Chemical, physical and biological methods to convert lignocellulosic waste into value-added products. A review

S Periyasamy, V Karthik, P Senthil Kumar… - Environmental …, 2022 - Springer
Actual agricultural practices produce about 998 million tonnes of agricultural waste per year.
Therefore, converting lignocellulosic wastes into energy, chemicals, and other products is a …

Utilization of microalgae for bio-jet fuel production in the aviation sector: Challenges and perspective

JHK Lim, YY Gan, HC Ong, BF Lau, WH Chen… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2021 - Elsevier
Aviation sector discharges approximately 2% of the global anthropogenic CO 2, and the
proportion is growing. The search for cost-effective and environmental-friendly bio-jet fuels …

Pyrolysis of banana leaves biomass: Physico-chemical characterization, thermal decomposition behavior, kinetic and thermodynamic analyses

RK Singh, D Pandey, T Patil, AN Sawarkar - Bioresource technology, 2020 - Elsevier
In the present work, non-isothermal thermogravimetric experiments were conducted at three
heating rates, viz. 10, 20, and 30° C/min to study the thermal degradation of banana leaves …

Pyrolysis of municipal sewage sludge for bioenergy production: Thermo-kinetic studies, evolved gas analysis, and techno-socio-economic assessment

H Shahbeig, M Nosrati - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
In this study, a comprehensive investigation was conducted to use municipal sewage sludge
(MSS) as a promising feedstock for bioenergy production via pyrolysis process. Using …

[HTML][HTML] Removal of toxic methyl orange by a cost-free and eco-friendly adsorbent: Mechanism, phytotoxicity, thermodynamics, and kinetics

SK Dutta, MK Amin, J Ahmed, M Elias… - South African Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
This article describes the adsorptive removal of acute toxic methyl orange (MO) dye using
natural jackfruit leaves powder (JLP) adsorbent without any chemical modification. The …

Co-pyrolysis of petroleum coke and banana leaves biomass: Kinetics, reaction mechanism, and thermodynamic analysis

RK Singh, T Patil, D Pandey, SP Tekade… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Insights into thermal degradation behaviour, kinetics, reaction mechanism, possible
synergism, and thermodynamic analysis of co-pyrolysis of carbonaceous materials are …

Banana pseudo-stem biochar derived from slow and fast pyrolysis process

N Abdullah, RM Taib, NSM Aziz, MR Omar, NM Disa - Heliyon, 2023 - cell.com
This study evaluated the properties of banana pseudo-stem (BPS) biochar derived from two
different types of pyrolysis. The fast pyrolysis experiment was performed using a worktable …

High-pressure carbon dioxide-hydrothermal enhance yield and methylene blue adsorption performance of banana pseudo-stem activated carbon

F Jiang, D Cao, S Hu, Y Wang, Y Zhang, X Huang… - Bioresource …, 2022 - Elsevier
In order to reduce environmental risks and fungus disease spread of banana waste, the high-
pressure CO 2-hydrothermal treatment was developed to produce hydrochar as a precursor …

Characterization of lignocellulosic biomass thermal degradation and physiochemical structure: Effects of demineralization by diverse acid solutions

M Asadieraghi, WMAW Daud - Energy Conversion and Management, 2014 - Elsevier
To eliminate the negative impacts of inorganic constituents during biomass thermochemical
processes, leaching method by different diluted acid solutions was chosen. The different …

Synergy between MgFe2O4 and biochar derived from banana pseudo-stem promotes persulfate activation for efficient tetracycline degradation

L Wang, X Lu, G Chen, Y Zhao, S Wang - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2023 - Elsevier
Exploiting environment-friendly and cost-effective catalysts and understanding their catalytic
mechanisms are a great challenge in persulfate-based advanced oxidation processes (PS …