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New Concepts and Policies for Sustainable Engineering

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Engineering and Science".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2022) | Viewed by 5353

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Wafaa Saleh

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Transport Engineering, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh EH11 4DY, UK
Interests: transportation sustainability; transport engineering; travel behaviour; environmental engineering; road safety; traffic demand management
Dr. Areej Malibari

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Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Computing and IT, King Abdulaziz University (KAU), Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Interests: artificial Intelligence; supply chain management
Dr. Marwa Ismail

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Electrical Engineering, Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh 84428, Saudi Arabia
Interests: biomedical engineering; image processing; optimization; compression; signal analysis; AI
Dr. Shabana Urooj

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Electrical Engineering Department, College of Engineering, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh 11671, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Interests: green energy; instrumentation; diagnosis techniques; soft computing and AI; healthcare technologies
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Dr. Shekaina Justin

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Electrical Engineering, Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh 84428, Saudi Arabia
Interests: green energy

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Sustainability is a principle that is key for the future. Actively functioning with environmentally conscious solutions comes naturally to anyone working in this setting. Many definitions exist for sustainability. One of the early definitions that was issued by the World Commission on Environment and Development during the 1980s is “Sustainability is the development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”.  Since then, many organisations and institutions, research studies, university degrees, projects and workshops have been advanced with the vision of utilising engineering efforts to develop long term solutions and technologies to attain sustainability.  The word “sustainability” tends to indicate renewable fuel sources, reducing carbon emissions, protecting environments, reducing waste and keeping our planet in balance. In short, sustainability tends to aim at maintaining our natural environment, while driving innovation without compromising our way of life.

This Special Issue invites contributions on concepts, applications and reviews that address challenges to and opportunities for sustainability.  The issue includes, but is not limited to, sustainable resources, renewable energy, energy saving smart technologies and management, food and other resource waste utilisation, reducing carbon emissions, protecting environment tools and techniques to keep the ecosystems of our planet in balance.

Major topics of interest also include:

  • New concepts, strategies and policies for sustainable engineering;
  • Smart management and technologies for energy policies;
  • Big data applications in sustainable engineering;
  • Implications of emerging technologies in the field of sustainability;
  • Implications of innovative models and approaches to assess sustainability;
  • Renewable energy and environmental sustainability;
  • Logistics and industrial applications of sustainability;
  • Integration of new mobility services with electromechanics systems;
  • Performance measurement and assessment of innovative sustainable solutions.

Prof. Dr. Wafaa Saleh
Dr. Areej Malibari
Dr. Marwa Ismail
Dr. Shabana Urooj
Dr. Shekaina Justin
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • sustainability
  • big data
  • renewable energy
  • smart management

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Food Waste, Attitudes and Preferences of Young Females: A Case Study in Saudi Arabia
by Ghada Alsawah, Wafaa Saleh, Areej Malibari, Maha M. A. Lashin and Tasneem AlGhamdi
Sustainability 2022, 14(4), 1961; https://doi.org/10.3390/su14041961 - 9 Feb 2022
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Investigations of attitudes towards food waste and preferences of policies that affect sustainability has increased rapidly over the past few decades. Most research on food waste, however, has been undertaken mainly in the developed countries with very few in the developing countries. It [...] Read more.
Investigations of attitudes towards food waste and preferences of policies that affect sustainability has increased rapidly over the past few decades. Most research on food waste, however, has been undertaken mainly in the developed countries with very few in the developing countries. It is very important therefore to investigate food waste and attitudes towards sustainability in developing countries, especially since a huge amount of carbon emissions and other pollutants occur in the developing countries. Saudi Arabia is a rich developing country that sets its 2030 visions to tackle issues related to sustainability. Many strong policies and programs are set in place to fulfil these visions. Such attitudes towards food waste diverges between cultures as a result of differences in background, income, family structure, age, etc. The contribution of this study is that it intends to investigate attitudes and preferences on policies and programs that aim at achieving sustainability and reducing food waste for young university females in Saudi Arabia. The methodology that is adopted in this study is to design a questionnaire, arranged in 5 sections and 23 questions, to collect data from 199 students at Princess Norah Bint Abdulrahman University. The aim of the questionnaire was to evaluate attitudes and preferences of female students towards food waste in Saudi Arabia, and in particular in the city of Riyadh. A number of policies were selected for the investigation, including three categories of policies: hospitality policies, education and raising awareness, and legislation policies. The participants expressed their opinions towards policies and programs that aim at improving sustainability and reducing food waste. Each policy was assessed in terms of its level of importance and its effectiveness in achieving sustainability. Two indices were calculated to compare and assess the perception of the suggested policies: the Perceived Effectiveness Index (PEI) and the Endorsement Index (EI). The results show that while some policies are perceived as both effective and supported for implementation, some policies are perceived as most effective; however, participants were not very supportive of their implementation. Hospitality policies, such as encouraging food waste recycling and providing the option to take away leftover food, were ranked highest in terms of effectiveness to achieve the target. These findings seem to echo the Saudi society’s attitudes of sustainable behaviour and positive attitudes towards food waste recycling. It should also be noted here that while the Saudi society is still a growing and developing society, it does care significantly about food waste and sustainability. The results are encouraging, and further investigations are urgently needed to better understand determinants of food waste at a household level in developing countries. Full article
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Jellyfish Search Optimization Algorithm for MPP Tracking of PV System
by Afroz Alam, Preeti Verma, Mohd Tariq, Adil Sarwar, Basem Alamri, Noore Zahra and Shabana Urooj
Sustainability 2021, 13(21), 11736; https://doi.org/10.3390/su132111736 - 24 Oct 2021
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Because of the rapid increase in the depletion rate of conventional energy sources, the energy crisis has become a central problem in the contemporary world. This issue opens the gateway for exploring and developing renewable energy sources to fulfill the exigent energy demand. [...] Read more.
Because of the rapid increase in the depletion rate of conventional energy sources, the energy crisis has become a central problem in the contemporary world. This issue opens the gateway for exploring and developing renewable energy sources to fulfill the exigent energy demand. Solar energy is an abundant source of sustainable energy and hence, nowadays, solar photovoltaic (PV) systems are employed to extract energy from solar irradiation. However, the PV systems need to work at the maximum power point (MPP) to exploit the highest accessible power during varying operating conditions. For this reason, maximum power point tracking (MPPT) algorithms are used to track the optimum power point. Furthermore, the efficient utilization of PV systems is hindered by renowned partial shading conditions (PSC), which generate multiple peaks in the power-voltage characteristic of the PV array. Thus, this article addresses the performance of the newly developed jellyfish search optimization (JSO) strategy in the PV frameworks to follow the global maximum power point (GMPP) under PSC. Full article
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