Science for Energy and Environment (SEE) is announcing a Special Issue together with the 8th International Conference on Environmental Sciences and Renewable Energy (ESRE 2026), which is a global event taking place in Milan, Italy, from July 3–5. It will bring together researchers, practitioners, and professionals from the industry, academia and government to discourse on research and development, industrial practice in the field of Environmental and Renewable Energy fundamentals and applications.

The Special Issue will select papers from ESRE 2026, topics including:

1. Resources and Environmental Engineering

• (1) water resources management and water pollution control, including the abatement of toxic pollutants
• (2) atmospheric science and air pollution control
• (3) solid waste pollution control and resource utilization

2. Clean and Renewable Energy, with a special focus on Concentrated Solar Technologies

For more details, please visit https://www.esre.org/index.html.

Academic Editors:

Prof. Jan Baeyens
Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China; KU Leuven, Belgium
Prof. Gilles Flamant
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris, France
Prof. Valentina Busini 
Milan Polytechnic University, Polimi, Milan

Submission Guideline:

Author submission guidelines can be found at: https://www.sciltp.com/journals/see/instructionforauthors.

When submitting your manuscript via the online submission portal: https://sciflux.org/authors/submissions/add-submissions?journalCode=1909189141318164482, please select the relevant Special Issue title.

All manuscripts will undergo peer review in accordance with the journal’s established policies and procedures. Final acceptance will be based on the peer-review reports and the evaluation of the Academic Editors and the Editor-in-Chief. Decisions will be made by the Editor-in-Chief or Academic Editors who have no conflicts of interest with any of the authors.

Published Papers:

Article
Biomass Slow Pyrolysis Produces Stable Gaseous, Liquid and Solid Bio-Energy Carriers
Yitong Jiang, Debo Zhang, Xianfeng Fan, Tianwei Tan, Raf Dewil, Nick Sweygers, Huili Zhang

Article
Methanol from Catalytic Conversion of Biogas-Based Syngas (CO, H2)
Yitong Jiang, Jin Zhang, Huili Zhang, Jan Baeyens

Article
Spatiotemporal Evolution and Expansion Potential of the Reaction Zone in a Solar-Driven Biomass Pyrolysis Reactor Packed with SiC Foam
Yang Liu, Ruming Pan, Renaud Ansart, Gérald Debenest