One of the main aims of the Editorial Board of the journal is to clearly show connection between real needs of the community, industry, agriculture and other human activities and directed fundamental research, primarily in the fields creating basic knowledge for technical sciences and engineering. Not every researcher deeply focused on his research is aware of those connections. This issue of the Supplement 1, 2012 has the aim to start looking at thermal process from a "great distance" in order to see the whole picture.