The coupling coordination and spatiotemporal evolution of industrial water-energy-CO2 in the Yellow River Basin

Ken Sun; Jingmin Han; Qianru Wu; Weisheng Xie; Wenbo He; Zhenzhen Yang; Yuanbiao Wang; Jiacheng Liu; Enhui Shi

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.169012

The coupling coordination and spatiotemporal evolution of industrial water-energy-CO₂ in the Yellow River Basin

Sci Total Environ. 2024 Feb 20:912:169012. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.169012. Epub 2023 Nov 29.

Authors

Ken Sun¹, Jingmin Han², Qianru Wu³, Weisheng Xie², Wenbo He², Zhenzhen Yang⁴, Yuanbiao Wang², Jiacheng Liu⁴, Enhui Shi⁴

Affiliations

¹ School of Environmental and Municipal Engineering, North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power, Zhengzhou 450046, China. Electronic address: sunken0371@126.com.
² School of Water Conservancy, North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power, Zhengzhou 450046, China.
³ School of Civil Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China.
⁴ School of Environmental and Municipal Engineering, North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power, Zhengzhou 450046, China.

PMID: 38040381
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.169012

Abstract

The Yellow River Basin (YRB) is an important energy, chemical, raw material, and basic industrial base in China. With economic growth, water and energy consumption in industrial industries increasing dramatically, huge pressure for CO₂ emission reduction has generated. This paper constructed an industrial water-energy-CO₂ (WEC) evaluation index system, analyzed the comprehensive evaluation level, coupling status and coupling coordination status, by using the comprehensive evaluation method, coupling degree model and coupling coordination degree model and used the spatial autocorrelation analysis to study the spatiotemporal evolution from 1999 to 2019 in the YRB. The results demonstrated that the integrated development level of the basin's industrial WEC system and subsystems had been improving. The basin was at a high coupling and the level of coupling had been increasing as a whole, and the industrial energy-CO₂ coupling degree was bigger than the industrial water-energy and industrial water-CO₂ coupling degrees in the YRB. The coupling coordination status had transitioned from forced coordination to good coordination. Spatially, the coupling coordination didn't appear a significant correlation and showed a random distribution. Accordingly, the suggestions were made to improve the level of industrial development in the basin, strengthen integrated resource management, and enhance intra-basin cooperation.

Keywords: Coupling coordination; Industrial water-energy-CO(2); Spatiotemporal evolution.