Powering & watering agriculture: Application of energy-water nexus planning

Amro M. Farid, William Naggaga Lubega

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Abstract

This paper seeks to motivate an innovative approach to support new and sustainable solutions for increasing agricultural productivity in developing nations. Specifically, it holistically tackles the energy-water nexus as an engineering system and proposed the development of an integrated planning framework which stakeholders in developing countries can use to make decisions that support agricultural capacity. Thus far, the literature has focused on (i) discussions of various policy options (ii) technical surveys of energy and water intensities. In contrast, this paper presents a meta-architecture of the energy-water nexus in the electricity supply, engineered water supply and wastewater management systems developed using the Systems Modeling Language (SysML). Its quantization is then applied on a conceptual example inspired by the Egyptian geography. The paper concludes with useful measures that can be directly incorporated into agricultural capacity planning. In so doing, the paper begins efforts for coordinated control, operation and planning to overcome this large-scale, multidisciplinary problem made up of technical, economic, and social dimensions.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 3rd IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference, GHTC 2013
Pages248-253
Number of pages6
DOIs
StatePublished - 2013
Event3rd IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference, GHTC 2013 - San Jose, CA, United States
Duration: 20 Oct 201323 Oct 2013

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 3rd IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference, GHTC 2013

Conference

Conference3rd IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference, GHTC 2013
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Jose, CA
Period20/10/1323/10/13

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