Review of waste biorefinery development towards a circular economy: from the perspective of a life cycle assessment

Y Liu, Y Lyu, J Tian, J Zhao, N Ye, Y Zhang… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2021 - Elsevier
Nowadays, reducing the environmental impact of biorefinery is a common concern of
scholars. life cycle assessment (LCA) is a widely used method to evaluate the environmental …

Organic waste biorefineries: Looking towards implementation

L Alibardi, TF Astrup, F Asunis, WP Clarke… - Waste Management, 2020 - Elsevier
The concept of biorefinery expands the possibilities to extract value from organic matter in
form of either bespoke crops or organic waste. The viability of biorefinery schemes depends …

Contribution to Circular Economy options of mixed agricultural wastes management: Coupling anaerobic digestion with gasification for enhanced energy and material …

N Antoniou, F Monlau, C Sambusiti, E Ficara… - Journal of cleaner …, 2019 - Elsevier
Anaerobic digestion (AD) is an established process for the treatment of organic wastes and
the production of renewable energy. However, high amounts of digestate produced by AD …

Techno-economic feasibility of waste-to-energy technologies for investment in Ghana: A multicriteria assessment based on fuzzy TOPSIS approach

S Afrane, JD Ampah, C Jin, H Liu… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2021 - Elsevier
Over the years, Ghana has been challenged with erratic power cuts and load shedding, and
waste-to-energy (WtE) technologies have been identified as one of the solutions to remedy …

A comparative life cycle assessment on four waste-to-energy scenarios for food waste generated in eateries

H Tong, Y Shen, J Zhang, CH Wang, TS Ge, YW Tong - Applied Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
A life cycle assessment (LCA) was conducted to determine the best solution for dealing with
the food waste (FW) generated in Singapore eateries. Since the representativeness of the …

From circular economy to circular ecology: a review on the solution of environmental problems through circular waste management approaches

L Adami, M Schiavon - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
(1) Background: The application of concepts linked to the circular economy (CE) has led to a
sudden development of studies in numerous fields. However, the level of environmental …

A multi-waste management concept as a basis towards a circular economy model

D Hidalgo, JM Martín-Marroquín, F Corona - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2019 - Elsevier
This study proposes the use of a waste management procedure based on the technical
development and practical implementation of a “Multi-Waste Plant” concept. A final point of …

Thermokinetic study of residual solid digestate from anaerobic digestion

CI Akor, AI Osman, C Farrell, CS McCallum… - Chemical Engineering …, 2021 - Elsevier
Anaerobic digestion (AD) has become an effective waste management method in the agri-
food sector to dispose of livestock and food wastes. As AD becomes more widely used new …

[HTML][HTML] Life cycle assessment of power-to-methane and renewable methane production technologies

HH Cho, V Strezov, TJ Evans - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2024 - Elsevier
The role of renewable energy, such as biogas or renewable methane is important for
decarbonisation of the energy sector. This study analyses environmental impacts of …

A critical review of data science applications in resource recovery and carbon capture from organic waste

MT Zaki, LS Rowles, DA Adjeroh… - ACS Es&t …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Municipal and agricultural organic waste can be treated to recover energy, nutrients, and
carbon through resource recovery and carbon capture (RRCC) technologies such as …