Utilize the Potential of the Water and Wastewater Industry for Distributed Generation of Clean Energy

Document Type : Research Article

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1 MSc, Energy Systems Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology, Tehran University, Tehran

2 Associate Professor of New Energy and Environment, New School of Science and Technology, University of Tehran, Tehran

3 Ph.D. student, Energy Systems Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology, Tehran University, Tehran

Abstract

The limitation of the use of fossil fuels, increasing environmental concerns caused by the excessive consumption of fossil fuels, growth in population and energy consumption, power losses, low efficiency of thermal power plants as the issues that improve energy efficiency and the use of renewable resources. Thus, the water and wastewater industry has the potential of renewable energy due to the availability of facilities such as water pipelines and underground reservoirs, which this issue not only provides the possibility of the construction of renewable power plants, but also it is a good alternative to fossil fuels for reasons such as the lack of renewable energy, low cost of production, exploitation of minimum water potential, less social and environmental problems in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, increase the number of distributed generation of small scale.The losses in power distribution networks as one of the key parameters in energy efficiency, the importance of water and wastewater industry as a great potential for the distributed generation shows. In this paper, the potential of the water and wastewater industry for the distributed generation of clean energy with an emphasis on the benefits of micro-hydropower systems in this industry has been investigated for Tehran.

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Iranian journal of Ecohydrology
Volume 5, Issue 4
January 2019
Pages 1147-1160

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  • Receive Date: 31 January 2018
  • Revise Date: 05 June 2018
  • Accept Date: 16 September 2018

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