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Advances in Green Energy, Environment and Carbon Neutralization 2022–2024

A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "B: Energy and Environment".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 August 2024 | Viewed by 1603

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Hongyu Ren

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State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, School of Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150090, China
Interests: algae; anaerobic fermentation/digestion; energy and resource recovery; sludge treatment; biological treatment processes; advanced oxidation process
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Prof. Dr. Fanying Kong

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School of Water Conservancy and Civil Engineering, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China
Interests: algae; biological wastewater treatment; bioelectrochemical system; emerging containments; anaerobic fermentation/digestion; energy and resource recovery
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

With the rapid development of our society, environmental problems from industrial, life, and agricultural pollutions are becoming more and more serious all over the world. The whole ecological balance of the earth is changing. The massive destruction of the environment has brought about negative effects and even poses a great threat to humanity.

We must face this situation head on and take action to solve our environmental problems. This special issue focuses on how green energy technologies help to reduce environmental pollution and thus influences the sustainable development of the Earth. The purpose of this Special Issue is to bring together innovative academicians and industrial experts in related fields and establish an academic platform on the communication of latest research and developmental activities.

Thank you very much!

Dr. Hongyu Ren
Prof. Dr. Fanying Kong
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Keywords

  • environmental problems
  • environment pollution
  • green energy technologies
  • sustainable development
  • bioenergy
  • energy conversion and management
  • water-energy-food nexus
  • recycling technologies

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Sustainability and Strategic Assessment of Water and Energy Integration Systems: Case Studies of the Process Industry in Portugal
by Miguel Castro Oliveira and Henrique A. Matos
Energies 2024, 17(1), 195; https://doi.org/10.3390/en17010195 - 29 Dec 2023
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The most recent sustainability policies of each region of the world conjointly define that economic activities shall follow the principles of natural resource use minimisation, as well as eco-efficiency and circular economy promotion, in addition to the specific objectives defined in each policy. [...] Read more.
The most recent sustainability policies of each region of the world conjointly define that economic activities shall follow the principles of natural resource use minimisation, as well as eco-efficiency and circular economy promotion, in addition to the specific objectives defined in each policy. Most recently, a group of researchers has proposed innovative conceptual systems designated Water and Energy Integration Systems (WEIS) for issues related to water and energy use (two prominent categories of natural resources). These are based on engineering projects encompassing a multitude of processes and technologies. In this work, an assessment based on the determination of several sustainability and strategic-aims-related indicators is performed for two WEIS case studies set in the Portuguese process industry (in this case, a ceramic plant). Such an assessment serves as an expansion of previously performed studies on the economic and environmental viability associated with the installation of this type of system with the ultimate goal of proving the effective compliance of water- and energy-use-reduction-related results with sustainability and strategic aims (namely, the ones associated with the most recent policies and aspects associated with the social, economic, and environmental pillars of sustainability). The results for the overall assessment proved that the conceptualised WEIS are robust in terms of eco-efficiency, circular economy potential, and strategic objective achievement potential (with a 6.46% and 4.00% improvement for the aggregated eco-efficiency indicator having been obtained for, respectively, case studies 1 and 2, a null water discharge for both case studies, and a level of 8.58% and 6.69% of recirculated heat over total energy consumption, respectively). The obtained results prove the sustainability promotion effectiveness of the WEIS as conceptual systems. The overall set of indicators defined in this work are part of a methodology that may be used and adapted for further studies considering the innovative WEIS approach, with the specific results obtained in this work presented with the aim of their being used for comparison. Full article
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