Water-Energy-Sustainability Nexus
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2019) | Viewed by 7140
Special Issue Editors
Interests: anaerobic digestion; biohydrogen production; granulation; immobilization; organic waste recycling
2. Institute of Chemistry, BioScience, and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Stavanger, 4021 Stavanger, Norway
Interests: bioenergy production from waste/biomass; biomass (lignocellulose/lignin) valorization to value added chemicals; environmental biotechnology/remediation; biosynthesis of nanoparticles and applications
Interests: sponge city; urban hydrology; water resource management; water environment and aquatic ecosystem restoration
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Interests: sustainable urban water development; sustainable urban water systems; planning and design; low-impact development techniques; climate change; urban water management; eco-restoration
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The major theme of the conference is the “Water–Energy–Sustainability Nexus”. The water, energy, and food security nexus means that water security, energy security, and food security are inextricably linked and that actions in any one area usually have an impact in one or both of the others. As the world population approaches 8 billion, with increasing demands for basic services and a growing desire for higher living standards, the need for more conscious stewardship of the vital resources required to achieve these services and desires has become both more obvious and urgent. While the focus of this Special Issue is the water–energy–sustainability nexus, authors are welcome and encouraged to submit their papers on topics such as, but not limited to, the following:
- The development of new alternative fuels
- Biofuel processing technologies
- Novel biofuel feedstocks
- New perspectives of alternative fuels
- New developments in microalgae for biofuel production
- Biohydrogen, biobutanol, bioethanol, and other biofuel production techniques
- Physical and chemical properties of alternative fuels and their improvement
- Predicting the properties of alternative fuel blends
- The modelling and experimental investigation of engine performance and the emission of alternative fuels
- Waste to energy
- Wastewater treatment
- Bioelectorchemical systems
- Wind and solar energy
- Photovolatics and their applications
- Novel nano-catalysts for biodiesel production
- Socioeconomic and environmental impacts of alternative fuels
- Biomass industries’ performance
- Future challenges and directions, and the economics, of alternative fuels
- Biofouling control
- Sponge cities/water-sensitive cities
- LID technologies
- Urban water management in the control of water and the reuse of water resources
- Watershed management
- Nanotechnology for remediation
- Sustainable development in water and energy use
- Novel membrane processes for biofuels, energy, and environment applications
Prof. Dr. Sang-Hyoun Kim
Prof. Dr. Gopalakrishnan Kumar
Prof. Dr. Dafang Fu
Prof. Dr. Rajendra Prasad Singh
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Biotechnology
- Nanobiotechnology
- Sponge cities
- Sustainable urban development
- Bioenergy, biofuel
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