Message from the Editor
Dear Colleague,
Climate change has put energy and power generation in the news and in the forefront of everyone’s thinking. The only real consensus is that the future will involve a broad mix of technologies, with any greenhouse effect weighing equally, with, or even out-weighing, the short-run economics.
While engineers may despise the glib assertions of politicians, the truth about the real potential of any particular technology is quite difficult to establish. There is, therefore, a need for a journal in which the very disparate sciences involved are brought together in an easily digested format, so that the professional engineer in the energy business can make his own judgement without having to scour the literature.
The Journal of Power and Energy, Part A of the Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, is dedicated to publishing papers of high scientific quality on all aspects of the technology of energy conversion systems. Papers reviewing specific systems from a strategic and economic standpoint are particularly welcome, as are short comments or letters debating previously published work.
We hope that you will consider publishing such papers with us.
The Journal is advised by an international Editorial Board of experts, reflecting the world-wide scope of past and current contributions, and providing local information on energy developments.
Professor Chris Lawn – Queen Mary, University of London
Editor, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part A: Journal of Power and Energy
Professor Lawn is currently based at Queen Mary, University of London, where he is Professor of Thermo-fluids Engineering.
His field of research covers combustion in gas turbines and furnaces. It involves experimental, theoretical and computational studies of turbulent combustion processes in practical equipment, with particular emphasis on lean premixed combustion in gas turbines. He has managed research in the power industry for 30 years.
He is a former Chairman of the British Section of the Combustion Institute.
In 2007, Chris took over from Mr Colin Scrivener as Editor of the Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part A: Journal of Power and Energy.