Plastic waste upcycling toward a circular economy

X Zhao, M Korey, K Li, K Copenhaver… - Chemical Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
Large amounts of plastics are discarded worldwide each year, leading to a significant mass
of waste in landfills and pollution to soil, air, and waterways. Upcycling is an efficient way to …

Sustainable management of municipal solid waste through waste-to-energy technologies

S Varjani, H Shahbeig, K Popat, Z Patel, S Vyas… - Bioresource …, 2022 - Elsevier
Increasing municipal solid waste (MSW) generation and environmental concerns have
sparked global interest in waste valorization through various waste-to-energy (WtE) to …

Plasma gasification versus incineration of plastic waste: Energy, economic and environmental analysis

D Cudjoe, H Wang - Fuel Processing Technology, 2022 - Elsevier
The rise in plastic waste production and its mismanagement poses huge environmental
issues. Thermochemical techniques can minimize the amount of plastic waste discarded in …

The evolution of waste-to-energy incineration: A review

L Makarichi, W Jutidamrongphan, K Techato - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2018 - Elsevier
From the simple water wall incinerators of the late 19th century, the concept of waste-to-
energy incineration has evolved dramatically. Initially, waste treatment had no energy …

Thermochemical conversion of plastic waste into fuels, chemicals, and value‐added materials: a critical review and outlooks

RX Yang, K Jan, CT Chen, WT Chen… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Plastic waste is an emerging environmental issue for our society. Critical action to tackle this
problem is to upcycle plastic waste as valuable feedstock. Thermochemical conversion of …

[HTML][HTML] Medical waste management during coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak: A mathematical programming model

K Govindan, AK Nasr, P Mostafazadeh… - Computers & Industrial …, 2021 - Elsevier
Municipal solid waste (MSW) directly impacts community health and environmental
degradation; therefore, the management of MSW is crucial. Medical waste is a specific type …

Municipal solid waste (MSW) pyrolysis for bio-fuel production: A review of effects of MSW components and catalysts

AT Sipra, N Gao, H Sarwar - Fuel processing technology, 2018 - Elsevier
With the realization of fossil fuels depletion, research has been started on the alternate
energy sources. Biomass is a renewable energy source, from which bio-fuels can been …

The fate of chlorine during MSW incineration: Vaporization, transformation, deposition, corrosion and remedies

W Ma, T Wenga, FJ Frandsen, B Yan, G Chen - Progress in Energy and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Municipal solid waste (MSW) incineration plays an important role in waste treatment systems
throughout the world, due to the advantages of fast volume reduction by 80–90%, heat …

A critical review: emerging bioeconomy and waste-to-energy technologies for sustainable municipal solid waste management

TH Tsui, JWC Wong - Waste Disposal & Sustainable Energy, 2019 - Springer
Municipal solid waste (MSW) management has emerged as probably the most pressing
issue many governments nowadays are facing. Traditionally, Waste-to-Energy (WtE) is …

The future of flash graphene for the sustainable management of solid waste

NH Barbhuiya, A Kumar, A Singh, MK Chandel… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Graphene research has steadily increased, and its commercialization in many applications
is becoming a reality because of its superior physicochemical properties and advances in …