Smart cities are an innovate concept for managing urban cities to enhance sustainability and
increase quality of life for citizens. Although urban water infrastructure (UWI) performs …

The EU Directive 2018/2001 recognized wastewater as a renewable heat source.
Wastewater from domestic, industrial and commercial developments maintains considerable …

In dealing with wastewater, chemical energy has traditionally been perceived as the only
source of recoverable energy in moving towards the carbon-neutral operation of wastewater …

For a very long time activities related to efficient domestic hot water (DHW) production and
distribution have been neglected and left behind due to an insignificant share in total energy …

In recent years, the utilization of a water source heat pump system (WSHP) has been
proposed in South Korea as a solution to reduce energy consumption of buildings. To …

Wastewater heat, a promising alternative to traditional district heating and cooling sources,
can be recovered using heat pumps and transmitted to surrounding buildings for winter …

One of the most effective ways to deal with the effects of the current global energy crisis is to
reduce energy consumption and rely energy management strategies. As a result, waste …

Reducing energy consumption has its direct impact on the worldwide environmental status.
Smart energy processes must be adopted in order to enhance the reduction capacity of …

Anthropogenic warming of the atmosphere is one if not the most pressing challenge we face
in the 21st century. While our state of knowledge on human drivers of atmospheric warming …

The main purpose of wastewater treatment plants concerns water pollution control.
However, recent research has shown, that wastewater treatment plants also seem to be …