Intensification of biodiesel production by hydrodynamic cavitation: A critical review

X Sun, S Liu, S Manickam, Y Tao, JY Yoon… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
Biodiesel, with its nature of clean, biodegradability, and renewability, is an ideal substitute
for fossil diesel. This critical review focuses on the advances in process intensification of …

Lignin nanoparticles: New insights for a sustainable agriculture

AE Santo Pereira, JL de Oliveira, SM Savassa… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2022 - Elsevier
Global agriculture is looking for new agri-tech revolutions not only due to the ever-growing
need for increased food production but also to protect the environment from the harmful …

Cavitation-based technologies for pretreatment and processing of food wastes: Major applications and mechanisms–A review

Z Askarniya, X Sun, Z Wang, G Boczkaj - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2023 - Elsevier
Conversion of food wastes to valuable products is an important topic for sustainable
development. Feedstock hydrolysis is a stage strongly affecting the anaerobic digestion …

Progress in the design and synthesis of biobased epoxy covalent adaptable networks

XL Zhao, YD Li, JB Zeng - Polymer Chemistry, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Epoxy thermosets have outstanding physical and chemical properties, but they are
unrecyclable/non-degradable due to their permanently cross-linked networks, and are also …

Intensity and regimes changing of hydrodynamic cavitation considering temperature effects

M Ge, G Zhang, M Petkovšek, K Long… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2022 - Elsevier
Venturi-type cavitation reactors still appear as the most promising candidates for industrial-
scale production due to their cheapness and ease of construction, scaling, and replicability …

Recent advances in hydrodynamic cavitation-based pretreatments of lignocellulosic biomass for valorization

X Sun, S Liu, X Zhang, Y Tao, G Boczkaj, JY Yoon… - Bioresource …, 2022 - Elsevier
Recently, the hydrodynamic cavitation (HC)-based pretreatment has shown high
effectiveness in laboratories and even in industrial productions for conversion of …

Sustainable lignin and lignin-derived compounds as potential therapeutic agents for degenerative orthopaedic diseases: A systemic review

W Pei, J Deng, P Wang, X Wang, L Zheng… - International journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Lignin, the most abundant natural and sustainable phenolic compound in biomass, has
exhibited medicinal values due to its biological activities decided by physicochemical …

Optimization of ultrasound pretreatment and enzymatic hydrolysis of wheat straw: From lab to semi-industrial scale

EC Gaudino, G Grillo, S Tabasso, L Stevanato… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this paper, the dominance of the physical effects of ultrasound (US) pretreatment in
improving the delignification of wheat straw at a 1: 20 solid/liquid (biomass/water) ratio is …

Sugarcane straw polyphenols as potential food and nutraceutical ingredient

ALS Oliveira, MJ Carvalho, DL Oliveira, E Costa… - Foods, 2022 - mdpi.com
The sugarcane processing industry generates a large amount of straw, which has a negative
environmental impact, and high costs are associated with their elimination, wasting their …

Non-cytotoxic lanthanum and nitrogen co-doped lignin-based carbon dots for selective detection of ions in biological imaging

X Zhang, J Wu, M Wu, L Wang, D Yu, N Yan… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Owing to their versatility, fluorescent carbon quantum dots (CQDs) have attracted significant
attention for applications in sensors, bioimaging, microfluidics, photodynamic therapy, drug …