Song; and Zhongyang He
Published online June 14, 2017

Dynamic Processes of Mode Switching in Reversible Solid Oxide Fuel Cells
Yi Zheng; Yu Luo; Yixiang Shi; and Ningsheng Cai
Published online August 28, 2017

Experimental Investigation on the Thermal-Energy Storage Characteristics of the Subcritical Water
Zheng Yang, Ph.D.; Haisheng Chen, Ph.D.; Liang Wang, Ph.D.; Yong Sheng; Lyu Ji; and Ningning Xie, Ph.D.
Published online September 13, 2017

Combustion in a Hybrid Porous Burner Packed with Alumina Pellets and Silicon Carbide Foams with a Gap
H.B. Gao, Ph.D.; X.B. Feng; and Z.G. Qu
Published online May 27, 2017

Modeling and Optimization of Multitype Power Sources Stochastic Unit Commitment Using Interval Number Programming
Yifan Zhou, P.G.: Wei Hu, Ph.D.; Yong Min, Ph.D.; Xialing Xu, P.E.; and Yong Li, P.E.
Published online June 8, 2017

Economic Dispatch of an Integrated Heat-Power Energy Distribution System with a Concentrating Solar Power Energy Hub
Rui Li; Laijun Chen; Bo Zhao; Wei Wei
Published online June 30, 2017

Clean Heating Scheduling Optimization with Wind Power in Northern China
Yiwei Fu; Wei Hu, Ph.D.; Fei Xu, Ph.D.; Chenxin Zhang; and Xiaohai Wang
Published online August 28, 2017

Experimental and Numerical Studies of the Thermal Performance of a Metallic Lattice Structure Filled with Phase-Change Material
Jiajie Zhang; Jixiang Yin; Suxia Ma; Dongquan Du
Published online June 15, 2017

Stochastic Scheduling of Integrated Energy Systems Considering Wind Power and Multienergy Loads Uncertainties
Houhe Chen; Rufeng Zhang; Linquan Bai; Tao Jiang; Guoqing Li; Hongjie Jia; and Xue Li
Published online May 12, 2017

Implications of Gas Infrastructure in Integrated Community Energy Systems
Xiandong Xu, Ph.D.; Kang Li; Xiaodan Yu, Ph.D.; Hongjie Jia; and Yuanjun Guo, Ph.D.
Published online July 26, 2017

Active and Passive Thermal Energy Storage in Combined Heat and Power Plants to Promote Wind Power Accommodation
Yuanhang Dai; Lei Chen; Yong Min; Qun Chen; Yiwei Zhang; Fei Xu; Kang Hu; and Junhong Hao
Published online June 14, 2017

Thermal Storage Characteristics of the Vertical Cylindrical Water Tank
Zheng Yang; Haisheng Chen; Liang Wang; Wen Li; Zhitao Zuo; Yong Sheng; and Chunqing Tan
Published online: September 29, 2017

Power-to-Gas Energy Storage by Reversible Solid Oxide Cell for Distributed Renewable Power Systems
Yu Luo; Yixiang Shi; and Ningsheng Cai
Published online: December 20, 2017

Flow-Rate Optimization and Economic Analysis of Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries in a Load-Shifting Application
Jiahui Fu; Menglian Zheng, Ph.D.; Xinhao Wang; Jie Sun; and Tao Wang
Published online September 23, 2017

Temperature Dynamic Characteristics of Power-Generation Cabin in Antarctic: Case Study for Dome A
Zilong Deng; Ying Zhou; Xiangdong Liu, Ph.D.; Chengbin Zhang; and Yongping Chen
Published online November 29, 2017

Experimental Investigation on a Photovoltaic Thermal Solar System with Linear Fresnel Lens
HongtaoXu; Fariborz Karimi, Ph.D.; Jian Chen; Mo Yang; and Shuai Yu
Published online February 16, 2018