EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Professor Adam Smoliński
Central Mining Institute (Główny Instytut Górnictwa), Plac Gwarków 1, 40-166 Katowice, Poland
Website | E-Mail: asmolinski@gig.eu
ORCID:0000-0002-4901-7546
Research Topics: coal and biomass gasification/co-gasification, combustion/co-combustion, cogeneration, renewable energy, hydrogen technologies, sustainable energy systems, environmental impact of industrial systems, energy storage, carbon dioxide capture, storage and chemical utilization (CCS, CCU), advanced methods of data mining (chemometrics)
DEPUTY EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Professor Ronghou Liu
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai, 200240, China
Website | E-Mail: liurhou@sjtu.edu.cn
ORCID:0000-0001-9934-9824
Research Topics: biomass energy engineering, energy/ecology integrated system
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Dr. Rafał Gieleciak
Natural Resources Canada, CanmetENERGY, Canada
Website | E-Mail:Rafal.Gieleciak@canada.ca
ORCID:0000-0002-5409-3498
Research Topics: natural gas, gas conversion, bitumen and coal beyond combustion, oil sands, alternative and renewable fuels, advanced characterization, machine learning, petroinformatics
Professor Natalia Howaniec
Central Mining Institute (Główny Instytut Górnictwa), Plac Gwarków 1, 40-166 Katowice, Poland
Website | E-Mail:nhowaniec@gig.eu
ORCID:0000-0003-4625-8464
Research Topics: adsorption, environmental engineering, porous materials, renewable energy and environmental protection, gasification
Professor Shu-San Hsiau
National Central University, No. 300, Zhongda Rd., Zhongli District, Taoyuan City 32001, Taiwan
Website | E-Mail:sshsiau@cc.ncu.edu.tw
ORCID:0000-0002-2077-0120
Research Topics: clean coal technology, biomass (pyrolysis, gasification), energy technology, thermal-fluids, powder technology, hot-gas cleanup, debris flow and avalanche
Dr. Prabu Vairakannu
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Department of Chemical Engineering, Surjyamukhi Road, North, Amingaon, Guwahati, Assam 781039, India
Website | E-Mail:v.prabu@iitg.ac.in
Research Topics: clean energy production, pyrolysis, combustion, gasification and liquefaction technologies, energy and exergy analysis, carbon sequestration
Dr. Le Zhang
Biomass Energy Engineering Research Centre, Department of Resources and Environment, School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), 800 Dongchuan Road, Minhang District, Shanghai 200240
Website | E-Mail:zhle@sjtu.edu.cn
ORCID:0000-0002-9103-3750
Research Topics: biomass energy engineering, waste-to-resources, environmental biotechnology, bioconversion and thermochemical conversion
EDITORIAL BOARD
Professor Alberto Abánades
Technical University of Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
Website | E-Mail:abanades@etsii.upm.es
ORCID:0000-0003-0179-5987
Research Topics: thermal systems, concentrated solar technology, hydrogen production, low-carbon technologies, transmutation of nuclear wastes
Professor Derek Apel
University of Alberta, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 6-233 Donadeo
Innovation Centre For Engineering, 9211-116 St, Edmonton AB, 6G 2H5, Canada
Website | E-Mail:dapel@ualberta.ca
ORCID:0000-0002-5402-7036"
Research Topics: geomechanical mine design for underground diamond mines, rockburst, long term prediction methods, machine learning methods, ground improvement techniques
Professor Michal Cehlár
Technical University of Košice, Faculty of Mining, Ecology, Process Control and Geotechnologies, Letná 9, 04001 Košice, Slovakia
Website | E-Mail: michal.cehlar@tuke.sk
ORCID:0000-0001-9670-6195
Research Topics: mining, raw materials, deposit, evaluation, surface mining, underground mining, technology, economy
Professor Stanisław Chałupnik
Central Mining Institute (Główny Instytut Górnictwa), Plac Gwarków 1, 40-166 Katowice, Poland
Website | E-Mail: schalupnik@gig.eu
ORCID:0000-0002-2792-4954
Research Topics: natural radioactivity, liquid scintillation spectrometry, radium, radon and radon decay products, environmental radioactivity, radioactivity in the mining industry, water treatment, radium removal
Professor Calin-Cristian Cormos
Babes-Bolyai University, StradaMihailKogălniceanu 1, Cluj-Napoca 400000, Romania
Website | E-Mail:cormos@chem.ubbcluj.ro
ORCID:0000-0003-1215-1167
Research Topics: chemical engineering, chemical reaction engineering, process design and integration, computer aided process engineering (CAPE), energy conversion processes, gasification, carbon capture and storage (CCS), clean coal technologies, renewable energy sources, hydrogen production, environmental evaluations of energy conversion processes, life cycle analysis (LCA)
Professor Hevina Dashwood
Brock University, 1812 Sir Isaac Brock Way, St. Catharines, ON, L2S 3A1 Canada
Website | E-Mail:hdashwood@brocku.ca
Research Topics: private global governance, global norms dissemination, natural resource governance, corporate social responsibility, international development, Canadian foreign policy
Professor Antonio De Leon Rodriguez
Institute for Scientific and Technological Research of San Luis Potosi, Camino a la Presa San José
2055. Lomas 4 sección, 78216 San Luis Potosí, Bolivia
Website | E-Mail:aleonr@ipicyt.edu.mx
ORCID:0000-0003-3347-3499
Research Topics: hydrogen energy, biomass, biofuels, bioenergy, bioreactors
Professor Józef Dubiński
Central Mining Institute (Główny Instytut Górnictwa), Plac Gwarków 1, 40-166 Katowice, Poland
Website | E-Mail:jdubinski@gig.eu
ORCID:0000-0002-8763-2961
Research Topics: seismic, applied geophysics, gasification, coal, seismic tomography, engineering seismology
Professor Sebnem Duzgun
Colorado School of Mines, 1500 Illinois St, Golden, CO 80401, United States
Website | E-Mail:duzgun@mines.edu
ORCID:0000-0001-7013-9241
Research Topics: VR and Gaming for Earth Sciences, Uncertainty Analysis and Risk Assessment for Rock Slopes, Mine Environmental Monitoring, Interdisciplinary Research Profile, Infrastructure Resilience
Professor Roman Dychkovskiy
National Mining University of Ukraine, DmytraYavornytskoho Avenue, 19, Dnipro, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine
Website | E-Mail:dichre@gmail.com
ORCID:0000-0002-3143-8940
Research Topics: underground coal gasification, coal, mine working, stress-strain
Dr. András A Kállay
University of Miskolc, Institute of Energy and Quality Affairs, Miskolc, 3515 Hungary
Website | E-Mail:tuzaak@uni-miskolc.hu
ORCID:0000-0003-0489-9722
Research Topics: multi-step gasification, pyrolysis, RDF, coal, methanol synthesis, automatisation for high temperature and pressure applications
Assoc. Professor Alicja Krzemień
Central Mining Institute (Główny Instytut Górnictwa), Plac Gwarków 1, 40-166 Katowice, Poland
Website | E-Mail:akrzemien@gig.eu
ORCID:0000-0002-6279-3275
Research Topics: mining engineering, risk assessment, accident analysis, forecasting, environmental risk assessment, coal mining, underground coal gasification, industrial safety, health risk assessment, probabilistic risk analysis, process safety, occupational health and safety
Professor Yueh-Heng Li
National Cheng Kung University, Tainan City, Taiwan
Website | E-Mail:yuehheng.li@gmail.com
ORCID:0000-0001-9129-2747
Research Topics: combustion technology, electric propulsion, small-scale power system
Professor Linming Dou
China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, China
Website | E-Mail:lmdou@cumt.edu.cn
Research Topics: numerical modeling, energy, mining, geotechnical engineering, geotechnics
rock mechanics, soil mechanics, mineral exploration, slope stability, engineering geology, geomechanics, numerical modeling in geotechnical engineering, tunneling, coal mining, coal, rock engineering, geological engineering, mine planning, geotechnology, exploitation
Professor Bogusław Michalik
Central Mining Institute (Główny Instytut Górnictwa), Plac Gwarków 1, 40-166 Katowice, Poland
Website | E-Mail:bmichalik@gig.eu
ORCID:0000-0002-1083-4856
Research Topics: radiation protection, environmental radioactivity, radiation monitoring, natural radionuclides, NORM & TENORM, human exposure to natural and artificial radioactivity, radioecology, radiation risk to biota
Professor Devi Prasad Mishra
Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Department of Mining Engineering, 826004 Dhanbad, India
Website | E-Mail:dpmishra@iitism.ac.in
ORCID:0000-0002-0730-3894
Research Topics: mine ventilation and environment, mine fire, mine explosion, methane drainage, CBM, mining technology, stowing/backfilling with fly ash/pond ash
Professor Grzegorz Mutke
Central Mining Institute (Główny Instytut Górnictwa), Plac Gwarków 1, 40-166 Katowice, Poland
Website | E-Mail:gmutke@gig.eu
ORCID:0000-0001-8181-0758
Research Topics: mining geophysics, induced seismicity, rockbursts hazard in mines, seismic monitoring in mines, seismic intensity scales, characteristics of mining seismic events within the near-wave field, vibration monitoring and their influence on buildings
Professor Stanisław Nagy
AGH University of Science and Technology, AlejaAdamaMickiewicza 30, 30-059 Kraków, Poland
Website | E-Mail:nagy@agh.edu.pl
ORCID:0000-0001-9777-2258
Research Topics: reservoir engineering, gas, petroleum exploration, numerical modeling, engineering thermodynamics, numerical simulation, applied thermodynamics, enhanced oil recovery, modeling and simulation. renewable energy
Dr. Filomena Pinto
National Laboratory for Energy and Geology (LNEG), Estrada da Portela, Bairro do Zambujal,
Apartado 7586, Alfragide 2610-999 Amadora, Portugal
Website | E-Mail:filomena.pinto@lneg.pt
ORCID:0000-0002-1014-568X
Research Topics: biogas, pyrolysis, gasification, clean energy, biomass, energy, catalysis, biofuels, energy chemical engineering, environmental science, chemistry engineering, agricultural and biological sciences, materials science, physics and astronomy, business, management and accounting, medicine, social sciences, immunology and microbiology
Professor Pedro Riesgo
University of Oviedo, Calle San Francisco, 3, 33003 Oviedo, Asturias, Spain
Website | E-Mail:priesgo@uniovi.es
ORCID:0000-0001-6504-0378
Research Topics: mining, coal, investment analysis, mineral resources and reserves, raw materials, environmental management, safety
Professor Czesława Rosik-Dulewska
University of Opole, plac Kopernika 11A, 45-040 Opole, Poland
Website | E-Mail:czeslawa.rosik-dulewska@ipis.zabrze.pl
ORCID:0000-0003-2698-5437
Research Topics: protection of Earth’s surface (technologies of waste management, recovery of unconventional energy carriers, sorption of organic contaminations on waste organic and mineral sorbents, transformations of organochlorine compounds)
Dr. Christos Roumpos
Public Power Corporation of Greece, Athens, Greece; National Technical University of Athens,
School of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering, Zografou Campus 9, Iroon Polytechniou str
15780 Zografou, Greece
Website | E-Mail:C.Roumpos@dei.com.gr
ORCID:0000-0001-9394-8041
Research Topics: mine planning and design, mining and environmental sustainability, mineral and energy economics, operations management, stochastic optimization, simulation, mineral exploration, geostatistics
Professor Božidar Šarler
University of Nova Gorica, Vipavska 13, Rožna Dolina, SI-5000 Nova Gorica, Slovenia
Website | E-Mail:bozidar.sarler@ung.si
ORCID:0000-0003-0618-6873
Research Topics: CFD simulation, computational fluid dynamics, fluid mechanics, computational fluid mechanics, engineering, applied and computational mathematics, engineering thermodynamics, materials, numerical modeling, digital signal processing; signal, image and video processing
Dr. Osvalda Senneca
Institute for Research on Combustion (IRC), Università "Federico II", Piazzale Vincenzo Tecchio, 80 -
80125 Napoli, Italy
Website | E-Mail:senneca@irc.cnr.it
ORCID:0000-0002-8794-9416
Research Topics: reactor design concepts and modeling of pyrolysis, combustion, gasification;
clean coal technologies; oxy-combustion; chemical looping; kinetics of pyrolysis, combustion, gasification; thermal annealing; relation between chemico-physical properties and reactivity of solid fuels; thermal degradation of biomass and wastes; fragmentation of solid fuels; beneficiation of ashes;
Thermochemistry of carbon oxidation
Professor Krzysztof Stańczyk
Central Mining Institute (Główny Instytut Górnictwa), Plac Gwarków 1, 40-166 Katowice, Poland
Website | E-Mail:kstanczyk@gig.eu
ORCID:0000-0001-8273-7409
Research Topics: clean coal technologies, coal gasification and liquefaction, underground coal gasification, air protection, energy management
Professor Wojciech Stanek
Silesian University of Technology, Department of Thermal Engineering, Akademicka 2A, 44-100
Gliwice, Poland
Website | E-Mail:wojciech.stanek@polsl.pl
ORCID:0000-0001-7844-3424
Research Topics: energy management, thermodynamics, exergy analysis, exergo-ecology, mathematical modelling
Professor Andrzej Strugała
AGH University of Science and Technology, aleja Adama Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Kraków, Poland
Website | E-Mail:andrzej.strugala@agh.edu.pl
ORCID:0000-0003-2690-9282
Research Topics: chemical engineering, coal and biomass gasification/co-gasification, combustion/co-combustion, cogeneration, renewable energy, hydrogen technologies
Assoc. Professor Ana Suárez
University of Oviedo, Calle San Francisco, 3, 33003 Oviedo, Asturias, Spain
Website | E-Mail:suarezana@uniovi.es
ORCID:0000-0003-4257-9367
Research Topics: occupational health and safety, ergonomics, risk management, risk assessment, industrial safety, resource management, resource valuation
Dr. Venkata Suresh Patnaikuni
National Institute of Technology, Warangal, Department of Chemical Engineering, NIT Campus, Fathimanagar, Telangana 506004, India
Website | E-Mail:pvsuresh@nitw.ac.in
ORCID:0000-0003-0153-2036
Research Topics: fuel cells, chemical looping combustion - CO2 capture technology, computational fluid dynamics, flow batteries, modelling and simulation
Professor Fidelis Suorineni
Nazarbayev University, School of Mining and Geosciences, 6 block, 53 Kabanbay Batyr Ave, 010000
Nur-Sultan city, Kazakhstan
Website | E-Mail:fidelis.suorineni@nu.edu.kz
ORCID:0000-0002-7356-5446
Research Topics: mining systems, mining technology (virtual reality, big data, space technologies in mining, etc), geotechnical engineering, material testing, rockmass characterization, ground support, rockbursts and seismicity, numerical modelling, empirical design
Professor Antoni Tajduś
AGH University of Science and Technology, aleja Adama Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Kraków, Poland
Website | E-Mail:tajdus@agh.edu.pl
ORCID:0000-0002-9159-0549
Research Topics: geoengineering, geomechanics
Dr. Michele Vascellari
TU Bergakademie, Akademiestraße 6, 09599 Freiberg, Germany
Website | E-Mail:Michele.Vascellari@vtc.tu-freiberg.de
ORCID:0000-0003-0933-902X
Research Topics: CFD simulation, coal, combustion, gasification, computational fluid mechanics, fluid mechanics, engineering thermodynamics, computational fluid dynamics, numerical simulation, numerical modelling, modelling and simulation, thermal engineering, mechanical engineering
Dr. Katarzyna Widera
Opole University of Technology, Faculty of Economics and Management, Prószkowska 76, 45-758 Opole, Poland
Website | E-Mail:k.widera@po.edu.pl
ORCID:0000-0003-0651-8049
Research Topics: statistics, econometrics, environmental economics, time series, forecasting, mathematical modelling, prediction
Professor Małgorzata Wysocka
Central Mining Institute (Główny Instytut Górnictwa), Plac Gwarków 1, 40-166 Katowice, Poland
Website | E-Mail:mwysocka@gig.eu
ORCID:0000-0002-1538-1294
Research Topics: natural radioactivity, radioactive contamination, radiation hazards, radiometry, radon, geology, radiation protection, radioecology, sustainability of post mining sites
Professor Katarzyna Zarębska
AGH University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Energy and Fuels, Al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059, Kraków, Poland
Website | E-Mail:katarzyna.zarebska@agh.edu.pl
ORCID:0000-0002-7305-9762
Research Topics: CCUS, Sorption, adsorbents, CO2, CH4,hydrogen, geopolymers, fly ash, monoliths, LCA, waste management, adsorption storage
HONORARY EDITOR-IN-CHIEF AND JOURNAL FOUNDER
Professor Adam Lipowczan
Central Mining Institute (Główny Instytut Górnictwa), Plac Gwarków 1, 40-166 Katowice, PolandWebsite | E-Mail:alipowczan@gig.eu
Research Topics: sensors, metrology, measurement, sensor development, geographic information system, maps, hearing loss, dissemination