Sustainability has become a broad societal goal, aiming to ensure that human beings
coexist safely and harmoniously with nature over a longer time. The influence of the COVID …

Integrated approaches across energy, water and environment systems can accelerate the
process of mitigating climate change through urgent action. New scientific advances that …

Water pollution and the lack of supply of clean water are both addressed by building
wastewater treatment facilities around cities. Sludge, a by-product of treating wastewater …

Under the background of “dual carbon”, the coupled power generation of agricultural and
forestry biomass (AFB) and coal, as a new path of coal-power transformation, is key to …

Because of rising global energy consumption, renewable energy sources have received
increased attention. The use of algal biomass as feedstock for biodiesel production has …

Algal-based biofuels offer distinct advantages over other types of biofuels currently available
within the fuel industry. However, one important disadvantage is that over their entire life …

Integrated biorefineries offer an efficient way to produce biofuels by enhancing profit through
the generation of marketable by-products and by reducing environmental impact by …

The background of this Special Issue (SI) of the Optimization and Engineering (OPTE)
journal is the 2021 Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems …

The target-oriented robust optimization (TORO) approach converts the original objectives to
system targets and instead maximizes an uncertainty budget or robustness index. Machine …

Global warming and climate change call for urgent minimization of the impact of human
activities on the environment. There is a great need for the improvement of resource …