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Energy Use for Food

The ability to feed a growing global population will increase competition for food related resources. A foremost challenge of our time is meeting food demands in light of the exacerbating effects of changing climate, population and consumption patterns. “The food-related emissions and impacts of climate change on agriculture and the food system will profoundly alter the way we grow and produce food ” (One-Third of our Greenhouse Gas Emissions Come from Agriculture”, Nature, 2012). Together the food industry and its associated food delivery services represent one of the most energy-intensive industries in many countries. Food processing requires energy to convert raw food into consumer products and is responsible for soil degradation and greenhouse gas emissions. This section focuses on energy demand and reduction opportunities in the food processing industry.

Utilizing energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies throughout each step of the food production process is imperative to meeting the surge in food demand without detrimentally impacting the resources on which the agricultural and food industries, and individuals depend.

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Concrete Thermal Energy Storage for Linear Fresnel Collectors: Exploiting the South Mediterranean’s Solar Potential for Agri-food Processes

This case study examines the possibility of generating, by a solar industrial process heating plant, the thermal energy required annually…

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Energy Conversion and Management

Date:

15 June 2018

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Energy use in Recirculating Aquaculture Systems (RAS): A Review

In aiming to achieve economic and environmentally sustainable production, a compromise has to be found between water use, waste discharge,…

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Aquacultural Engineering (Volume 81)

Date:

1 May 2018

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Food Processing Industry Energy and Water Consumption in the Pacific Northwest

This aims to quantify key sources of energy and water consumption in the food processing industry. It focuses on food-related…

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Innovative Food Science and Emerging Technologies

Date:

1 June 2018

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Path Choice of Developing Bio-energy while Keeping Food Security ---a General Equilibrium Model

This paper focused on a discussion whether developing bio-energy will threaten food security in China. It constructed a general equilibrium…

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Energy Procedia

Date:

1 May 2017

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The Water–Energy Nexus in Middle East and North Africa

This paper performs a country-level quantitative assessment of this nexus in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. The…

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Energy Policy

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Colocation Opportunities for Large Solar Infrastructures and Agriculture in Drylands

The goal of this study was to explore opportunities to colocate solar infrastructures and agricultural crops to maximize the efficiency…

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Applied Energy