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Did you know that watching your favourite series on tv or just switching on your laptop for work, requires indirect water consumption? It’s a proven fact that every time we use energy resources, water is also consumed. In the next few decades, global water and energy demands will increase significantly, but at this time there isn’t a lot of information on expected global changes.
The Water Research Institute (WRI) estimates that around 33 countries will experience very high water stress by 2040. Which means that as water scarcity rises due to rapid population growth, climate change and water deterioration, the global demand for pure water will also increase. We hope this book will help answer some of the challenges.
The 13 chapters of this book were selected from multiple disciplines which focused on the state-of-the-art technologies in the field of environmental applications. These include technical-economic aspects of chemical precipitation; different substrates and concentrations of double chamber microbial fuel cells; the impact of pre-treatment on COD from paper industry wastewater; the synthesis of PES/Go-SiO2 mixed matrix membranes; predictions of a wastewater treatment plants performance of aeration demands; the performance of hydrological models for green roofs; short-term flexibility for energy grids from wastewater treatment plants; an integrated platform between water-energy-nexus and a business model for sustainable development; resilience-informed decision making in critical infrastructure networks.
In Focus – a book series that showcases the latest accomplishments in water research. Each book focuses on a specialist area with papers from top experts in the field. It aims to be a vehicle for in-depth understanding and inspire further conversations in the sector.
Editorial: Environmental technologies for the sustainable development of the water and energy sectors
Shadi Wajih Hasan, Haizhou Liu, Vincenzo Naddeo, Sebastià Puig and Ngai Yin Yip
Technical-economic comparison of chemical precipitation and ion exchange processes for the removal of phosphorus from wastewater
Agostina Chiavola, Simona Bongirolami and Giorgia Di Francesco
Effect of substrate type and concentration on the performance of a double chamber microbial fuel cell
Zia Ullah and Sheikh Zeshan
Cost-effective removal of COD in the pre-treatment of wastewater from the paper industry
Joanna Boguniewicz-Zablocka, Iwona Klosok-Bazan, Vincenzo Naddeo and Clara A. Mozejko
Synthesis of polyethersulfone (PES)/GO-SiO2 mixed matrix membranes for oily wastewater treatment
Maryam B. Alkindy, Vincenzo Naddeo, Fawzi Banat and Shadi W. Hasan
Predicting wastewater treatment plant performance during aeration demand shifting with a dual-layer reaction settling model
Matteo Giberti, Recep Kaan Dereli, Damian Flynn and Eoin Casey
Impact of rainfall properties on the performance of hydrological models for green roofs simulation
Mirka Mobilia and Antonia Longobardi
Short-term flexibility for energy grids provided by wastewater treatment plants with anaerobic sludge digestion
M. Schäfer
Design of an integration platform between the water-energy nexus and a business model applied for sustainable development
Heba Ahmed Mosalam and Mohamed El-Barad
Analysis of anaerobic digester mixing: comparison of long shafted paddle mixing vs gas mixing
U. Bergamo, G. Viccione, S. Coppola, A. Landi, A. Meda and C. Gualtieri
A resilience assessment framework for critical infrastructure networks’ interdependencies
Maryam Imani and Donya Hajializadeh
On the use of ARIMA modesl for short-term water tank levels forecasting
G. Viccione, C. Guarnaccia, S. Mancini, J. Quartieri
An economic model of risk assessment for water projects
Antonio Nesticò, Gianluigi De Mare, Gabriella Maselli
Water-energy nexus for estuarine systems with seasonal salinity variations: a thermodynamic feasibility analysis of reverse osmosis (RO)-pressure retarded osmosis (PRO) combinations
Arijit Chakraborty, Anirban Roy
Frontier Technology for Water Treatment and Pollutant Removal
Frontier technology in water treatment and pollutant removal is needed not only for maximizing water reuse but also for the rapid detection of contaminants in the recycled water. The UN announced...
Ecotechnologies for Wastewater Treatment - Impacting the Environment with Innovation in Wastewater Treatment
Acknowledging that resource efficiency as well as ecosystem protection are crucial goals to tackle has led to a deep rethinking in the way wastewater has been dealt with up to the 20th century....
Evolutionary Algorithms in Water Resources
Evolutionary algorithms and allied fields are getting more visibility as well as familiarity due to their numerous flexibilities such as handling high-dimensional non-linear problems and more....
Water and Environmental Challenges in a Changing World
Today, multi-disciplinarity is the key to tackle challenges for the sustainable management of water resources, especially considering the increasing complexity in the water world. It is thus...
Smart Water Utilities: Complexity Made Simple
Today there is increasing pressure on the water infrastructure and although unsustainable water extraction and wastewater handling can continue for a while, at some point water needs to be managed...
Finnish Water Services: Experiences in Global Perspective
Finnish Water Services: Experiences in Global Perspective, the latest book by UNESCO Chair holder Tapio S. Katko, challenges the reader to assess critical sector issues:
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Water Interactions: A systemic view
During the last two decades, the interrelationship between water and energy has become recognized. Likewise, the couplings to food and agriculture are getting increasingly obvious and alarming. In...
MBR Book, 2nd Edition
A Membrane BioReactor (MBR) is the combination of a membrane process (e.g. microfiltration/ ultrafiltration) with a suspended growth bioreactor. When used with domestic wastewater, MBR processes...