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Energies

Energies is an open access journal of related scientific research, technology development and policy and management studies. It publishes reviews, regular research papers, and communications. Our aim is to encourage scientists to publish their experimental and theoretical results in as much detail as possible. There is no restriction on the length of the papers. The full experimental details must be provided so that the results can be reproduced.

• Energy Fundamentals
Thermodynamics
Energy forms
Heat
Energy transformation
Mechanical energy
Blue energy
Internal energy
Energy quality
Energy density
Energy flow
• 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
Liquified Natural Gas
Microwave Energy conversion
Waste-derived fuels
• Energy Exploration and Exploitation
• Intermediate and Final Energy Use:
Energetic materials
Energy storage
Power supply
Distributed generation
Energy and Buildings
Power Transmission
Energy Infrastructure
• Energy Conversion Systems
Combustion: Conventional and Advanced
Thermal Engines
Boilers
Heat Exchangers
Electric-, Hybrid- and Hydrogen Vehicles
Alternative Energy Vehicles
Electricity Generation
Power Plants
Co- and Trigeneration
Energy Cascading
Domestic and Industrial Applications
Aeronautical and Aerospace Energy Systems
• Energy Policy
Energy Saving and Efficiency
Energy conversion and management
Environmental Effects
Energy and Environmental Indicators
Sustainable Energy Systems
"Green" energy
• Exergy
• Energetics
Bioenergetics
Chemical Energetics
Energy in Physical Cosmology
• Energy Research and Development

Records in our library from this publisher

Infrastructuring the Circular Economy

2020
Journal Article

The circular economy (CE), and its focus on the cycling and regeneration of resources, necessitates both a reconfiguration of existing infrastructures and the creation of new infrastructures to facilitate these flows. In urban settings, CE is being realized at multiple levels, from within individual organizations to across peri-urban landscapes. While most attention in CE research and practice focuses on organizations, the scale and impact of many such efforts are limited because they fail to account for the diversity of resources, needs, and power structures across cities, consequently missing opportunities for adopting a more effective and inclusive CE. Reconfiguring hard infrastructures is necessary for material resource cycling, but intervening in soft infrastructures is also needed to enable more inclusive decision-making processes to activate these flows. Utilizing participatory action research methods at the intersection of industrial ecology and design, we developed a new framework and a model for considering and allocating the variety of resources that organizations utilize when creating value for themselves, society, and the planet. We use design prototyping methods to synthesize distributed knowledge and co-create hard and soft infrastructures in a multi-level case study focused on urban food producers and farmers markets from the City of Chicago. We discuss generalized lessons for “infrastructuring” the circular economy to bridge niche-level successes with larger system-level changes in cities.
Energies