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Energy and Water for World Agriculture 2019

A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 May 2019) | Viewed by 6807

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Prof. Dr. Talal Yusaf

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Pro Vice-Chancellor, International and Partnerships Portfolio, Federation University Australia, Office A101c, Building A, Mt Helen Campus, PO Box 663, Ballarat, VIC 3353, Australia
Interests: renewable energy; energy generation; conversion and storage; alternative fuels for internal combustion engine; microalgae fuel; mechanical method for water treatment
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue addresses the current challenges that face today’s world, such as limited access to energy resources and water resources issues. The available conventional energy resources is limited in many countries and become critical matters. However, the extensive use of conventional energy resources can produce detrimental pollutants in the ecosystem. Similar to the limited energy issue, water scarcity is another concerning matter that has polarized the attention of key researcher in the field of water and energy.

This special issue is amid to serve as a platform for researchers to address these issues and propose innovative solutions to the abovementioned challenges, particularly in the fields of Paucity of energy and water resources is a broad topic. The focus of the issue will be directed towards finding alternative, sustainable and environmentally friendly solutions of making these resources more accessible. The areas that will be targeted are sustainable, renewable and alternative energy resources for industrial and agricultural applications, green and energy efficient techniques of water and water treatment, and the common topics between these two themes.

Prof. Dr. Talal Yusaf
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Keywords

  • Recent developments related to agricultural wastes conversion to biofuels
  • Recent technologies of biofuels production
  • Water issues
  • Waste water
  • Agricultural wastes management
  • Environmental impact of agricultural wastes
  • Life cycle assessments of agricultural wastes
  • Using agricultural wastes biofuels as energy sources for power production (engines, power plant, etc.)
  • The impact of agricultural wastes biofuels on the current technology (tribological behavior, wear and tear of engine components)
  • Cost benefit analysis
  • Policies and regulations
  • Barriers and future

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The Impacts of Water Pricing and Non-Pricing Policies on Sustainable Water Resources Management: A Case of Ghorveh Plain at Kurdistan Province, Iran
by Mohammad Ali Asaadi, Seyed Abolghasem Mortazavi, Omid Zamani, Gholam Hassan Najafi, Talal Yusaf and Seyed Salar Hoseini
Energies 2019, 12(14), 2667; https://doi.org/10.3390/en12142667 - 11 Jul 2019
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As with other regions of Iran, due to excessive extraction of groundwater for intense agricultural activity, Ghorveh plain, a water-scarce irrigation district in the west of Iran, has faced a serious water crisis during the last decade. The present study investigates the impacts [...] Read more.
As with other regions of Iran, due to excessive extraction of groundwater for intense agricultural activity, Ghorveh plain, a water-scarce irrigation district in the west of Iran, has faced a serious water crisis during the last decade. The present study investigates the impacts of two scenario policies, namely, non-price policy (as a supply-oriented policy) and water pricing policies (as a demand-oriented policy) on agricultural sector of Ghorveh Plain, using positive mathematical programming (PMP). The model was calibrated by using farm-level data for the crop years in 2016–2017. Our findings indicate that applying water supply constraint policy will change the land use and cropping pattern to the crops with higher water productivity. The increase of water resource constraints can lead to the increase of water economic return which indicates a rising value of water resources shortage, warning the producers of the agriculture sector to allocate water to the crops with higher economic value under the water resources shortage conditions. In addition, the findings underline that in a situation where the price of irrigation water is low due to the low elasticity of water demand in the agriculture sector, formulating the economic instruments such as rising water prices does not solely suffice to achieve sustainable water resource management. However, mixed scenarios emphasized that the water distribution policies should be aligned with the increases in water cost. Full article
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Optimization of an Ultrasonic-Assisted Biodiesel Production Process from One Genotype of Rapeseed (TERI (OE) R-983) as a Novel Feedstock Using Response Surface Methodology
by Sara Almasi, Barat Ghobadian, Gholam Hassan Najafi, Talal Yusaf, Masoud Dehghani Soufi and Seyed Salar Hoseini
Energies 2019, 12(14), 2656; https://doi.org/10.3390/en12142656 - 10 Jul 2019
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In recent years, due to the favorable climate conditions of Iran, the cultivation of rapeseed has increased significantly. The aim of this study was to investigate the possibility of biodiesel production from one genotype of rapeseed (TERI (OE) R-983). An ultrasonic approach was [...] Read more.
In recent years, due to the favorable climate conditions of Iran, the cultivation of rapeseed has increased significantly. The aim of this study was to investigate the possibility of biodiesel production from one genotype of rapeseed (TERI (OE) R-983). An ultrasonic approach was used in order to intensify the reaction. Response surface methodology (RSM) was applied to identify the optimum conditions of the process. The results of this research showed that the conversion of biodiesel was found to be 87.175% under the optimized conditions of a 4.63:1 molar ratio (methanol to oil), 56.50% amplitude, and 0.4 s pulses for a reaction time of 5.22 min. Increasing the operating conditions, such as the molar ratio from 4:1 to 5.5:1, amplitude from 50% to 72.5%, reaction time from 3 min to 7 min, and pulse from 0.4 s to 1 s, increased the FAME (fatty acid methyl esters) yield by approximately 4.5%, 2.3%, 1.2%, and 0.5%, respectively. The properties of the TERI (OE) R-983 methyl ester met the requirements of the biodiesel standard (ASTM D6751), indicating the potential of the produced biodiesel as an alternative fuel. Full article
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