Скачать или смотреть Decarbonization of Integrated Urban Water, Energy and Solids Management

Webinar Summary
The latest ICCP (2021) Climatic Warming is a "Code Red" warning to all about the largest crisis of this generation which would adversely transform life on Earth. Great reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions into atmosphere and decarbonization of economic sectors before 2050 are necessary for saving Earth and human society from the ruinous effects of climatic changes.

Now is the time to begin full speed planning and implementing solutions to reduce urban GHG emissions of water, energy, and municipal solid waste (MSW) systems to reach net zero carbon emissions, and by implementing hydrogen technologies decarbonize the systems. The webinar will outline the paths and technologies for this paradigm change from current CO2 emitting and fossil energy using used (waste) water treatment and methane emitting landfills to biogas producing treatment, hydrogen producing digestion and gasification, from CO2 emitting energy production by combusting biogas and incineration of MSW to clean hydrogen energy by hydrogen fuel cell, and from hard infrastructure and pavements to green landscape capturing CO2 and energy saving buildings so that by 2050 (or before) the urban water/energy and solids management systems will be decarbonized green energy producers and eventually negative carbon emitters.

About the Presenter
Vladimir Novotny (Diploma Engineer, PhD, BCEE) is a Professor Emeritus at Northeastern University (Boston) and Marquette University (Milwaukee). He has a professional career in research and in academia spanning 57 years and is an internationally recognized expert on water quality management and modeling, diffuse pollution, and total maximum daily loads of pollutants. His career includes research on reducing pollution of water bodies, Lagoon of Venice in Italy, and impoundments in Czechia. During the last 10 years he has been also a panel reviewer to South Florida Water Management District reports on eutrophication in Everglades and harmful algal blooms in the Lake Okeechobee. He lectured in many countries and received Fulbright Fellowship and Specialist Awards. In the International Water Association (IWA), he founded and was the first chairman of the Diffuse Pollution and Eutrophication Specialist Group and for his accomplishments he was in 2002 and 2003 nominated by IWA for the Stockholm Water Prize award. In these fields, he authored and co-authored 11 books, 160 papers, and numerous reports.

At the beginning of this century, he joined the international quest of scientists towards reducing the adverse impacts of greenhouse gas emissions from the cities, became a founding member of the IWA's Cities of Future Committee and active in developing concepts and solutions. On these topics, he has made conference and invited endowed presentations such as a Kappe Lectures series at ten universities sponsored by the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists, workshop at the Lake Como School of Advanced Studies and University of Pavia in Italy, Universities in Tokyo, Prague and MIT (Boston), and published 4 books and several papers.