Heat and mass transfer advances for energy conservation and pollution control in a renewable and sustainable energy transition

This Virtual Special Issue includes six peer-reviewed papers, which were selected from the plenary lectures, keynote lectures and conference papers at the 5th International Workshop on Heat Transfer Advances for Energy Conservation and Pollution Control (IWHT2019) in Novosibirsk, Russia on August 13–16, 2019. The topics of these papers mainly focus on the heat and mass transfer in energy, power and industrial process systems, including heat exchanger used for floating liquefied natural gas, methane hydrate reservoir, supercritical carbon dioxide Brayton cycle, proton exchange membrane fuel cell, and distillation columns with structured packing. The machine learning methods used for nanofluid research in renewable and sustainable energy systems were also discussed. The studies in this special issue will inform the development of energy conservation and pollution control technologies, which is the purpose of IWHT, and will also support the global decarbonisation of heat and mass transfer systems.