LCT: Fully Open Access
International Journal of Low-Carbon Technologies is committed to facilitating the widest possible dissemination of high-quality research. To further this objective, LCT is now a fully open access, online only journal.

LCT’s open access publishing model will maximise dissemination of research to the widest possible audience. It is no longer necessary to hold a subscription in order to read LCT content online.

All new submissions to International Journal of Low-Carbon Technologies that are accepted for publication in the journal will be published exclusively on an open access basis.
Journal Overview
International Journal of Low-Carbon Technologies is concerned with the application of technology to the challenges created by climate change. All areas of the field are considered with sections focusing on:
Renewable energy technologies
Innovative and emerging new technologies (all areas)
Solar collector technologies
Solar thermal power and solar desalination
PV cells and system technologies (BIPV and new technologies)
Wind power technology
Biomass and biogas technologies
Geothermal energy
Wave and tidal power
Ambient energy utilization
CO2 reduction and low carbon technologies
Heat pumps and CHP systems
Hydrogen generation and storage systems
Fuel cells
Waste and heat management
Low carbon technologies and systems
Process optimization with carbon reduction in industry
Energy and life cycle analysis
Sustainable energy technologies in the built environment
Solar heating and cooling for the building environment
Low and zero energy houses and buildings
Moisture control in buildings
Advanced energy storage technologies
Integration of renewable energy systems in buildings
HVAC system and natural ventilation
Distributed energy systems and buildings
Renewable energy management and environmental impact
Renewable energy policies and economics
Carbon trading, CDM
Sustainability impact assessments and tools
Sustainable development criteria for use in environmental assessment
Simulation, optimization and analysis tools and professional software
Integrated approaches
It is our aim that International Journal of Low-Carbon Technologies will provide a forum for the cross-fertilization of ideas across all areas of the field. Papers should be written in such a way that the technologies and results they report on are accessible to researchers working in other areas of the field. Authors should also describe the actual or potential applications of their work. The journal publishes research articles, technical notes, review papers, book reviews and focus issues.

Editor-In-Chief
Saffa B. Riffat, University of Nottingham, UK
Editorial Office
Editorial Office, UK
Publisher
Nikul Patel, UK
Editorial and Board Members
Mahmoud Afshar, Petroleum University of Technology, Iran
Khaled Al-Sallal, UAE University, UAE
Leon Begrambekov, Moscow Engineering and Physics Institute (State University), Russia
Jie Chen, National Institute of Clean-and-Low-Carbon Energy, Beijing, China
Kuan Chen, University of Utah, USA
David Cheong Kok Wai, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Jo Darkwa, University of Nottingham, China
Ibrahim Dincer, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT), Canada
Peter Dobson, University of Oxford, UK
Spencer Dutton, Laurence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Ursula Eicker, Stuttgart University of Applied Science and Technology, Germany
Guohui Gan, University of Nottingham, UK
Mark Gillott, University of Nottingham, UK
Ala Hasan, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland
Neil Hewitt, University of Ulster, UK
Yunho Hwang, University of Maryland, USA
Sanjeev Jain, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India
Ji Jie, University of Science and Technology of China
Muhyiddine Jradi, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
Soteris Kalogirou, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus
Tassos Karayiannis, Brunel University, UK
Kevin Kendall, University of Birmingham, UK
Renato Lazzarin, University of Padova, Italy
Xianguo Li, University of Waterloo, Canada
Peter Lund, Aalto University, Finland
M P Maiya, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India
Srinivasa Murthy, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
Armando Oliveira, University of Porto, Portugal
Kok Seng Ong, Monash University Sunway Campus, Malaysia
Diego Palma Rojas, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Chile
David Reay, Heriot-Watt University, UK
K Srinivas Reddy, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India
M Santamouris, University of Athens, Greece
Li Shao, Reading University, UK
Sheng-qiang Shen, Dalian University of Technology, China
Demos Tsahalis, Learning Foundation in Mechatronics (LFME), Greece
Leonard Vasiliev, Luikov Heat & Mass Transfer Institute, Belarus
Hongxing Yang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
Lizhi Zhang, South China University of Technology, China