Preface

Every two years the Department of Thermal Systems and Automotive from the “Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati, Romania in cooperation with the Romanian Society of Thermal Engineering (SRT) and the Romanian Society for Refrigeration and Cryogenics Engineers (AFCR) organizes and hosts the National Conference on Thermodynamics with International Participation. This year, the 23rd edition of the conference, NACOT 2023, took place. The Scientific Advisory Board has selected the topic of the conference and its participants. The conference program included invited talks, onsite participants and online participants from Romania, Poland, Belarus, Greece, Portugal, Tunis, Kazakhstan, Bulgaria, Turkey and Republic of Moldova. The conference covers a range of topics related to thermodynamics: Applied thermodynamics; Heat and mass transfer; Fluid dynamics and CFD; Refrigeration and heat pumps; Power plants and CHP; Internal combustion engines; Renewable energy (solar, wind, hydro, biomass, etc.); Energy use (industry, building, transportation, desalination, etc.) and storage; Environmental impact of energy conversion. The participation to this conference represented a good way to inter-personal and inter-institutional communication, discussion and exchange of ideas based on relevant research themes specific to the thermodynamics field, and to identifying potential partners and collaborators. List of NACOT 2023 Organizing Committee are available in this pdf.