EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Professor Adam Smoliński Central Mining Institute (Główny Instytut Górnictwa), Plac Gwarków 1, 40-166 Katowice, Poland Website | 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 | ORCID:0000-0001-9934-9824 Research Topics: biomass energy engineering, energy/ecology integrated system
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Dr. Oriol Font Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research (IDAEA CSIC), C. JordiGirona, 18-26, 08034 Barcelona, Spain Website | ORCID: 0000-0002-1729-2164 Research Topics: mineralogy, geochemistry, energy engineering, powder X-ray diffraction, environmental geochemistry, gasification, environmental geology, coal, power plants, coal combustion, trace elements, X-ray fluorescence
Dr. Rafał Gieleciak Natural Resources Canada, CanmetENERGY, Canada Website | 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 | 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 | 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
Professor Michael Karmis Virginia Tech, Virginia Center for Coal and Energy Research (VCCER), 133 Randolph Hall, Virginia Tech, 460 Old Turner Street, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA Website | ORCID:0000-0002-7043-4205 Research Topics: sustainable development of mineral and energy resources, rock mechanics, mining systems, energy systems
Assoc. Professor Alicja Krzemień Central Mining Institute (Główny Instytut Górnictwa), Plac Gwarków 1, 40-166 Katowice, Poland Website | 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 Pedro Riesgo University of Oviedo, Calle San Francisco, 3, 33003 Oviedo, Asturias, Spain Website | ORCID:0000-0001-6504-0378 Research Topics: mining, coal, investment analysis, mineral resources and reserves, raw materials, environmental management, safety
Dr. Prabu Vairakannu Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Department of Chemical Engineering, Surjyamukhi Road, North, Amingaon, Guwahati, Assam 781039, India Website | Research Topics: clean energy production, pyrolysis, combustion, gasification and liquefaction technologies, energy and exergy analysis, carbon sequestration
Dr. Venkata Suresh Patnaikuni National Institute of Technology, Warangal, Department of Chemical Engineering, NIT Campus, Fathimanagar, Telangana 506004, India Website | ORCID:0000-0003-0153-2036 Research Topics: fuel cells, chemical looping combustion - CO2 capture technology, computational fluid dynamics, flow batteries, modelling and simulation
EDITORIAL BOARD
Professor Alberto Abánades Technical University of Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain Website | ORCID:0000-0003-0179-5987 Research Topics: thermal systems, concentrated solar technology, hydrogen production, low-carbon technologies, transmutation of nuclear wastes
Dr. Michalis Agraniotis Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Europe GmbH, Schifferstraße 80, 47059 Duisburg, Germany Website | Research Topics: clean energy, mechanical engineering
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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | ORCID:0000-0003-0489-9722 Research Topics: multi-step gasification, pyrolysis, RDF, coal, methanol synthesis, automatisation for high temperature and pressure applications
Professor Yueh-Heng Li National Cheng Kung University, Tainan City, Taiwan Website | ORCID:0000-0001-9129-2747 Research Topics: combustion technology, electric propulsion, small-scale power system
Dr. David Love Golder Associates Africa (Pty) Ltd., Menlyn, 0181 P O Box 6001, Halfway House, 1685, South Africa Website | ORCID:0000-0001-8631-0410 Research Topics: underground coal gasification, geochemistry of arsenic, acid rock drainage risk management, re-purposing of waste materials for environmental protection, mine residues management, alluvial aquifers, use of natural super-materials for water treatment
Professor Linming Dou China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, China Website | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 Czesława Rosik-Dulewska University of Opole, plac Kopernika 11A, 45-040 Opole, Poland Website | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 Richard Snuparek Institute of Geonics AS CR, v.v.i., Studentska 1768, 708 00 Ostrava-Poruba, Czechia Website | Research Topics: rock mechanics, mining, stability and support of underground openings, geotechnical monitoring
Professor Krzysztof Stańczyk Central Mining Institute (Główny Instytut Górnictwa), Plac Gwarków 1, 40-166 Katowice, Poland Website | 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 | 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 | 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 | ORCID:0000-0003-4257-9367 Research Topics: occupational health and safety, ergonomics, risk management, risk assessment, industrial safety, resource management, resource valuation
Professor Fidelis Suorineni Nazarbayev University, School of Mining and Geosciences, 6 block, 53 Kabanbay Batyr Ave, 010000 Nur-Sultan city, Kazakhstan Website | 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 | ORCID:0000-0002-9159-0549 Research Topics: geoengineering, geomechanics
Dr. Michele Vascellari TU Bergakademie, Akademiestraße 6, 09599 Freiberg, Germany Website | 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 | 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 | 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 Valerii N. Zakharov Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninskiy Prospekt, 14, Moscow, 119991, Russia Website | ORCID:0000-0002-5056-3296 Research Topics: mining technologies, geomechanics, geophysics, geodynamic and gas-dynamic processes in rocks
Professor Katarzyna Zarębska AGH University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Energy and Fuels, Al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059, Kraków, Poland Website | 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, Poland Website | Research Topics: sensors, metrology, measurement, sensor development, geographic information system, maps, hearing loss, dissemination