The Water-Food-Energy Nexus

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Series: Green Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

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The Water-Food-Energy Nexus explores the critical and interconnected challenges of securing sustainable supplies of water, food, and energy amid global population growth. The book delves into advanced technological solutions for efficient water management, food production, and energy generation. Structured into four thematic sections, it covers water desalination, wastewater treatment, sustainable food security, bioenergy, fossil and renewable fuels, and prospects for sustainability including green engineering and innovative process strategies.
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This book suits researchers, professionals, and students in environmental science, engineering, sustainable development, and policy-making, as well as readers interested in the systemic interplay between water, food, and energy resources.

The book highlights the interplay among water, food, energy, and the future of sustainability. It discusses challenges in efficient water and energy production and management, wastewater treatment, and impact upon food and essential commodities. It includes a case study evaluating sustainability of process, supply chain, and enterprise.

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Exponential growth of the worldwide population requires increasing amounts of water, food, and energy. However, as the quantity of available fresh water and energy sources, which directly affect the cost of food production and transportation, diminishes, technological solutions are necessary to secure sustainable supplies.

In direct response to this reality, The Water-Food-Energy Nexus focuses on the water-energy-food nexus and describes in depth the challenges and processes involved in efficient water and energy production and management, wastewater treatment, and impact upon food and essential commodities.

The book is organised into four sections: water, food, energy, and the future of sustainability, highlighting the interplay among these topics.

The first section emphasises water desalination, water management, and wastewater treatment. The second section discusses cereal processing, sustainable food security, bioenergy in food production, water and energy consumption in food processing, and mathematical modelling for food undergoing phase changes.

The third section explores fossil fuels, biofuels, synthetic fuels, renewable energy, and carbon capture. Finally, the book concludes with a discussion of the future of sustainability, including the role of molecular thermodynamics in developing processes and products, green engineering in process systems, petrochemical water splitting, petrochemical approaches to solar hydrogen generation, design and operation strategy of energy-efficient processes, and the sustainability of processes, supply chain, and enterprise.

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ISBN: 9781138746077

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 07 September 2017

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: CRC Press

Illustration: 133 Tables, black and white; 168 Illustrations, color; 272 Illustrations, black and white

Contributors:

Edited by R. Srinivasan
Edited by I. M. Mujtaba
Edited by N. O. Elbashir

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 178.0mm

Height: 254.0mm

Weight: 1446g

Pages: 792

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Education & Reference Engineering, Technology & Agriculture Non-Fiction Science & Nature Series: Green Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

About the Author

Iqbal M. Mujtaba is a Professor of Computational Process Engineering and currently the Head of School of Engineering at the University of Bradford. He obtained his BSc Eng and MSc Eng degrees in Chemical Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology (BUET) in 1983 and 1984 respectively and obtained his PhD from Imperial College London in 1989. He is a Fellow of the IChemE, a Chartered Chemical Engineer, and the current Chair of the IChemE's Computer Aided Process Engineering Subject Group. He was the Chair of the European Committee for Computers in Chemical Engineering Education from 2010-2013.

Rajagopalan Srinivasan is a Professor of Chemical Engineering and Institute Chair at Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar. Previously, he was with the National University of Singapore and AStar’s Institute of Chemical & Engineering Sciences. Raj received his B.Tech from Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 1993 and PhD from Purdue University in 1998, both in Chemical Engineering. He was a research associate in Honeywell Technology Center, Minneapolis, before joining NUS.

Nimir Elbashir holds a joint appointment as a Professor in the Chemical Engineering Program and the Petroleum Engineering Program at Texas A&M University at Qatar and he is the Director of Texas A&M’s Gas and Fuels Research Center; a major research center that involves 27 faculty members from both the Qatar and College Station campuses of Texas A&M University (http://gfrc.tamu.edu/). He has extensive research and teaching experience from four different countries around the world, including his previous position as researcher at BASF R&D Catalysts Center in Iselin, New Jersey.

The Water-Food-Energy Nexus