Emerging approaches in lignocellulosic biomass pretreatment and anaerobic bioprocesses for sustainable biofuels production

R Kumar, TH Kim, B Basak, SM Patil, HH Kim… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2022 - Elsevier
The development of advanced biofuels from waste organic matter, such as lignocellulosic
biomass, is critical for global sustainable waste management and to delay climate change …

Myco-biorefinery approaches for food waste valorization: Present status and future prospects

MK Awasthi, S Harirchi, T Sar, VS Vigneswaran… - Bioresource …, 2022 - Elsevier
Increases in population and urbanization leads to generation of a large amount of food
waste (FW) and its effective waste management is a major concern. But putrescible nature …

Process design and techno-economic analysis of fuel ethanol production from food waste by enzymatic hydrolysis and fermentation

X Chen, X Zheng, Y Pei, W Chen, Q Lin, J Huang… - Bioresource …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this study, fuel ethanol production from food waste using enzymatic hydrolysis and
fermentation was evaluated from techno-economic viewpoint. The plant was designed with a …

Herbal biochar preparation and its application as soil amendment: Is such disposal of traditional Chinese medicine residue cost-efficient towards carbon neutrality?

Q Deng, A Li, L Luo, Y Wu, H Tang, T Zhang - Journal of Cleaner …, 2023 - Elsevier
Herbal biochar from traditional Chinese medicine residue (TCMR) and related carbon-
negative utilization could contribute to the realization of carbon-neutral disposal process of …

Sustainable development in period of climate crisis

H Mikulčić, J Baleta, X Wang, N Duić, R Dewil - Journal of environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
The ongoing process of climate change has shown that sustainable development of
humankind is a necessity. Existing resources need to be used in a form of a circular …

[HTML][HTML] Selective butyric acid production from CO2 and its upgrade to butanol in microbial electrosynthesis cells

M Romans-Casas, L Feliu-Paradeda… - Environmental Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
Microbial electrosynthesis (MES) is a promising carbon utilization technology, but the low-
value products (ie, acetate or methane) and the high electric power demand hinder its …

Recent advances in technologies, methods, and economic analysis for sustainable development of energy, water, and environment systems

W Chu, M Vicidomini, F Calise, N Duić, PA Østergaard… - Energies, 2022 - mdpi.com
Sustainability has become a broad societal goal, aiming to ensure that human beings
coexist safely and harmoniously with nature over a longer time. The influence of the COVID …

Exploration of algal biorefinery frameworks: optimization, quantification of environmental impacts and economics

K Viswanathan, JM Huang, TH Tsai, JS Chang, W Wu - Algal Research, 2023 - Elsevier
The integrated algal biorefinery (IABR) was considered as a feasible alternative to fossil
fuels. After the processes of algae cultivation and pretreatment, the algae biomass with …

Towards the effective distillation sequences for the purification of acetone-butanol-ethanol from the condensate of gas stripping-vapor permeation system

P Zhao, X Lin, H Chen, Z Chang, M Yang, C Su… - Journal of the Taiwan …, 2023 - Elsevier
Gas stripping-vapor permeation (GSVP) is an attractive method for in situ acetone-butanol-
ethanol (ABE) separation from fermentation broth to obtain renewable biological n-butanol …

Techno-economic analysis of macroalgae biorefineries: A comparison between ethanol and butanol facilities

T Llano, C Arce, LE Gallart, A Perales, A Coz - Fermentation, 2023 - mdpi.com
Ulva rigida seaweed is constituted by ulvan, which is a sulfated polysaccharide with uses in
a wide variety of applications. After the ulvan-oriented extraction process, a crystalline and …