Publications related to Zero waste

Critical review on bioconversion of winery wastes into value-added products

Global increase in the human population and life-style changes have led to enormous development in various industries, including beverage industry. Among the innumerable beverage industries, wineries have received increasing attention and consideration due ...

ELSEVIER2020

Critical overview of biomass feedstocks as sustainable substrates for the production of polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB)

Edgard Gnansounou, Ranjna Sirohi

Polyhydroxybutyrates (PHBs) are a class of biopolymers produced by different microbial species and are biodegradable and biocompatible in nature as opposed to petrochemically derived plastics. PHBs have advanced applications in medical sector, packaging in ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2020

Waste to wealth: valorization of food waste for the production of fuels and chemicals

Edgard Gnansounou, Binod Parameswaran

Food waste is becoming a major global concern especially in developing and underdeveloped countries. Vegetable and food waste biomass is continuously generated in huge amounts. Its major impact on the environment is the generation of greenhouse gases. Food ...

Elsevier2020

Bentonite clay barriers in nuclear waste repositories

Lyesse Laloui, Alessio Ferrari, Jose Antonio Bosch Llufriu

Deep disposal of high-level radioactive waste is the preferred solution worldwide for the long-term disposal of nuclear waste. This concept involves a series of geological and engineered barriers that provide isolation of the waste from the biosphere. Most ...

EDP SCIENCES2020

Flexible, adaptive industrial assembly: driving innovation through competition

Josephine Anna Eleanor Hughes, Kieran Daniel Gilday

Robotics competitions stimulate the next generation of cutting edge robotics solutions and innovative technologies. The World Robot Summit (WRS) Industrial Assembly challenge posed a key research challenge: how to develop adaptive industrial assembly robot ...

Springer2020

Wastewater management towards a sustainable futureDairy production: a study case

François Maréchal, Ivan Daniel Kantor, Rafael Amorim Leandro De Castro Amoedo, Anna Sophia Wallerand, Hür Ebuzer Bütün

The increasing demand for heat, electricity, fuels and chemicals is pushing naturalresources towards a non-reversible situation. Current solutions have to be adapted,and alternative (desirably sustainable) sources have to be found. With growth as-sured due ...

Institute of Thermal Technology, Silesian University of Technology2019

Rare Earth Metals Recycling from E-Wastes: Strategy and Perspective

Christian Ludwig, Rudolf Paul Wilhelm Jozef Struis, Ajay Bhagwan Patil, Mohamed Tarik

A robust and economically viable technology is under development for the recycling of technologically important rare earth (RE) metals from end-of-life lamp fluorescent powder (FP) e-waste. This is one of the first efforts to recycle RE from municipal e-wa ...

World Resources Forum2019

Form follows availability - Designing structures through reuse

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Gennaro Senatore, Jan Friedrich Georg Brütting

This work proposes a new direction in structural design: the synthesis of structures through the reuse of elements. Reusing structural elements reduces the environmental impacts of building structures because it avoids sourcing new material, it reduces was ...

2019

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Zero waste

Critical review on bioconversion of winery wastes into value-added products

Critical overview of biomass feedstocks as sustainable substrates for the production of polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB)

Waste to wealth: valorization of food waste for the production of fuels and chemicals

Bentonite clay barriers in nuclear waste repositories

Flexible, adaptive industrial assembly: driving innovation through competition

Wastewater management towards a sustainable futureDairy production: a study case

Etude de faisabilité d’un processus de biolixiviation pour le recyclage des métaux et terres rares contenus dans les téléphones portables.

Hyphenated Analytical Techniques for Studying the Speciation and Fate of Contaminants and Nanoparticles in Waste Treatment and Bioenergy Processes

Rare Earth Metals Recycling from E-Wastes: Strategy and Perspective

Form follows availability - Designing structures through reuse

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Etude de faisabilité d’un processus de biolixiviation pour le recyclage des métaux et terres rares contenus dans les téléphones portables.

Flexible, adaptive industrial assembly: driving innovation through competition

Hyphenated Analytical Techniques for Studying the Speciation and Fate of Contaminants and Nanoparticles in Waste Treatment and Bioenergy Processes

Critical overview of biomass feedstocks as sustainable substrates for the production of polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB)

Wastewater management towards a sustainable futureDairy production: a study case

Critical review on bioconversion of winery wastes into value-added products

Waste to wealth: valorization of food waste for the production of fuels and chemicals

Bentonite clay barriers in nuclear waste repositories

Rare Earth Metals Recycling from E-Wastes: Strategy and Perspective

Form follows availability - Designing structures through reuse