Applied thermal engineering solutions through process integration, modelling and optimisation

This special issue of Applied Thermal Engineering contains thirteen selected contributions that were originally presented in the 17th Conference “Process Integration, Modelling and Optimisation for Energy Saving and Pollution Reduction – PRES 2014”. The PRES conference offers a unique and prestigious stage for applied thermal engineering innovations achieved through ingenious process integration and holistic design approaches. The long collaboration between the PRES conference and the Applied Thermal Engineering Journal is epitomised by this selection of high quality articles covering a wide variety of topics ranging from complex thermal network analysis and optimisation, to operations and control of thermal processes, innovative thermal equipment design through efficient computational tools, and finally to mathematical models for thermal systems.