Environmental Energy Sustainability at Universities

Fundamentals of Materials for Energy and Environmental Sustainability

Energy, Economic Growth and Environmental Sustainability: Five Propositions

This paper advances five linked and controversial propositions that have both deep historical roots and urgent contemporary relevance. These are: (a) the rebound effects from energy efficiency improvements are significant and limit the potential for decoupling energy consumption from economic growth; (b) the contribution of energy to productivity improvements and economic growth has been greatl...

Environmental sustainability enhancement of a petroleum refinery through heat exchanger network retrofitting and renewable energy

This paper presents a case study on the enhancement of environmental sustainability in a petroleum refining process based on an exergetic diagnostic approach. The Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) pinpointed crude oil production and electricity generating systems as the main sources of environmental unsustainability. The existing hot utility demand of the process is 78.4 MW with a temperature differe...

Critical Success Factors for Successful Energy Management Implementation towards Sustainability in Malaysian Universities

Recently, universities are increasingly consuming energy to support various activities. A large population of staff and students in Malaysian universities has led to excessive energy consumption which directly gives an impact to the environment. The key question then ascended “How well is an energy management (EM) been practiced in universities without taking the Critical Success Factors (CSFs)...

Modeling of water, energy, food nexus in Varamin city and evaluating its social and environmental sustainability

Population growth, growing scarcity of freshwater resources and food security have convinced all operators that spending large sums of money on cross-cutting responses to water, energy and food needs, especially in the face of climate change and global warming, is unreasonable.According to the latest classification of the International Geographical Organization, Iran is located in the category ...