Sustainable utilization of biowaste compost for renewable energy and soil amendments

WY Chia, KW Chew, CF Le, SS Lam, CSC Chee… - Environmental …, 2020 - Elsevier
Acceleration of urbanization and industrialization has resulted in the drastic rise of waste
generation with majority of them being biowaste. This constitutes a global challenge since …

Digestate management and processing practices: a review

Đ Kovačić, Z Lončarić, J Jović, D Samac, B Popović… - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
The implementation of sustainable agro-energy systems that integrate crop, livestock, and
bioenergy production is attracting increasing interest from farmers. Livestock produces large …

Biogas production from organic wastes: Integrating concepts of circular economy

M Ellacuriaga, J García-Cascallana, X Gómez - Fuels, 2021 - mdpi.com
Anaerobic digestion is traditionally used for treating organic materials. This allows the
valorization of biogas and recycling of nutrients thanks to the land application of digestates …

Hydrothermal carbonization of rape straw: Effect of reaction parameters on hydrochar and migration of AAEMs

C Cheng, Q He, TM Ismail, A Mosqueda, L Ding, J Yu… - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
Hydrothermal carbonization (HTC) can improve biomass quality in both physical and
chemical aspects for energy application. This study aims to investigate the characteristics …

Anaerobic co-digestion of wastes: reviewing current status and approaches for enhancing biogas production

R González, DC Peña, X Gómez - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Anaerobic digestion is one of the technologies that will play a key role in the
decarbonization of the economy, due to its capacity to treat organic waste, recover nutrients …

Anaerobic digestion for producing renewable energy—the evolution of this technology in a new uncertain scenario

CA Sevillano, AA Pesantes, E Peña Carpio… - Entropy, 2021 - mdpi.com
Anaerobic digestion is a well-known technology with wide application in the treatment of
high-strength organic wastes. The economic feasibility of this type of installation is usually …

Sustainable processing of algal biomass for a comprehensive biorefinery

MU Javed, H Mukhtar, MT Hayat, U Rashid… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Nearly 15 billion metric tons of fossil fuels are consumed each year all over the world
resulting in the depletion of non-renewable energy resources day by day therefore in the …

Multilinear regression model for biogas production prediction from dry anaerobic digestion of OFMSW

E Rossi, I Pecorini, R Iannelli - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
The aim of this study was to develop a multiple linear regression (MLR) model to predict the
specific methane production (SMP) from dry anaerobic digestion (AD) of the organic fraction …

Yard waste prediction from estimated municipal solid waste using the grey theory to achieve a zero-waste strategy

MR Islam, G Kabir, KTW Ng, SM Ali - Environmental Science and Pollution …, 2022 - Springer
Yard waste is one of the key components of municipal solid waste and can play a vital role in
implementing zero-waste strategy to achieve sustainable municipal solid waste …

Effects of Vermicompost, Compost and Digestate as Commercial Alternative Peat-Based Substrates on Qualitative Parameters of Salvia officinalis

C Greco, A Comparetti, G Fascella, P Febo, G La Placa… - Agronomy, 2021 - mdpi.com
Peat is a common substrate used for the cultivation of potted plants. However, the use of
peat in horticulture has recently been questioned from an environmental standpoint, since it …