**Meet the editor**

Dr Chaouki Ghenai is a Professor at the Ocean and Mechanical Engineering Department, College of Engineering and Computer Science at Florida Atlantic University. Dr Ghenai received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Orleans University (France) in 1995. After his Ph.D., He worked as a visiting research professor at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York and University of Cali-

fornia Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California. In 2001, He joined the Applied Research Center (ARC) at Florida International University in Miami as a Combustion Manager. In 2006, He joined the Ocean and Mechanical Engineering Department at FAU, Boca Raton, Florida. Dr Ghenai is leading the combustion, alternative fuels, and renewable energy research programs at FAU. He has published more than 100 papers in professional journals and proceedings. Dr Ghenai is an honorary fellow of the Australian Institute of High Energetic Materials and FAU faculty honor fellow. He is a member of the Combustion Institute and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He is a reviewer for the ASME Journal, Combustion and Flame, Combustion Theory and Modeling, Combustion Science and Technology and Experiments in Fluids Journals. His research interests are combustion, energy efficiency, biofuels, alternative fuels, clean combustion technologies, renewable energy, sustainability, sustainable development, thermal-fluids, air pollution, and waste to energy process.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

**Part 1 Sustainable Energy:** 

Chaouki Ghenai

Armin Grunwald

Chaouki Ghenai

**Part 3 Sustainable Manufacturing 81** 

Chapter 6 **The Kaolin Residue and Its Use for** 

G.A. Neves and L.N.L. Santana

V. Chipofya, S. Kainja and S. Bota

**Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency 1** 

Aniceto Zaragoza Ramírez and César Bartolomé Muñoz

Chapter 1 **Albedo Effect and Energy Efficiency of Cities 3** 

**Part 2 Sustainable Engineering and Technologies 33** 

Chapter 2 **Life Cycle Analysis of Wind Turbine 19** 

Chapter 3 **Sustainability Assessment of Technologies – An Integrative Approach 35** 

Chapter 4 **Sustainable Engineering and Eco Design 63** 

Chapter 5 **Assessing Long Term Sustainability of Global** 

**Production of Mullite Bodies 117** 

**Supply of Natural Resources and Materials 83**  K.V. Ragnarsdóttir, H.U. Sverdrup and D. Koca

M.I. Brasileiro, A.W.B. Rodrigues, R.R. Menezes,

Chapter 7 **Integrated Water Resources Management - Key to Sustainable Development and Management of Water Resources: Case of Malawi 145** 

**Part 4 Sustainable Environment and Water Management 143** 

## Contents

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## Preface

The technological advancement of our civilization has created a consumer society expanding faster than the planet's resources allow, with our resource and energy needs rising exponentially in the past century. Securing the future of the human race will require an improved understanding of the environment as well as of technological solutions, mindsets and behaviors in line with modes of development that the ecosphere of our planet can support.

Some experts see the only solution in a global deflation of the currently unsustainable exploitation of resources. However, sustainable development offers an approach that would be practical to fuse with the managerial strategies and assessment tools for policy and decision makers at the regional planning level. Environmentalists, architects, engineers, policy makers and economists will have to work together in order to ensure that planning and development can meet our society's present needs without compromising the security of future generations. Better planning methods for urban and rural expansion could prevent environmental destruction and imminent crises. Energy, transport, water, environment and food production systems should aim for self-sufficiency and not the rapid depletion of natural resources. Planning for sustainable development must overcome many complex technical and social issues.

The sustainable development book is organized into the following four sections:


The first Section of this book starts with sustainable energy systems - renewable energy and energy efficiency. Research papers related to energy efficiency of buildings, energy sustainability indices and life cycle analysis of renewable energy systems such as Wind turbine are included in this section. The goal of the energy efficiency of buildings is to reduce the amount of energy required to provide products and services. The life cycle analysis of renewable energy systems is a technique used to assess the environmental impacts associated with all the stages of product's life: materials, manufacturing, use, maintenance, transport and disposal. The goal is to

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compare the range of environmental effects of products in order to improve processes, and support policy. Papers presented in Section II of this book are about sustainable engineering and eco design and shaping technologies for sustainable development. The methods and tools that will guide in the design analysis of the role of materials and processes selection in terms of embodied energy, carbon foot print, recycle fraction, toxicity and sustainability criteria are presented in these papers. Section III collects articles on sustainable manufacturing: creation of manufactured products that use process that conserve energy, reduce environmental impacts, and are much safer. Section IV is a collection of articles related to the environment and water management: all aspects of environment and water management and sustainability.

#### **Dr. Chaouki Ghenai, PhD**

Ocean and Mechanical Engineering Department, College of Engineering and Computer Science, Florida Atlantic University, USA

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compare the range of environmental effects of products in order to improve processes, and support policy. Papers presented in Section II of this book are about sustainable engineering and eco design and shaping technologies for sustainable development. The methods and tools that will guide in the design analysis of the role of materials and processes selection in terms of embodied energy, carbon foot print, recycle fraction, toxicity and sustainability criteria are presented in these papers. Section III collects articles on sustainable manufacturing: creation of manufactured products that use process that conserve energy, reduce environmental impacts, and are much safer. Section IV is a collection of articles related to the environment and water management:

**Dr. Chaouki Ghenai, PhD**

Florida Atlantic University,

USA

Ocean and Mechanical Engineering Department, College of Engineering and Computer Science,

all aspects of environment and water management and sustainability.

**Part 1** 

**Sustainable Energy:** 

**Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency** 
