Sewage Sludge to Energy for Sustainability Transition
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sustainability and Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2020) | Viewed by 3360
Special Issue Editors
2. Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
Interests: process system engineering; sustainability engineering; engineering operations management; artificial intelligence; process simulation, integration and optimization; multi-criteria decision analysis
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: environmental policy simulation and assessment; new energy system simulation and analysis
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
It is our great pleasure to invite you to submit your most recent research on this Special Issue “Sewage Sludge to Energy for Sustainability Transition”.
Sewage sludge treatment has come to be seen as a significant challenge worldwide recently, because it contains various toxic substances, is of high risk to human health, and may potentially lead to many environmental and social problems if it cannot be treated in an appropriate way. Landfill technology is the most widely used method of sludge treatment in many countries, but this technology is not sustainable, because it poses great challenges for wastewater treatment facilities, including taking up precious space of the existing landfills, high treatment cost, risk of releasing toxins and heavy metals into the environment, and low social acceptability. On the other hand, the sludge-to-energy options that can convert waste into wealth have attracted increasing attention recently for their economic benefits and negative impact mitigation, and these alternative options are beneficial to achieve a circular economy and sustainable development.
There are various technologies/pathways for converting sewage sludge to energy (e.g., sludge incineration, sludge anaerobic digestion, sludge gasification, fast pyrolysis, and sludge for biodiesel), but the economic, environmental, and social performances of these technologies are different. The objective of this Special Issue is to build a forum for sustainability-oriented studies of sewage sludge to energy technologies for promoting the sustainable development of sewage sludge to energy. We welcome the papers in which multidisciplinary theories, tools, and methods are used for sustainability analysis and assessment, sustainability ranking and decision-making, and sustainability improvement of the technologies/processes for sewage sludge to energy, as well as for process integration and sustainable supply chain design for sewage sludge to energy.
In particular, we encourage submissions of research articles, case studies, and review articles related but not limited to the following:
- Life cycle analysis of sewage sludge to energy processes;
- Sustainability assessment of sewage sludge to energy technologies/processes;
- Advances of sewage sludge to energy technologies;
- Life cycle sustainability assessment of sewage sludge to energy processes;
- Techno-economic analysis of sewage sludge to energy technologies/processes;
- Circular economy or industrial symbiosis for sewage sludge to energy;
- Multi-criteria decision analysis on sewage sludge to energy technologies/processes;
- Sustainable supply chain design and optimization for sewage sludge to energy;
- Innovations on sewage sludge to energy;
- Process simulation and system analysis of sewage sludge to energy.
We believe that this Special Issue can fill the research gaps of sustainability-oriented studies and build a forum for researcher/scientists to discuss how to achieve sustainable development of sewage sludge to energy in a multi-level and multidisciplinary approach.
Dr. Jingzheng Ren
Dr. Junnian Song
Prof. Lichun Dong
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Sewage treatment
- Sludge-to-energy
- Waste management
- Life cycle assessment
- Environmental impact assessment
- Life cycle sustainability assessment
- Techno-economic analysis
- Sustainability assessment
- Multi-criteria decision analysis
- Life cycle costing
- Social life cycle assessment
- Circular economy
