Preface

Abstract

The 10-th (Jubilee) International Conference on Thermal Equipment, Renewable Energy and Rural Development (TE-RE-RD 2019http://www.tererd.pub.ro/) was launched in December 2020 in order to be organized in the period 26-27 June 2020 at University Politehnica of Bucharest, but, due to the restrictions caused by the COVID-19 pandemics, it was shifted Online (powered by Microsoft Teams) TE-RE-RD is an International pluridisciplinary Conference aimed to be a forum for information exchange between scientists from academic, research and development communities around the world on topics related to thermal machines, equipments and technologies, equipments, technologies and policies for rural development, renewable energy sources conversion and other technical domains.Another target of the Conference is to offer to the young people involved in research activities (PhD, Master, and regular students) the opportunity to disseminate their work results and learn from experimented scientists.We also welcome people and entities from industry, agriculture, administration, trade, politics and media who want to cooperate with academic and R&D organizations in the fields of the Conference.