Design and Optimization of Integrated Desalination and Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage Processes
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Water Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 October 2023) | Viewed by 1683
Special Issue Editors
Interests: seawater desalination processes; CO2 capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) processes; renewable energies; optimization and simulation; mathematical programming (MINLP and GDP models)
Interests: optimization; mathematical programming; seawater desalination processes; CO2 capture processes; green hydrogen; life cycle assessment
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
As a result of the enormous world population and economic development growth, the supply of water, food and energy constitutes the main challenge of the 21st century, an issue already being faced in many countries. Over the last century, water usage and consumption grew at a twice higher rate than that of the populational growth, and even though water scarcity is not globally reported, there has been an increase in the number of regions with chronic levels of water scarcity.
In recent years, coal has attended to more than half of the world's energy demand, and although electrical energy production has improved due to the widespread use of renewable energies, the latest reports from the International Energy Agency (IEA) have indicated that the coal-based generation of electricity has reached the highest historical peak since 2011. Results have shown that coal consumption was 6% higher in 2021, mainly due to competitive coal prices, as compared to higher natural gas prices in main markets. However, the dramatic rise in coal consumption implied a record increase in greenhouse gas emissions of approximately 33 GtCO2. In line with these data, numerous universities, institutions and companies have devoted their efforts to studying CO2 capture processes as well as their use.
Thermal-process-based seawater desalination (multistage flash (MSF) and multieffect distillation (MED) desalination processes) and membranes (reverse osmosis (RO) units), including hybrid processes (MSF/RO, MED/RO or MSF/MED /RO) play a key role in fresh water supply, with sea water covering over 70% of the planet's surface. The operation of desalination processes requires high energy consumption; steam in MSF and MED and electricity in RO; requirements mainly satisfied through the use of fossil fuels.
Based on the above-mentioned points, the intention of this Special Issue is to investigate sustainability seawater desalination processes. Novel concepts and/or retrofit and/or novel designs towards near-zero carbon footprint desalination processes are particularly welcomed for submission to this Special Issue. We aim to promote the development of seawater desalination systems to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Topics covered in this Special Issue include, but are not limited to:
- Novel concepts/designs of integrated desalination plants and CO2 capture processes:
- CO2 capture from dual-purpose power desalination plants from flue gases through postcombustion, precombustion or oxycombustion processes;
- CO2 mineralization from flue gases and brine rejected from MSF, MED or RO units;
- Seawater desalination—carbon capture and sequestration (SD-CCS) systems;
- Seawater desalination—carbon capture and utilization (SD-CCU) systems;
- Seawater desalination—carbon capture, utilization and sequestration (SD-CCUS) systems;
- Stand-alone carbon capture and utilization (CCU) systems;
- Technoeconomic analysis of integrated SD-CCS, SD-CCU and/or SD-CCUS systems;
- Life cycle assessment (LCA);
- Mathematical modeling, simulation and optimization tools;
- Single and/or multicriteria optimization.
Dr. Sergio F. Mussati
Dr. Pío A. Aguirre
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- seawater desalination
- CO2 capture and utilization
- postcombustion
- precombustion
- oxyfuel combustion
- brine
- CO2 mineralization
- life cycle assessment LCA
- sustainability
