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Volume 8, Issue 10 (Suppl)
J Earth Sci Clim Change, an open access
ISSN: 2157-7617
Climate Change 2017
October 19-21, 2017
CLIMATE CHANGE
October 19-21, 2017 | Rome, Italy
4
th
World Conference on
Analogy between biofuels and nuclear energy and their contributions in the climate change mitigation
Moktar Hamdi
University of Carthage, Tunisia
T
he nuclear power which is an important technology option in climate change mitigation strategies must be strengthened
by innovation to maintain an acceptable level of performance and security. Commercialized nuclear power plants which
continue in mitigation of climate change require innovation in term of performance, cost, safety and extension of the useful
life to improve reductions of GHG emissions. Through human creativity and critical thinking, sustainable innovative solutions
for cleaner and cheaper nuclear energy will be provided thanks to multilateral collaborations and open innovation. Ecosystems
use sustainable energy from sun that leads to biofuels energy. Bio-refinery is defined as the sustainable processing of biomass
into a spectrum of marketable products and energy (Fig 1). By analogy to bio-refinery, we suggest the new concept of nuclear-
refinery which is a facility that integrates nuclear fuels conversion processes and equipment to produce fuels, power, and
by- or co-products (Fig. 2). Lessons learned from bio-refinery concept allowed to identify some opportunities for sustainable
innovation through nuclear fuel cycle in order to contribute in mitigation of climate change by: Maximizing the production
of energy contained in the fuel and maximizing the use of produced energy; minimizing material loss (by- or co-products)
and maximizing the reuse of wastes; integration of non-electric applications (cogeneration, desalination); the connection to
renewable energy and wastes treatment; use nuclear energy in agro food development (water, processing). The new concept
of nuclear refinery and lessons learned from bio-refinery concept should allow overseeing challenges of the sustainability of
nuclear power plant and increasing its contribution in the mitigation of climate change.
Biography
Moktar Hamdi is a Professor at University of Carthage. He attended the University of Provence (France), where he took an Engineer degree in industrial and
applied microbiology and subsequently obtained a PhD degree in Microbiology, followed by a Post-doctoral period at INSA Toulouse (France). In 1999, he joined
National Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology as an Associate Professor being promoted in 2004 to full Professor in Biological Engineering, where he was
Head of Department of Biological and Chemical Engineering from 2003 to 2008, and Head of Doctoral School from 2009 to 2012. He is also Director of Research
Laboratory in Microbial Ecology and Technology at University of Carthage since 2004. He has published over 180 papers, over 10 patents and some chapters in
several books. He is a scientific advisory boards and has served on many editorial boards of many indexed scientific journals.
moktarhamdi11@gmail.comMoktar Hamdi, J Earth Sci Clim Change 2017, 8:10(Suppl)
DOI: 10.4172/2157-7617-C1-036