Special Issue "Water-Energy Nexus in a Sustainable Environment"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Sustainability".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2022.

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Noemi Melián Martel
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Guest Editor
Process Engineering Department. Industrial and Civil Engineering School. Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Interests: sustainability and environmental; water treatment; desalination; emerging technologies for water treatment; circular economy; water-energy nexus
Prof. Dr. Beatriz del Rio-Gamero
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Guest Editor
Department of Process Engineering, Industrial and Civil Engineering School, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Interests: water-energy nexus; marine renewable energies; environmental engineering; carbon footprint in water processes
Dr. Alejandro Ruiz García
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Department of Electronic Engineering and Automation, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 35017 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain
Interests: desalination; reverse osmosis; fouling; wastewater; modelling; process control
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The exponential growth of the world’s population, the effects of climate change, and the rising trend of water and energy consumption underline the huge pressure on the available water and energy resources. In this context, desalination and wastewater regeneration constitute an indispensable alternative water resource in any hydrological planning.  In order to ensure the sustainability of the water cycle, a paradigm shift is required.

This Special Issue, entitled “Water–Energy Nexus in a Sustainable Environment” focuses on exploiting a road maps that includes the use renewable energy sources to power the operation of water supply systems, the improvement of our understanding of the development of sustainable water treatment, exploration of new emerging technologies, and the use of the circular economy and blue economy in terms of water processes.

With this in mind, we invite papers that present new research proposals or the development and improvement of existing ones, including innovative case study applications that address, among others, one or more of the following topics:

- Renewable energies applied to water treatment (wastewater and desalination systems);

- Water treatment sustainability;

-  Emerging technologies for water treatment (their implementation and energy analysis);

- Carbon footprint in the integral water cycle;

- Circular economy in desalination systems;

- Environmental impact.

Prof. Dr. Noemi Melián Martel
Prof. Dr. Beatriz del Rio-Gamero
Dr. Alejandro García
Guest Editors

Keywords

  • water–energy nexus
  • sustainable water treatment
  • desalination
  • reverse osmosis
  • wastewater treatment
  • renewable energy
  • circular economy
  • energy efficiency
  • environmental impact
  • water footprint assessment

Published Papers

This special issue is now open for submission.
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