This is the Paperback Student Edition of Water and Energy: Threats
and Opportunities - Second Edition 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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