Energy Technology 2023 / The Minerals, Metals & Materials Series (PDF)

. Clean energy technologies, such as biomass, solar, wind, geothermal, nuclear including SMRs, hydrogen, etc.

. Renewable energy resources to reduce the consumption of traditional fossil fuels

. Emerging technologies for renewable energy harvesting, conversion, and storage

. New concepts or devices for energy generation, conversion, and distribution

. Waste heat recovery and other industrial energy efficient technologies

. Energy education and energy regulation

. Scale-up, stability, and life-cycle analysis of energy technologies and improvement of existing energy-intensive processes

. Theory and simulation in energy harvesting, conversion, and storage

. Design, operation, and optimization of processes for energy generation (e.g., carbon capture) and conversion of energy carriers

. Energy efficiency improvement in process engineering (e.g., for biomass conversion and improved combustion) and electrical engineering (e.g., for power conversion and developing smart grids)

. Thermo-electric/electrolysis/photo-electrolysis/fundamentals of PV

. Emission control, CO2 capture, and conversion

. Carbon sequestration techniques

. CO2 and other greenhouse gas reduction metallurgy in ferrous (iron & steel making and forming), non-ferrous and reactive metals including critical rare-earth metals

. Sustainability and life cycle assessment of energy systems

. Thermodynamics and modelling for sustainable metallurgical processes

. 'Smart cool materials' for urban heat island mitigation (such as cool roof infrared reflecting material, and low-temperature heat absorbers for use in air conditioner condensers - like 'endothermic materials')

. Methodologies for reducing the cost of energy materials production

. Circular economy and developing resource efficiency model for cutting down the transport from remote places

. Materials extraction and processing steps for enhancing energy efficiencies in batteries, supercapacitors, and energy efficient cells

. Foundationalindustry (metals-alloys, chemicals, refractories, cement) and energy economy and role of mineral extraction