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Special Issue: “Smart Sensing Approaches for Low Carbon, Energy-efficient ManufacturingProcesses”

Low-carbon energy saving has become one of the most important economic policies in countries allover the world. Coupled with the global trend towards sustainable development and awareness of changes
in the living environment, the United Nations is committed to promoting "2050 Net Zero Emissions" andhopes to achieve it to solve the current crisis of climate change. To achieve the "carbon-free goal", eachcountry has started to formulate energy and carbon reduction policies. For this reason, this issue focuseson low-carbon energy-saving manufacturing process technology, especially for actively developing
forward-looking technologies in the precision machinery, aerospace, and semiconductor industries. The
demand for energy is increasing, so how to develop related energy-saving technologies in themanufacturing process has become the main point of enterprises.
Energy consumption is fairly distributed among transportation, industries, and other sectors. The
transportation sector consumes 30% of the total international energy, while manufacturing industries areaccountable for one-third of the global energy consumption. It is important to note that this energy ismostly supplied by fossil fuels, which generate carbon dioxide, contributing to 36% of net global carbon
emissions produced by the manufacturing industries. The demand for products is increasing due topopulation growth, leading to a nearly doubled need for energy in the past 30 years.
Low-carbon technologies primarily encompass carbon reduction and decarbonization technologies.
Through the regulation of carbon emissions, low-carbon technologies employing sensing schemes work
to decrease the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere to a relatively stable level. This
contributes to mitigating or eradicating the impact of global climate change, preserving ecosystem
equilibrium, achieving harmonious coexistence with the natural environment, and fostering economicdevelopment.
Numerous researchers have dedicated significant efforts to developing low-carbon emission
methodologies, and their research findings have profoundly influenced the establishment of the goal ofachieving carbon neutrality by 2050. Motivated by this impetus, innovative low-carbon and energysaving sensing manufacturing processes, such as smart production systems, intelligent sensing control,
smart materials application, and decarbonization analysis, are being proposed not only in engineering but
also as new paradigms in smart science. This special issue encompasses the mathematical and physicaltheories of smart system analysis and optimization in physics and engineering, along with their diverse
applications. Prospective authors are invited to submit original papers to this special issue.

Indicative Topics/Areas
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to⚫ Smart Sensing Methods for Low Carbon Emission and Energy-saving Systems⚫ Intelligent Sensor Networks of IoT for Carbon Emission and Energy⚫ Sensor Designs for Detecting the Carbon Footprint⚫ Smart Sensing Control Systems⚫ Sustainable Materials Development⚫ Inventions/Innovative Methods for Reduction of Energy Consumption and Carbon Emission⚫ Optimization Schemes⚫ Other Low Carbon/Energy-saving Systems, Sensing Methods, and Applications

Prospective contributors are invited to submit their paper to Prof. Wang by email(wcc@mail.nsysu.edu.tw).

ScheduleSubmission Deadline

August 31, 2023

Acceptance Notice

September 30, 2023

Final ManuscriptOctober 31, 2023

Publication Date (Planned)

November 30, 2023

Lead Guest Editor:
Prof. Cheng-Chi Wang (Ph.D.), Department of Mechanical and Electro-Mechanical Engineering(professor), National Sun Yat-sen University, No.70 Lien-hai Road, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Email:wcc@mail.nsysu.edu.tw. wccpipn@gmail.com(Attention)
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