Overview
Sixth International Conference on Water, Energy and Environment

The conference promotes a global collaboration among faculty, students, engineers and managers on ecological economics and water, energy and environment resources management. It provides a forum for distinguished guest speakers and practitioners to address recent research results and to present and discuss related issues in energy, water and environment. A number of leading practitioners, policy makers and researchers will be invited to deliver keynote lectures.
The conference will include a peer-reviewed technical program, demos, short papers, posters, invited sessions, industrial presentations and exhibitions on topics such as:
- water regulation and policies
- water resources and sustainable development of the region
- progress in water protection and remediation
- desalination
- wastewater treatment
- energy
- environmental impact
- economic management and development of water resources
- environment
- other water-related topics
Gold Sponsor
Bee’ah
Knowledge Partner
Griffin Consultants
All abstract/extended abstracts (two pages in length) should be submitted via the conference website https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/ICWEE2019 or by email to ICWEE2019@aus.edu.
Presenters are solely responsible for submission and subsequent receipt of their abstracts. All extended abstracts must be received by December 30, 2018.
For accepted abstracts, at least one author must register for the conference in order for the paper to be published in the conference program and proceedings.
Posters
We encourage our colleagues to limit their submission to their best poster abstract. No more than two total abstracts per author will be allowed (one poster and one paper.
Papers
All submissions must be in Microsoft Word format. Each submission should include a separate title page listing the following: title of paper, author(s), organization affiliation(s), complete mailing address, email address and keywords (three to four keywords). All abstracts will be reviewed by members of the technical committee.
Selected manuscripts will be published in a special issue of selected journals such as Desalination and Water Treatment after the normal peer-review process.
On the Sustainability of Providing Water, Energy, and Food
![]() US Environmental Protection Agency National Risk Management Research Laboratory Cincinnati, Ohio, USA & Pazmany Peter Catholic University Center for Process Systems Engineering and Sustainability Budapest, Hungary |
The World is steadily moving into a major challenge. The challenge is how to provide for the growing and developing human population within the limits of one planet, the Earth, over the long term. The effort is known as sustainability. To explore this challenge, I will focus on the three closely linked issues of providing water, energy, and food. In addition, there is the issue of maintaining order and stability as necessary conditions for any kind of acceptable human existence. These issues, unfortunately, present critical but not well-bounded problems, and for that reason there are many more questions than answers. However, to explore the issues and their bounds, I will discuss what is known including some planetary limits and limits imposed by the known laws of Nature. This will include consideration of what exactly constitutes a sustainable system for water, energy, and food. While many considerations are possible, these can be condensed to about six requirements roughly representing human well-being, burden on land, energy resource use, efficiency of energy use, economic value productivity, and system stability. The application of these requirements to real systems will be discussed. The lecture will conclude with some thoughts on approaches stand a chance of adoption under current and foreseeable future conditions.
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this presentation are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views or policies of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
BIOGRAPHY:
Heriberto Cabezas serves as Senior Science Advisor to the Land and Material Management Division in the U.S. EPA’s Office of Research and Development (ORD), and as Professor at the Institute for Process Systems Engineering and Sustainability at the Pazmany Peter Catholic University in Budapest, Hungary. He is Chair of the Engineers Forum on Sustainability, a workgroup of all of the major professional engineering societies. His awards include: 1998 U.S. EPA Science Achievement Award in Engineering, 2007 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award from the New Jersey Institute of Technology, 2011 Research Excellence Award in Sustainable Engineering from the AIChE, ORD Sustainability Award (team) from the U.S. EPA, 2013 Lawrence K. Cecil Award in Environmental Chemical Engineering from the AIChE. Dr. Cabezas holds a Ph.D. from the University of Florida in thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, a M.S. from the University of Florida, and a B.S. (magna cum laude) from the New Jersey Institute of Technology, all in chemical engineering. He served as Embassy Science Fellow at the U.S. Embassy in Zagreb, Croatia in 2014. His publications include over ninety peer-reviewed articles and chapters, two edited books, and major software. He is a Fellow of the AIChE, a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a Board Certified Member of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists. Dr. Cabezas’ current research interests focus on: (1) the design of sustainable chemical processes and supply chains, (2) the design of sustainable productions systems in the nexus of food-energy-water, and (3) global sustainability where he leads the international Workgroup on Global Sustainability from his appointment at the Pazmany Peter Catholic University.
Multi-scale Energy Systems Engineering
![]() Director, Texas A&M Energy Institute TEES Eminent Professor Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering Texas A&M University |
Multi-scale energy systems engineering is a methodologic and generic framework to address complex energy and environmental problems via a holistic and system-based approach and arrive at realistic integrated solutions. This framework is used to tackle the problems existing in design, control, and operation of energy systems and their supply chains in an integrated manner. Optimal solutions are provided to the decision-makers for systems ranging from nanoscale, micro-scale, meso-scale to mega-scale levels over horizons that range from milliseconds to months or year.
Methodologies in energy systems engineering include, superstructure optimization with high-fidelity and data-driven modeling, mixed-integer linear or nonlinear programming, global optimization, optimal design and control under uncertainty, and life-cycle assessment. These concepts and methods are illustrated by presenting their application to natural gas utilization examples, including (i) optimal flowsheet design of ammonia-methanol coproduction from natural gas by using process synthesis techniques with simultaneous heat, power, and water integration, and (ii) supply chain optimization of natural gas to liquid transportation fuels (GTL) for nationwide, regional, and state-wide scales.
BIOGRAPHY:
Professor Pistikopoulos is TEES Eminent Professor in the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University. He was a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London, UK (1991-2015) and the Director of its Centre for Process Systems Engineering (2002-2009). At Texas A&M, he is the Director of the Texas A&M Energy Institute, the Course Director of the Master of Science in Energy, the Director of the Gulf Coast Regional Manufacturing Centre, and the Texas A&M Principal Investigator of the RAPID Manufacturing USA Institute on process intensification, co-leading the Modeling & Simulation Focus Area.
He holds a Ph.D. degree from Carnegie Mellon University and he worked with Shell Chemicals in Amsterdam before joining Imperial. He has authored or co-authored over 450 major research publications in the areas of modelling, control and optimization of process, energy and systems engineering applications, 10 books and 2 patents. He is a co-founder of Process Systems Enterprise (PSE) Ltd, a Fellow of AIChE and IChemE and the current Editor-in-Chief of Computers & Chemical Engineering. He is the past Chair of the Computing and Systems Technology (CAST) Division of AIChE and he serves as a trustee of the Computer Aids for Chemical Engineering (CACHE) Organization. In 2007, Prof. Pistikopoulos was a co-recipient of the prestigious MacRobert Award from the Royal Academy of Engineering. In 2012, he was the recipient of the Computing in Chemical Engineering Award of CAST/AIChE. He received the title of Doctor Honoris Causa from the University Politehnica of Bucharest in 2014, and from the University of Pannonia in 2015. In 2013, he was elected Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in the UK.
The conference constitutes an excellent opportunity for participants to hear from experts about the latest developments in water and environmental technology and to get practitioners’ views of innovative practices in some of the leading organizations. Companies and individuals are welcome to submit proposals for tutorials (short courses) and exhibitions to be held in conjunction with ICWEE 2019. Please send your proposal by email to ICWEE2019@aus.edu.
The committee will also provide facilities for exhibitors during the conference. For more information, please email ICWEE2019@aus.edu.
The contest is open to graduate and undergraduate students. All student posters must be submitted during the call for papers and must be accepted for the students’ poster session to be entered into the contest.
Posters for the contest will be displayed and winners will be announced at the general poster session on March 28, 2019. prizes will be given to first, second and third-place prize winners at the conference banquate.
Poster abstractc/extended abstracts must be submitted by November 15, 2018.
Paper abstract/extended abstract submission: | November 15, 2018 |
Poster abstract/extended abstract submission: | November 15, 2018 |
Notification of acceptance: | December 7, 2018 |
Tutorial/special session | |
proposal: | November 30, 2018 |
Paper submission: | December 30, 2018 |
Early Registration | US $400 | (By January 5, 2019) |
On-Site Registration | US $500 | |
Student Registration | US $200 | |
Student On-Site Registration | US $250 |
Registration fees include a leather briefcase, the conference proceedings USB, daily lunch, and the conference banquet dinner.
Conference Chair
Taleb Ibrahim
Steering Committee
Raafat Alnaizy
Taleb Ibrahim
Yousef Haik
Hans G. Huber
Ibrahim Abu-Reesh
Antonio Baptista
Yung-Tse Hung
Organizing Committee
Taleb Ibrahim
Zarook Shareefdeen
Paul Nancarrow
Kazi Parvez Fattah
Nabil Abdel-Jabbar
Sameer Al-Asheh
Ahmed Aidan
Mustafa Khamis
Sofian Kanan
Yehya El Sayed
Farid Abed
International Advisory Board
Mark Holtzapple, USA
Mahmoud El-Halwagi, USA
Ibrahim Dincer, Canada
Clayton Maugans, USA
Karl Rudolph, Germany
Stefania Paris, Germany
Nidal Hilal, UK
L. Rizutti, Italy
V. Nenov, Bulgaria
Tim Fuhrmann, Germany
Hisham Ettouney, Kuwait
I. Al-Mutaz, Saudi Arabia
Nabil Fayad, Saudi Arabia
Rodger Macfarlane, UAE
Tamer Gadallah, UAE
Youssef Mouneimne, Lebanon
Ramdhane Dhib, Canada
Mehrab Mehrvar, Canada
Fawzi Banat, Jordan
Mousa Abu Orabi, Jordan
S. Al-Sulaiman, Oman
K. Bourouni, Tunisia
Maazuza Othman, Australia
Joonkyu Kim, Korea
Sergio Mussati, Argentina
Tamer Shahin, UAE
Basem Yousef, UAE
Technical Committee
Kazi Parvez Fattah (Co-Chair)
Mustafa Khamis (Co-Chair)
Yehya El Sayed (Poster-Chair)
Zarook Shareefdeen
Ahmed Aidan
Maruf Mortula
Abdallah Shanableh
Mohamed Abouleish
Naif Darwish
Dana Abouelnasr
Sameer Al-Asheh
Rana Sabouni
Hasan A. Hasan
Hassan Arafat
Hussein Ahmad
Farouq Mjalli
Jamil Nasser
Isaac Wait
Mohammad Hamdan
Mustafa Khamis
Yehya El Sayed
Sofian Kanan
Habib-Ur Rehman
Mohamed Bououdina
Lucia Pappalardo
Conference Secretariat
Aileen Yulay, ICWEE2019@aus.edu
Web & IT
Aniss Zakaria
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For further information, please contact the organizers:
Dr. Taleb Ibrahim, Department of Chemical Engineering, American University of Sharjah
PO Box 26666, Sharjah, UAE | Tel +971 6 515 2460 | Fax +971 6 515 2979 | italeb@aus.edu
Aileen Yulay, ICWEE2019@aus.edu