Sustainability in energy production

Sustainability Impact Assessment of Waste to Energy Technologies in Iran

Introduction: Current energy sources are coming to end and one of the main priorities of the country’s management is the energy recovery from renewable energy. Considerable quantity of municipal solid waste (MSW) is one of the most serious urban pollution sources. Impact assessment matrix is a new and fast tool for Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA). Materials and Methods: In this regard, r...

Energy Sustainability in Cooperating Clouds

Nowadays, cloud federation is paving the way toward new business scenarios in which it is possible to enforce more flexible energy management strategies than in the past. Considering independent cloud providers, each one is exclusively bounded to the specific energy supplier powering its datacenter. The situation radically change if we consider a federation of cloud providers each one powered b...

Sensing and Energy Sustainability

Environmental and Social Sustainability and Supply Chain Efficiency in the Production of Biomass Energy

The aim of the paper is to present a coordinated framework of the researches conducted by GESAAF Department of the University of Florence, with a specific regard to the environmental and socioeconomic sustainability of supply energy chains and local energy districts. The common feature of the researches is to provide a planning decision support able to considering the geographic variability of ...

“integrating Cleaner Production into Sustainability

Bacterial Cellulose biosynthesis is one of the most important applied biochemical processes in biology. In order to explain the detailed molecular events of bacterial cellulose biosynthesis, we discuss in this work, the different steps required for bacterial cellulose formation and crystallization from sugar cane and honey. The potential of organisms to produce biocellulose fibers was analyzed....