Conversion of biomass to biofuels and life cycle assessment: a review

AI Osman, N Mehta, AM Elgarahy, A Al-Hinai… - Environmental chemistry …, 2021 - Springer
The global energy demand is projected to rise by almost 28% by 2040 compared to current
levels. Biomass is a promising energy source for producing either solid or liquid fuels …

Innovative “green” and novel strategies for the extraction of bioactive added value compounds from citrus wastes—A review

P Putnik, D Bursać Kovačević, A Režek Jambrak… - Molecules, 2017 - mdpi.com
Citrus is a major processed crop that results in large quantities of wastes and by-products
rich in various bioactive compounds such as pectins, water soluble and insoluble …

Torrefaction of biomass: A review of production methods for biocoal from cultured and waste lignocellulosic feedstocks

S Barskov, M Zappi, P Buchireddy, S Dufreche… - Renewable Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
Torrefaction is a developing thermal process that has mainly been used to convert
lignocellulosic feedstocks, both cultured and wasted, into a “charred” product that can be …

Hydrothermal carbonization of waste biomass: Process design, modeling, energy efficiency and cost analysis

M Lucian, L Fiori - Energies, 2017 - mdpi.com
In this paper, a hydrothermal carbonization (HTC) process is designed and modeled on the
basis of experimental data previously obtained for two representative organic waste …

Valorisation of food waste via hydrothermal carbonisation and techno-economic feasibility assessment

NU Saqib, HB Sharma, S Baroutian, B Dubey… - Science of the Total …, 2019 - Elsevier
Food waste constitutes a remarkable portion of municipal solid waste. About one-third of the
global food waste produced is lost with the food supply chain. Food waste in many countries …

Recent progress in the utilization of industrial waste and by‐products of citrus fruits: A review

P Chavan, AK Singh, G Kaur - Journal of Food Process …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Citrus fruits are major processed fruits in the world that results in generation of large
quantities of by‐products, which are rich sources of soluble sugars, cellulose, hemicellulose …

Valorization of citrus wastes by fast pyrolysis in a conical spouted bed reactor

J Alvarez, B Hooshdaran, M Cortazar, M Amutio… - Fuel, 2018 - Elsevier
The fast pyrolysis of the juice squeezing derived orange waste has been carried out in a
continuous pyrolysis bench-scale plant consisting of a conical spouted bed reactor (CSBR) …

Demonstrating the suitability of canola residue biomass to biofuel conversion via pyrolysis through reaction kinetics, thermodynamics and evolved gas analyses

MH Tahir, G Çakman, JL Goldfarb, Y Topcu… - Bioresource …, 2019 - Elsevier
The identification of biomasses for pyrolytic conversion to biofuels depends on many factors,
including: moisture content, elemental and volatile matter composition, thermo-kinetic …

Biofuel production from citrus wastes: A feasibility study in Iran

A Taghizadeh-Alisaraei, SH Hosseini… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2017 - Elsevier
Biomass is a major energy source accounting for 10–14% of the world's energy supply.
Citrus is one of the most important horticultural products in Iran. Annually, a great amount of …

Life cycle assessment of orange peel waste management

V Negro, B Ruggeri, D Fino, D Tonini - Resources, Conservation and …, 2017 - Elsevier
The management of orange peel waste constitutes an economic and environmental problem
in regions in which there are important citrus processing industries, as is the case of …