The Renewable Energy-Water-Environment Nexus: Fundamentals, Technology, and Policy

The Renewable Energy-Water-Environment Nexus: Fundamentals, Technology, and Policy explores the connections between renewable energy, water, and environment, and their integration, in the context of awareness, technologies, challenges, opportunities, and solutions, offering pathways to increased efficiency and sustainability.

The book begins by introducing different renewable energy technologies, including their importance of their development and use for a sustainable future, and the interrelationships between renewable energy, water, and the environment. In-depth chapters then examine specific sub-relationships, focusing in turn on renewable energy and water, renewable energy and environment, and water and environment, followed by discussion of available methods and tools for analyzing the renewable energy-water-environment nexus, including life cycle assessment of renewable energy systems. The last section of the book highlights key technologies and opportunities in the nexus, considering areas such as innovative cooling systems for thermoelectric plants to reduce or eliminate the use of water for cooling, reduction of water use in biofuels production, sea waves for desalination, grid management, energy storage systems, and hydrogen technologies, examining the integration of renewable energy, water, and environment-related policies, and discussing the application of artificial intelligence and nanotechnology techniques.

This is a valuable resource for all those looking to gain a fundamental understanding of the interfaces between renewable energy, water, and environment, including advanced students and researchers across energy, environmental science, sustainability, mechanical engineering, civil and environmental engineering, and chemical engineering, as well as engineers, scientists, R&D, and policy makers.