Frontiers in Resources Recovery and Clean Energy of Sustainability from Geo Resources
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Waste and Recycling".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2022) | Viewed by 3520
Special Issue Editors
Interests: geothermal energy extraction; reservoir stimulation (hydraulic fracturing, thermal fracturing, non-water-based fracturing, and rock fragmentation); industrial and mining waste utilization for civil and geotechnical applications
Interests: machine learning; acoustic emission; rock mechanics; geomechanics; rock seepage
Interests: carbon sequestration; mine waste recycling; geothermal energy; coal seam gas; shale gas; hydrogen fuel; deep mining; natural gas hydrates
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The recently released IPCC report suggests that atmospheric temperatures could increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels in the next decade due to anthropogenic emissions and associated global warming unless urgent measures are taken on climate change. The severity of this can be underpinned by the fact that only since the last ice age, there had only been a 5 °C increment of global warming and that occurred over 5000 years. Therefore, it is undoubtedly a collective human responsibility to prioritize climate change tackling policies, mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, and promote low-carbon competitiveness, in addition to the economic recovery strategies that need to be implemented in the post-COVID-19 period.
Human civilization and economic development depend on energy and resource recovery, while the Earth is the primary source of recovering energy and resource, including oil and gas, minerals, and geothermal energy. Although significant advances have been achieved to harness the Earth's abundant energy and mineral resources in terms of resource exploration, deep drilling, mineral extraction, reservoir stimulation, reservoir modeling advances of geo-mechanics, geophysics, and geochemistry, conventional mining and Earth energy and resource recovery practices often carry a negative legacy in their detrimental environmental and social impacts. Thus, prioritizing both sustainability and large-scale economic viability of cutting-edge technologies of geoenergy resources is vital to reaching economic, employment, and emissions targets of a country and further promoting and advancing the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
Considering the progression of research and industrial initiatives for technological advances and the high level of innovation on georesource recovery and clean energy technologies from georesources, this Special Issue is dedicated to exploring recent contributions of science and technology to adopting sustainable measures for energy and resource recovery as well as developing technologies for efficient use of finite natural resources. We will particularly welcome submissions on the following topics:
- Sustainable clean energy technologies from geoenergy resources, including environmentally safe sustainable technologies for georesource recovery, for example, minerals, rare Earth elements, oil/gas, and geothermal energy;
- Emerging technologies for geoenergy and georesource exploration and assessment;
- Analysis and modelling of geoenergy production and georesource recovery and management;
- Initiatives towards the circular economy in the field of georesource utilization;
- Environmental, economic, and social concerns of geoenergy and georesource recovery;
- Role of geoenergy and georesource recovery in tackling climate change;
- Case studies of international interest that demonstrate successful implementation processes and strategies.
Dr. Pabasara Wanniarachchige
Dr. Zhenlong Song
Prof. Dr. Ranjith Pathegama Gamage
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sustainability
- geoenergy
- georesources
- minerals
- oil and gas
- geothermal energy