About this Research Topic
Facing the crisis of fossil fuel depletion and environmental degradation, one critical solution is to make much more use of renewable energy sources and technologies, including hydrogen, solar, electrochemical energy storage devices, etc.. The safety, especially thermal safety of renewable energy has aroused the extensive attention both in fundamental studies and practical technologies. Consequently, great efforts have been devoted passionately to revealing thermal failure mechanism, developing theoretical model, designing new materials, and exploring efficient control measures. As the involved fire and explosion processes mainly occur at the development and utilization of renewable energy, the overall thermal risk is intrinsically related to the complex electrochemical-thermo-kinetics. To better understand this problem, this Research Topic aims to collect papers corresponding to the advanced scientific theory and engineering strategies toward renewable energy thermal safety.
The goal of this Research Topic is to address the considerable questions around the thermal safety issues and to seek the universal and efficient approaches to evaluate and alleviate the thermal risk in renewable energy application. The scope of this Research Topic focuses on the thermal safety of renewable energy during production, transportation and storage including the renewable energy itself, related materials and facilities, storage medium, fire and explosion, advanced prevention and suppression technologies and strategies.
This Research Topic welcomes original research, reviews, brief research reports, and opinion articles on topics including, but not limited to, the following:
• Hydrogen safety, including leakage diffusion, spontaneous combustion, jet fire, hydrogen cloud explosion, fire and explosion propagation, etc..
• Lithium-ion battery safety, including thermal stability, thermal runaway and its propagation, fire and explosion, thermal management, retardant/ modified, etc..
• Photovoltaic safety, including power station fire, solar panel thermal stability, battery components combustion, etc..
• Other renewable energy safety, such as biomass, wind.
• Risk assessment for renewable energy.
• Fire and explosion suppression for renewable energy.
The goal of this Research Topic is to address the considerable questions around the thermal safety issues and to seek the universal and efficient approaches to evaluate and alleviate the thermal risk in renewable energy application. The scope of this Research Topic focuses on the thermal safety of renewable energy during production, transportation and storage including the renewable energy itself, related materials and facilities, storage medium, fire and explosion, advanced prevention and suppression technologies and strategies.
This Research Topic welcomes original research, reviews, brief research reports, and opinion articles on topics including, but not limited to, the following:
• Hydrogen safety, including leakage diffusion, spontaneous combustion, jet fire, hydrogen cloud explosion, fire and explosion propagation, etc..
• Lithium-ion battery safety, including thermal stability, thermal runaway and its propagation, fire and explosion, thermal management, retardant/ modified, etc..
• Photovoltaic safety, including power station fire, solar panel thermal stability, battery components combustion, etc..
• Other renewable energy safety, such as biomass, wind.
• Risk assessment for renewable energy.
• Fire and explosion suppression for renewable energy.
Keywords: Thermal Safety, Fire, Explosion, Suppression, Renewable Energy
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