- The papers should report original, previously unpublished findings in one of the topics listed below. Review-type papers are not accepted. All papers will be reviewed under the direction of the International Scientific Committee.
- NEW: Authors are also encourage to prepare a PDF file with some presentation slides to provide a more synthetized and graphical explanation of the research presented. This file can be submited along with the full paper or later, when submitting the revised version.
- NEW: During the time of the conference (14 September - 5 October 2020), all accepted papers and presentations will be available on Sciforum, allowing the audience to read, comment and discuss your work.
- After the conference, all accepted papers will be published within a dedicated issue of the MDPI journal Proceedings. Once published, the dedicated volume will be sent to the Conference Proceedings Citation Index for evaluation and, if accepted, it will be included in the Web of Science Core Collection.
- In addition, a Panel of Evaluators, acting upon suggestions by the Session Chairs, will select papers with archival value, i.e., those that contribute significantly to the state of the art and report final results of relevant research. These archival papers will be further reviewed for publication on a Special Issue of Energies (Impact Factor 2.702) dedicated to the WEF.
- Since one of the goals of WEF is to promote direct communication between researchers, perspective authors--especially young researchers--are welcome to submit papers that report work in progress without significant contribution to the state of the art: these will be treated as conference papers, and will receive less stringent review.
- Authors are urged to offer suggestion on classification of their papers as "archival" or "conference", when submitting them.
Submission process starts with the submission of an abstract in English, between 1500-2500 characters long. Such an abstract should summarize the entire paper; it is the only information for acceptance that will be examined by the Scientific Committee. It is therefore of the utmost importance for the Abstract to allow the reviewers to make an intelligent decision about its acceptance.
Abstract template and typical composition:
- Motivation for the paper
- Objectives
- What was done
- How it was done and validated
- Major results
- Conclusions
In writing the abstract, be quantitative, write it clearly and in good English, and do not exceed the imposed 1500-2500 characters length limit.
Abstracts can only be submitted online, and the accepted abstracts will be available online on Sciforum.net during and after the conference.
Improve your chances of success! Use the experience of previous Authors to gain some insight on successful submissions: before writing an Abstract, thoroughly review the papers that have already been published in Energies and in its special issues. This investment of your time will not only improve the quality of your manuscript, but also promote your awareness of the available information that exist in the Energies knowledge base. Please use the online databases for your literature review:Each paper to be published in the online Journal Proceedings and in the dedicated Special Issue of Energies must be presented at the Conference by one of the authors (presenting author). Please notice that papers can be presented only by its authors. Papers not presented will not be published in the online Proceedings or elsewhere, no matter what the reason for not presenting them is. Each participant registered as a “presenting author” will be obliged to present his/her paper orally at the Conference. Upon submitting an Abstract, Authors are encouraged to specify which type of contribution they are about to submit:
- Archival Paper (published in the online Proceedings, may be selected for the dedicated Special Issue of Energies);
- Conference Paper (published in the online Proceedings)
The papers with archival value (archival papers), meaning those that contribute significantly to the state of the art and report final results of research, with proper literature review, will be thoroughly reviewed and may be selected for publication consideration in the conference Special Issue (SI). The decision about the selection of the papers for the SI will be made by a Panel of Evaluators acting upon direct suggestion by the Session Chairmen. Any paper selected for the SI will be considered as a “new submission” and it will go through the customary review process enacted at Energies (regardless of the previous reviews obtained for acceptance at the WEF).
Conference participants will be granted a 20% discount on the publication fees of selected papers for the Energies Special Issue. Please note that no other institutional discounts will be applicable, except from reviewers’ discount vouchers.
To download the manuscript template for all accepted abstracts please click here.
NEW: Presentation Slides (Optional)
Authors are encouraged to prepare a presentation in PowerPoint (or similar) to be displayed online along with the manuscript. Slides can be prepared the same way as for any traditional conference. They should be converted to PDF format before submission.
Potential Conflicts of Interest
All authors must disclose all relationships or interests that could inappropriately influence or bias their work. This should be conveyed in a separate "Conflict of Interest" statement preceding the "Acknowledgments" and "References" sections at the end of the manuscript. If there is no conflict, please state "The authors declare no conflict of interest." Financial support for the study must be fully disclosed under "Acknowledgments" section.
Copyright
MDPI, the owner of the Sciforum.net platform, is an open access publisher. We believe that authors should retain the copyright to their scholarly works. Hence, by submitting a Conference Paper to this conference, you retain the copyright of your paper, but you grant MDPI the non-exclusive right to publish this paper online on the Sciforum.net platform. This means you can easily submit your paper to any scientific journal at a later stage and transfer the copyright to its publisher (if required by that publisher).
- Abstract Submission Deadline: 30 April 2020
- Abstract Acceptance: 5 May 2020
- Full Paper Submission: 30 June 2020
- Reviews to Authors: 28 July 2020
- Final Paper Submission: 28 August 2020
- Energy Fundamentals
- Thermodynamics
- Energy quality
- Equilibrium vs. Non-equilibrium processes
- Primary Energy Sources
- Fossil: Coal, Gas, Nuclear, Oil
- Renewable: Geothermal, Hydraulic, Ocean, Solar Thermal, Solar Photovoltaic, Solar High-T, Wind
- Secondary Energy Sources and Energy Carriers
- Biomass and Biofuels
- Hydrogen
- Liquefied Natural Gas
- Microwave Energy conversion
- Waste-derived fuels
- Fuels for aerospace applications
- Intermediate and Final Energy Use
- Energy storage: methods and materials
- Distributed generation
- Energy and Buildings
- Power Transmission & Supply
- Energy Infrastructure
- Energy Conversion Systems
- Combustion: Conventional and Advanced
- Thermal Engines
- Boilers
- Heat Exchangers
- Electric-, Hybrid- and Hydrogen Vehicles
- Power Plants
- Co- and Trigeneration
- Domestic and Industrial Applications
- Aeronautical and Aerospace Energy Systems
- Energy Policy
- Energy Efficiency
- Energy conversion and management
- Environmental Effects
- Energy and Environmental Indicators
- Sustainable Energy Systems
- Resilient Systems
- Exergy
- Exergy Analysis
- Thermo-Economics
- Energy Research and Development
- Energy Transition