A review of drying technology in tea sector of industrial, non-conventional and renewable energy based drying systems

KR Kumar, K Dashora, S Kumar, S Dharmaraja… - Applied Thermal …, 2023 - Elsevier
Drying is an important process in the tea processing industry. Drying arrests enzymatic
reactions to produce a stable product with increased shelf life. Development of the quality …

A new method of patent analysis to support prospective life cycle assessment of eco-design solutions

C Spreafico, D Landi, D Russo - Sustainable Production and Consumption, 2023 - Elsevier
Prospective life cycle assessment (LCA) was introduced with the goal to evaluate the
environmental sustainability of eco-design solutions (ie, ideas, prototypes, immature …

The circularity of potential bio-textile production routes: Comparing life cycle impacts of bio-based materials used within the manufacturing of selected leather …

J Hildebrandt, D Thrän, A Bezama - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2021 - Elsevier
Nowadays the fashion industry faces increasing pressures to reduce the environmental
impacts associated to the production of leather-based fashion products, particularly …

Removal of methylene blue from aqueous solution using black tea wastes: used as efficient adsorbent

A Ullah, M Zahoor, WU Din… - Adsorption Science …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
The biosorbent black tea wastes (BTW) after preliminary treatments was used in this study
for the removal of methylene blue (MB) from aqueous solution. The removal of MB from …

Economic, environmental, and emergy analysis of China's green tea production

Q Xu, Y Yang, K Hu, J Chen, SN Djomo, X Yang… - Sustainable Production …, 2021 - Elsevier
Tea is one of the most popular beverages worldwide, and the sustainability of tea production
is of vital strategic importance to tea farmers and stakeholders in its value chain. China is a …

Exergoeconoenvironmental analysis as a new concept for developing thermodynamically, economically, and environmentally sound energy conversion systems

M Aghbashlo, MA Rosen - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2018 - Elsevier
In this paper, a new concept called “exergoeconoenvironmental” analysis is proposed for a
better understanding of energy conversion systems with respect to thermodynamic …

Energy, exergy, economic and environmental (4E) analysis of greenhouse dryer in no-load condition

L Mishra, A Sinha, R Gupta - Sustainable Energy Technologies and …, 2021 - Elsevier
A lab-scale greenhouse dryer was developed and experimentally tested in no-load
condition under the humid climate of hilly region of Mizoram in North East India. Energy …

Nutrition and production related energies and exergies of foods

M Özilgen - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
Nutritional energy (E n) and nutritional exergy (Ex n) are the inherent thermodynamic
properties of foods; specific cumulative energy (CEnC) and exergy (CExC) utilization are …

Thermal degradations and processes of waste tea and tea leaves via TG-FTIR: combustion performances, kinetics, thermodynamics, products and optimization

H Cai, H Zou, J Liu, W Xie, J Kuo, M Buyukada… - Bioresource …, 2018 - Elsevier
The present study characterized the kinetic, thermodynamic and performance parameters,
products, factorial interactions, and optimal conditions of combustions of waste tea (WT) and …

[HTML][HTML] Spent coffee grounds and tea leaf residues: Characterization, evaluation of thermal reactivity and recovery of high-value compounds

E Sermyagina, CLM Martinez, M Nikku… - Biomass and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Spent coffee grounds (SCGs) and tea leaf residues are investigated as a potential source of
bioenergy and biochemicals and compared to several woody biomasses. The effect of initial …