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S. Sayanthan, Hassimi Abu Hasan and Siti Rozaimah Sheikh Abdullah
Floating aquatic macrophytes have a high level of proficiency in the removal of various contaminants, particularly nutrients, from wastewater. Due to their rapid growth rates, it is imperative to ensure the safe removal of the final biomass from the syst...
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Roman Egorov, Dmitrii O. Glushkov and Maxim Belonogov
The inevitable depletion of exploited fossil fuel deposits motivates the investigation of every possibility of saving them. One of the ways to do that is to combine fossil fuels with renewable plant-derived fuels. This paper studies the specific aspects ...
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Svetlana Islamova, Anastasia Tartygasheva, Julia Karaeva, Vladimir Panchenko and Yuriy Litti
The combustion of sunflower husk pellets was investigated by kinetic analysis supplemented by the Kriging method. The nonisothermal thermogravimetric experiments in air were carried out at the temperatures from 20 to 700 °C and heating rates of 5, 10, an...
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Bahia Karkach, Mohammed Tahiri, Achraf Haibi, Mohsine Bouya and Fatima Kifani-Sahban
The fast depletion of fossil fuels and growing concerns about environmental sustainability have increased interest in using biomass as a renewable energy source. Fast pyrolysis, a thermochemical conversion process, has emerged as a promising technique fo...
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Vladimír Fri?ták, Diana Bo?anská, Vladimír Turcan, Martin Pipí?ka, Christoph Pfeifer and Gerhard Soja
The recovery of sludge produced in the wastewater treatment process in WWTPs is often limited by the high content of toxic forms of contaminants of both an inorganic and organic nature. One of the options for the effective treatment of the world?s ever-i...
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Leonel J. R. Nunes, Laura Guimarães, Miguel Oliveira, Peter Kille and Nuno G. C. Ferreira
The common use of tires is responsible for the production of large quantities of waste worldwide, which are landfilled or energetically recovered, with higher economical cost and known environmentally harmful consequences. This type of problem must be st...
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Leandro C. de Morais, Amanda A. Maia, Pedro R. Resende, André H. Rosa and Leonel J. R. Nunes
The Brazilian sugarcane industry generates a significant amount of waste each year, which should be properly analyzed and studied to allow an adequate recovery and application supported by the best understanding of its properties. The present work report...
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Falah Alobaid and Jochen Ströhle
The world society ratifies international measures to reach a flexible and low-carbon energy economy, attenuating climate change and its devastating environmental consequences. The main contribution of this Special Issue is related to thermochemical conve...
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Stefania Lucantonio, Andrea Di Giuliano and Katia Gallucci
The European research project CLARA (chemical looping gasification for sustainable production of biofuels, G.A. 817841) investigated chemical looping gasification of wheat straw pellets. This work focuses on pretreatments for this residual biomass, i.e.,...
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Leonel J. R. Nunes, Liliana M. E. F. Loureiro, Letícia C. R. Sá and Hugo F. C. Silva
The sugarcane industry has assumed an increasingly important role at a global level, with countries such as Brazil and India dominating the field. However, this causes environmental problems, since the industry produces large amounts of waste, such as su...
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