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Water and Energy - Threats and Opportunities (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
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Water and Energy - Threats and Opportunities (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
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Rapid and important developments in the area of energy - water
nexus over the last two to three years have been significant. This
new edition of Water and Energy: Threats and Opportunities is
timely and continues to highlight the inextricable link between
water and energy, providing an up-to-date overview of the subject
with helpful detailed summaries of the technical literature. Water
and Energy has been up-dated throughout and major changes are: new
chapters on global warming and fossil fuels, including shale gas
and fracking; the consequences of the Deepwater Horizon accident in
the Mexican Gulf and the Niger Delta oil spills; new developments
in hydropower; and continued competition between food, water and
energy. Water and Energy Threats and Opportunities, 2e creates an
awareness of the important couplings between water and energy. It
shows how energy is used in all the various water cycle operations
and demonstrates how water is used and misused in all kinds of
energy production and generation.Population increase, climate
change and an increasing competition between food and fuel
production create enormous pressures on both water and energy
availability. Since there is no replacement for water, water
security looks more crucial than energy security. This is true not
only in developing countries but also in the most advanced
countries. For example, the western parts of the USA suffer from
water scarcity that provides a real security threat. Part One of
the book describes the water-energy nexus, the conflicts and
competitions and the couplings between water security, energy
security, and food security. Part Two captures how climate change,
population increase and the growing food demand will have major
impact on water availability in many countries in the world. Part
Three describes water for energy and how energy production and
conversion depend on water availability. As a consequence, all
planning has to take both water and energy into consideration. The
environmental (including water) consequences of oil and coal
exploration and refining are huge, in North America as well as in
the rest of the world. Furthermore, oil leak accidents have hit
America, Africa, Europe as well as Asia. The consequences of
hydropower are discussed and the competition between hydropower
generation, flood control and water storage is illustrated. The
importance of water for cooling thermal power plants is described,
as this was so tragically demonstrated at the Fukushima nuclear
plants in 2011. Climate change will further emphasize the strong
coupling between water availability and the operation of power
plants. Part Four analyses energy for water - how water production
and treatment depend on energy. The book shows that a lot can be
done to improve equipment, develop processes and apply advanced
monitoring and control to save energy for water operations.
Significant amounts of energy can be saved by better pumping, the
reduction of leakages, controlled aeration in biological wastewater
treatment, more efficient biogas production, and by improved
desalination processes. There are 3 PowerPoint presentations
available for Water and Energy - threats and opportunities, 2e.
About the author Gustaf Olsson, Professor Em. in Industrial
Automation, Lund University, Sweden Since 2006, Gustaf has been
Professor Emeritus at Lund University, Sweden. Gustaf has devoted
his research to control and automation in water systems, electrical
power systems and process industries. From 2006 to 2008 he was part
time professor in electrical power systems at Chalmers University
of Technology, Sweden. He is guest professor at the Technical
University of Malaysia (UTM) and at the Tsinghua University in
Beijing, China and he is an honorary faculty member of the Exeter
University in UK. Between 2005 and 2010 he was the editor-in-chief
of the journals Water Science and Technology and Water Science and
Technology/Water Supply, (IWA Publishing). From 2007 to 2010, he
was a member of the IWA Board of Directors and in 2010 he received
the IWA Publication Award. In 2012 he was the awardee of an
Honorary Doctor degree at UTM and an Honorary Membership of IWA.
Gustaf has guided 23 PhDs and a few hundred MSc students through
their exams and has received the Lund University pedagogical award
for distinguished achievements in the education". The Lund
University engineering students elected him as the teacher of the
year He has spent extended periods as a guest professor and
visiting researcher at universities and companies in the USA,
Australia and Japan and has been invited as a guest lecturer in 19
countries outside Sweden. He has authored nine books published in
English, Russian, German and Chinese and and contributed with
chapters in another 19 books as well as more than 170 scientific
publications.
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