TY - GEN
T1 - Powering & watering agriculture
T2 - 3rd IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference, GHTC 2013
AU - Farid, Amro M.
AU - Lubega, William Naggaga
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1109/GHTC.2013.6713689
DO - 10.1109/GHTC.2013.6713689
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84893952829
SN - 9781479924028
T3 - Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference, GHTC 2013
SP - 248
EP - 253
BT - Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference, GHTC 2013
Y2 - 20 October 2013 through 23 October 2013
ER -