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Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems

ABSTRACT

This work contains a collection of selected, peer-reviewed papers that were presented at the First Dubrovnik Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems, held in Dubrovnik, Croatia in 2002. This conference was focussed on the following objectives: More...to discuss sustainability concepts of energy, water and envi

TABLE OF CONTENTS

part |2 pages

Part 1: Sustainability concept

chapter 1|20 pages

Sustainability concept for energy, water and environment systems

chapter 2|6 pages

Sustainable energy path

chapter 3|8 pages

Methodology to construct material circulatory networkin a local community

chapter 4|8 pages

Application of emergy analysis to sustainable management of water resources

part |2 pages

Part 2: Sustainability assessment method

chapter 5|10 pages

Method of allocation of the weights by fuzzy logic fora sustainable urban model

chapter 6|10 pages

Fuzzy cost recovery in planning for sustainable water supplysystems in developing countries

chapter 7|10 pages

Possibility theory and fuzzy logic applications to riskassessment problems

part |2 pages

Part 3: Social aspect of sustainable development

chapter 8|10 pages

Research on woods as sustainable industrial resources – evaluationof tactile warmth for woods and other materials

part |2 pages

Part 4: New and renewable energy sources for water and environment sustainable development

chapter 9|8 pages

The surface water retention basins as a tool for new and renewable water and energy sources

chapter 10|10 pages

Solar photocatalytic oxidation: a sustainable tool for reclaiming biologically treated municipal wastewater for high quality demand re-use?

chapter 11|10 pages

Development of solar testing station for flat-plate water-cooled solar collectors

chapter 12|10 pages

The application of solar radiation for the treatment of lake water

chapter 13|8 pages

Helinet energy subsystem: an integrated hydrogen system for stratospheric applications

part |2 pages

Part 5: Sustainable development of environment systems

chapter 14|12 pages

Dynamic simulation of pollutant dispersion over complex urban terrains: a tool for sustainable development, control and management

chapter 15|10 pages

Study of environmental sustainability: the case of Portuguese polluting industries

chapter 16|10 pages

The factors which affect the decision to attain ISO 14000

chapter 17|10 pages

Creation of a recycling-based society optimised on regional material and energy flow

chapter 18|8 pages

Environmental, energy and economic aspects and sustainability in thermal processing of wastes from pulp production

chapter 19|8 pages

Worldwide use of ethanol: a contribution for economic and environmental sustainability

chapter 20|6 pages

Environmental aspects of socio-economic changes for industrial region in Russia in transition economy

chapter 21|10 pages

Waste incineration in swedish municipal energy systems – modelling the effects of various waste quantitites in the city of Linköping

chapter 22|6 pages

Tidal power generation: a sustainable energy source?

part |2 pages

Part 6: Modelling and simulation of energy, water and environment systems

chapter 23|10 pages

Modelling of energy and environmental costs for sustainability of urban areas

chapter 24|10 pages

Alteration of chemical disinfection to environmentally friendly disinfection by UV-radiation

chapter 25|18 pages

Modelling the geographic distribution of scattered electricity sources∗

chapter 26|10 pages

Comparison of fouling data from alternative cooling water sources

chapter 27|10 pages

Influence of the critical sticking velocity on the growth rate of particulate fouling in waste incinerators

chapter 28|10 pages

A general mathematical model of solid fuels pyrolysis

part |2 pages

Part 7: Thermo-economic analysis of energy, water and environment systems

chapter 29|10 pages

The EnergyPLAN model: CHP and wind power system analysis

chapter 30|8 pages

Electric Power System Expansion Planning

chapter 31|10 pages

Development of an air staging technology to reduce NOx-emissionsin grate fired boilers

chapter 32|18 pages

Systemic approach for techno-economic evaluation of triplehybrid (RO, MSF and power generation) scheme including accounting of CO2 emission

chapter 33|10 pages

New fossil fuel energy technologies – a possibility of improving energy efficiency in developing countries

part |2 pages

Part 8: Sustainable development of water systems

chapter 34|8 pages

Water management of a small river basin toward sustainability(the example of the Slovenian river Paka)

chapter 35|10 pages

A simplified model for long term prediction on vertical distributions of water qualities in Lake Biwa