Applied Thermal Engineering towards sustainable development

This Special issue (SI) of Applied Thermal Engineering presents 26 selected contributions from the 16th Conference Process Integration, Modelling and Optimisation for Energy Saving and Pollution Reduction – PRES’13. The PRES conference is one of the leading international venues, which contributes towards Applied Thermal Engineering as an integral part of their scope. The long-term cooperation between the PRES conferences and the Applied Thermal Engineering journal has been a mutually beneficial one. Many high quality research works have been presented. The papers selected in this SI cover important subjects related to: (i) Integrated Applied Thermal Engineering in Process Systems and (ii) Industrial and experimental studies of sustainable thermal engineering.