Food loss (FL) and food waste (FW) have become severe global problems, contributing to
resource inefficiency and environmental degradation. Approximately 6% of greenhouse gas …

Energy primarily comes from fossil fuels, which leads to environmental deterioration through
increased carbon dioxide load and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Renewable …

The current transition to a circular economy model laid the foundations for the development
of the Enhanced Landfill Mining concept. Hitherto, a few studies have been performed on …

The mining of landfills provides an important opportunity for waste resource recovery, and
the excavated waste with potential useable value has attracted widely attention. In this work …

A significant amount of aqueous liquids rich in organic, inorganic contents and leached
metals is produced during torrefaction of biomass, which requires additional remediation …

The recognition of the effects of fossil fuel consumption resulted in several agreements,
legislation, and projects focusing on the minimization of impacts caused. Biomass is a …

Brewers' Spent Grain is a by-product of the brewing process, with potential applications for
energy purposes. This paper presents the results of an investigation aiming at valorization of …

Due to the increasing installed power of the intermittent renewable energy sources in the
European Union, increasing the operation flexibility of the generating units in the system is …

Torrefaction is the thermo-chemical pretreatment that alters the various physico-chemical
properties of the biomass to produce an upgraded solid biofuel (green coal). The study aims …

While torrefaction improves the fuel properties of biomass pellets, the chemical components
of secondary products in liquid form are highly valuable in the industrial field. In addition, the …