Strategies for energy conversion from sludge to methane through pretreatment coupled anaerobic digestion: Potential energy loss or gain

X Wang, C Jiang, H Wang, S Xu, X Zhuang - Journal of Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Anaerobic digestion (AD) of wasted activated sludge from wastewater plants is recognized
as an effective method to reclaim energy in the form of methane. AD performance has been …

Current trends in nanocatalysis for green chemistry and its applications-a mini-review

N Agarwal, VS Solanki, B Pare, N Singh… - Current Opinion in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Present times are confronting many environmental, atmosphere, and energy-related issues.
Efficient catalysts and eco-friendly materials could provide apt solutions for such problems …

Fabrication of highly porous ZnO/Ag2O nanoparticles embedded in N-doped graphitic carbon for photocatalytic degradation of tetracycline

N Alhokbany, T Ahamad, SM Alshehri - Journal of Environmental Chemical …, 2022 - Elsevier
In the present study, we have successfully fabricated ZnO/Ag 2 O nanoparticles embedded
in nitrogen doped carbon based nanocomposites (ZnO/Ag 2 O-NDC). The fabricated …

Decoration of ZnO surface with tiny sulfide-based nanoparticles for improve photocatalytic degradation efficiency

G Murugadoss, S Salla, MR Kumar… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Modifying wide band gap ZnO nanoparticles surface by combine narrow bandgap
semiconductors is a novel route to promote the ZnO to diverse applications. Herein, different …

New insights into the safety assessment of quantum dots: potential release pathways, environmental transformations, and health risks

Q Liu, X Ding, Y Pang, Y Cao, J Lei, J Wu… - Environmental Science …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Quantum dots (QDs), also known as “artificial atoms”, are a new class of engineering
nanoparticles. They are semiconductor nanocrystals composed of a few atoms and have …

Spinning disc photoreactor based visible-light-driven Ag/Ag2O/TiO2 heterojunction photocatalyst film toward the degradation of amoxicillin

S Zamani, MR Rahimi, M Ghaedi - Journal of Environmental Management, 2022 - Elsevier
The presence of antibiotics in waste and drinking water is causing increasing concern
around the world, thereby an advanced sustainable technology needs to be developed to …

Biofuels production from weed biomass using nanocatalyst technology

S Ali, O Shafique, S Mahmood, T Mahmood… - Biomass and …, 2020 - Elsevier
In the current scenario of climate change, the search for alternative energy sources is very
important to reduce the use of fossil fuels. Undesired biomass (weed) from agricultural fields …

Anaerobic co-digestion of catering food waste utilizing Parthenium hysterophorus as co-substrate for biogas production

A Tayyab, Z Ahmad, T Mahmood, A Khalid… - Biomass and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Catering food waste is a constant concern both at home and in the restaurant kitchens.
Advances in the catering industry are generating a significant amount of catering waste …

Impact of photoactivated cobalt oxide nanoparticles addition on manure and whey for biogas production through dry anaerobic co-digestion

M Samer, EM Abdelsalam, S Mohamed… - Environment …, 2021 - Springer
The dry anaerobic co-digestion is progressively implemented for treating manure with
different agricultural wastes. Nanoparticles (NPs) were hypothesized to accelerate the dry …

Integrated microbial electrolysis with high-alkali pretreated sludge digestion: Insight into the effect of voltage on methanogenesis and substrate metabolism

L Wang, C Liu, T Sangeetha, WM Yan, F Sun… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Integrated microbial electrolysis with anaerobic digestion is proved to be an effective way to
improve methanogenesis efficiency of waste activated sludge (WAS). WAS requires …