Applied Thermal Engineering
Applied Thermal Engineering (Appl. Therm. Eng.) is a heat transfer and thermal engineering journal published by Elsevier. Its lineage begins with the Journal of Heat Recovery Systems in 1981 and it has carried its present name from volume 16 in 1996. It concentrates on thermal work from component to system, appears in twenty-four volumes a year, and had a 2025 impact factor of 7.5.《应用热能工程》（Applied Thermal Engineering''''，缩写 Appl. Therm. Eng.''）是爱思唯尔出版的传热与热能工程刊物，脉络始于 1981 年的《热回收系统杂志》，1996 年第 16 卷起改用现名。该刊以部件到系统的热工研究为主，现每年二十四卷，二〇二五年影响因子为 7.5。
Scope
The journal's editorial stance is that a paper must address a thermal system that can actually be built: whether it studies a single component or a whole plant, it must show what measurable improvement in efficiency, emissions or cost it delivers. Coverage runs from component design to engineering economics, and concentrates on:本刊的取稿立场是「以可落地的热工系统为对象」：一篇论文不论是研究单个部件还是整套系统，都要说明它在效率、排放或成本上带来了什么可度量的改进。收文覆盖从部件设计到工程经济的完整链条，重点包括：
- Components and devices: heat exchangers and heat transfer enhancement, heat pipes and phase-change devices, heat pumps and refrigeration cycles, and burners and boiler components.部件与装置： 换热器与强化传热、热管与相变装置、热泵与制冷循环、燃烧器与锅炉部件。
- Renewable and clean energy: solar thermal collection and collectors, thermal management of fuel cells and electrolysis, battery thermal management and safety, and geothermal and waste-heat power.可再生与清洁能源： 太阳能热利用与集热器、燃料电池与电解的热管理、电池热管理与安全性、地热与余热发电。
- System design: integrated generation, storage and use in industrial and building energy systems, district heating and cooling, process integration and pinch analysis, and retrofit for efficiency.系统设计： 工业与建筑能源系统的产储用一体化、区域供冷供热、过程集成与夹点分析、系统节能改造。
- Thermal management: cooling of electronic devices, thermal management of data centres and power electronics, and building envelopes and passive cooling.热管理： 电子器件散热与冷却技术、数据中心与功率器件热管理、建筑围护结构与被动式降温。
- Storage and materials: thermal storage materials and phase-change storage, thermochemical storage, and new working fluids and cycles for thermal processes.储能与材料： 储热材料与相变储能、热化学储能、热工过程的新工质与新循环。
- Economic assessment: capital and operating cost analysis of thermal projects, payback calculation for efficiency retrofits, and combined technical-economic and environmental evaluation.经济性评估： 热工项目的投资与运行成本分析、能效改造的回收期测算、技术经济与环境效益的联合评价。
The journal is hybrid and the gold open access article processing charge is 3,540 US dollars. The publisher reports six days to first decision, forty-two days to a decision after review and ninety-five days to acceptance, the first-decision figure including editorial screening本刊为混合出版，金色开放获取的文章处理费为三千五百四十美元；出版方公布投稿至首次决定六天、复审后决定四十二天、投稿至接收九十五天，其中首次决定包含编辑部初筛，录用比例未公布。 no acceptance rate is published.[1]
History
- Predecessors (1981–1995): the lineage begins with the Journal of Heat Recovery Systems in 1981 (volumes 1 to 6), renamed Heat Recovery Systems and CHP in 1987 (volumes 7 to 15)前身刊（1981—1995年）： 本刊脉络始于 1981 年的《热回收系统杂志》（第 1 至 6 卷），1987 年改称《热回收系统与热电联产》（第 7 至 15 卷），两刊在图书馆目录中均有独立的 ISSN 著录。 both titles carry separate ISSN records in library catalogues.[2]
- Present name from 1996: the journal took its present name with volume 16 in 1996, widening its scope from heat recovery to thermal engineering as a whole while continuing the predecessor's volume numbering, which is the basis for treating the two as one lineage.启用现名（1996年）： 1996 年第 16 卷起改用现名《应用热能工程》，范围由余热回收扩展至整个热工领域，卷号与前身刊连续，这也是本刊被视为同一刊脉延续的根据。[3]
- Growth in volume (2022–2025): the journal issued twenty-two volumes in 2024 and twenty-four in 2025, in step with the growth of thermal engineering submissions during the energy transition, with volume numbers now past 280.体量扩张（2022—2025年）： 2024 年本刊出版二十二卷，2025 年增至二十四卷，与能源转型背景下热工研究投稿量的增长同步，卷号已进入第二百八十卷以上。[3]
- Metrics and indexing: the impact factor is 7.5 and the CiteScore 10.9. The journal is indexed in Scopus and the Science Citation Index Expanded but not in MEDLINE, and ranks near the top of the thermodynamics and energy engineering categories.指标与收录： 影响因子 7.5、引用分数 10.9；本刊被 Scopus 与科学引文索引扩展版收录，未收入 MEDLINE，在热力学与能源工程类别中居于前列。[1]
Editors
The journal is led by an editor-in-chief supported by a board divided by field. Long tenure has been a feature of the title: two successive editors each served for more than a decade, which has kept its acceptance standards highly continuous.本刊由一名主编主持，下设按方向分工的编委；创刊主编长期在任是本刊的一个特点，前后两位主编各自的任期都超过十年，使刊物的取稿尺度保持了高度连续性。[4]
- Present editor-in-chief: Christos N. Markides holds the chair. He is at Imperial College London and works on solar thermal energy and thermodynamic cycles. The publisher states neither the year of his appointment nor the term of his predecessor.现任主编： （Christos N. Markides）任主编，供职于帝国理工学院，研究太阳能热利用与热力循环；出版方未公布其就任年份与前任的任期。[4]
- Founding editor: David Reay is described by the publisher as the founding and long-serving editor-in-chief, a leading figure in heat recovery and heat pipe technology, whose tenure spanned the first decade and more after the rename创刊主编： （David Reay）被出版方称为本刊的创刊并长期担任主编者，是余热回收与热管技术方向的代表人物，其任期跨越本刊由前身刊改名后的最初十余年；（Robert Taylor）亦曾出任主编。 Robert Taylor also served as editor-in-chief.[5]
- Role in the field: the journal has long been a principal venue for engineering research in thermal and energy systems, and its combination of component design with system economics gives it a readership spanning academia and engineering practice alike.学科角色： 本刊长期是热工与能源系统方向工程研究的主要园地，其兼顾部件设计与系统经济性的取向，使其读者同时覆盖学术界与工程设计单位。[6]