A critical review on livestock manure biorefinery technologies: Sustainability, challenges, and future perspectives

B Khoshnevisan, N Duan, P Tsapekos… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2021 - Elsevier
An ever increasing demand for animal protein products has posed serious challenges for
managing the increasing quantities of livestock manure. The choice of treatment …

[HTML][HTML] The battle for biomass: a systematic review of food-feed-fuel competition

A Muscat, EM De Olde, IJM de Boer, R Ripoll-Bosch - Global Food Security, 2020 - Elsevier
We review 75 studies on the competition for biomass and production resources such as
land, water, labour and capital across food, feed and fuel production. We identified seven …

Technical prospects and challenges of anaerobic co-digestion in Bangladesh: A review

CK Saha, R Nandi, S Akter, S Hossain, KB Kabir… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2024 - Elsevier
Energy scarcity and environmental pollution from biogenic residues and wastes are major
challenges in the 21st century, which can be converted to useful renewable energy and …

Life cycle assessment of manure biogas production: A review

EMM Esteves, AMN Herrera, VPP Esteves… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2019 - Elsevier
Manure is a livestock residue that causes high environmental burdens in different
categories. Its usage in biogas production is an environmentally beneficial way not only to …

Advances and challenges of life cycle assessment (LCA) of greenhouse gas removal technologies to fight climate changes

P Goglio, AG Williams, N Balta-Ozkan… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2020 - Elsevier
Several greenhouse gas removal technologies (GGRTs), also called negative emissions
technologies (NET) have been proposed to help meet the Paris Climate Agreement targets …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of anthropogenic activities on the dissemination of ARGs in the environment—A review

M Czatzkowska, I Wolak, M Harnisz… - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Over the past few decades, due to the excessive consumption of drugs in human and
veterinary medicine, the antimicrobial resistance (AR) of microorganisms has risen …

Accounting for soil carbon changes in agricultural life cycle assessment (LCA): a review

P Goglio, WN Smith, BB Grant, RL Desjardins… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2015 - Elsevier
Soil carbon sequestration, a climate change mitigation option for agriculture, can either
increase or decrease as a result of land management change (LMC) and land use change …

Agricultural anaerobic digestion plants: What LCA studies pointed out and what can be done to make them more environmentally sustainable

J Bacenetti, C Sala, A Fusi, M Fiala - Applied energy, 2016 - Elsevier
Anaerobic Digestion (AD) has been recognized as a viable solution to produce renewable
energy and to reduce global warming especially when secondary feedstock and/or wastes …

A critical review of data science applications in resource recovery and carbon capture from organic waste

MT Zaki, LS Rowles, DA Adjeroh… - ACS Es&t …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Municipal and agricultural organic waste can be treated to recover energy, nutrients, and
carbon through resource recovery and carbon capture (RRCC) technologies such as …

[HTML][HTML] Food, energy or biomaterials? Policy coherence across agro-food and bioeconomy policy domains in the EU

A Muscat, EM De Olde, Z Kovacic, IJM De Boer… - Environmental science & …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The European Union (EU) envisions a shift towards a bioeconomy to address
challenges such as reducing dependence on non-renewable resources, managing natural …