Call for Papers: Special Issue on Environmental Frontiers for Water-Energy Nexus

 


Paper Submission open date: 1 November 2023
Deadline for Paper Submission: 1 October 2024
Engineering is an international peer-reviewed academic journal sponsored by Chinese Academy of Engineering. The journal is published on a monthly basis in English. Online versions are available through:
Scope
Water and energy are essential for human activity, which are closely interacted. Significant amounts of water are needed in almost all energy generation processes, e.g., generating hydropower, cooling power plants, extracting and processing fuels, growing biofuel crops. Meanwhile, the water sector needs energy to extract, treat, and transport water. Population growth and climate change placing additional demands, extra uncertainties on water and energy, and further challenging water and energy management by increasing water variability and intensifying weather events. However, the current planning is often made based on isolated considerations of water and energy without taking into account their mutual constraints. Therefore, this special issue is initiated in hoping to bring in new insights into water-energy nexus and to discover novel strategies supporting local and global sustainable development goals.
Topics include but not limit to
Water for Energy: water-optimized energy system, mining energy resources and cultivating biomass, refining liquid fuels, cooling thermoelectric power plants, generation of hydropower;
Energy for Water: energy-optimized water system including collection and conveyance, drinking water treatment and distribution, water heating/cooling, wastewater treatment, water reuse;
Water-Energy-Carbon synergy: carbon constrained water system, water-energy-carbon synergy, sustainable water-energy management.
Paper Length
Research Article: 6000 words;
Review: 6000–8000 words;
Perspectives: 3000 words;
Views & Comments: 2000 words.
Editorial Board of the Special Issue
Special Issue Editors-in-Chief
Jiuhui Qu, Tsinghua University, China
Glen Daigger, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
Executive Editor-in-Chief
Gang Liu, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Guest Editors
Jun Ma, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Mark van Loosdrecht, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Zhiguo Yuan, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Gang Yu, Beijing Normal University, China
David Waite, The University of New South Wales, Australia
Xia Huang, Tsinghua University, China
Eveline Volcke, Ghent University, Netherlands
Ming Xu, Tsinghua University, China
Xiaodi Hao, Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, China
Manuscript submission information
You are invited to submit your manuscript through the journal’s submission platform (Editorial Manager® https://www.editorialmanager.com/eng/default2.aspx) which is available for receiving submissions to this Special Issue after 1st-November-2023.

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