Editorial Board Members’ Collection Series – Energy Resources: Past, Present and Future Role in a Circular Economy
A special issue of Resources (ISSN 2079-9276).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2024) | Viewed by 9561
Special Issue Editors
Interests: resources; renewable energy; environmental sustainability; circular economy; waste management, air pollution, microplastics, sewage sludge management, human health.
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Interests: surface and colloid chemistry; surfactants; polymers and proteins; green reagents; corrosion, slurry/paste processing (microelectronics-CMP) dispersions; biosolar energy; environmental engineering; dispersion/flocculation/deposition; molecular interactions at surfaces using advanced spectroscopy; biosurfaces and biosensors, and nanotechnology incl nanotoxicity
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The Circular Economy is a model where products must be managed to extend their life cycle and where their materials must be kept in the system for as long as possible. That means achieving waste reduction too. In recent years, the interest in it has grown worldwide. However, we can observe spatial and temporal differences. Focusing on the sector of waste management, in countries that had low incomes in the past, today, the system is close to being optimized. The future of currently low-income countries might be that of enhanced waste management. Efforts should be made worldwide to have a future where the circularity of materials is dominant. Sometimes the transition is not visible. This can be the case in some low-income contexts where the material recovery of waste is performed by waste pickers, which contributes, even if informally, to one of the steps characterizing a circular economy: waste collection. In the frame of a world more and more interested in the circularity of materials, this raises a question: what is the role of energy resources? Focusing on waste management, we can see that both renewable and non-renewable energy resources characterize this sector: biogas from biodegradable waste and energy from high-temperature processes applied to unsorted Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) are, respectively, a demonstration of that (MSW is an energy resource that is only partially renewable). Of course, energy resources have a wider role in the circular economy, because it is not only a matter of energy from residues: the role is also related to the need to use clean energy sources to have clean products that are part of a circular economy system. For that reason, this Special Issue is open to all kinds of contributions related to energy resources.
Dr. Elena Rada
Prof. Dr. Ponisseril Somasundaran
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- biomass to energy
- climate change
- circular economy
- economic sustainability
- environmental impact
- environmental sustainability
- geothermal energy
- hydropower
- innovation
- hydrogen
- environmental monitoring systems
- management
- photovoltaics
- social impact
- solar thermal
- renewable energy
- strategies
- waste to energy
- wind energy
- educational issues
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