Turning food loss and food waste into Watts: A review of food waste as an energy source

F Economou, I Voukkali, I Papamichael, V Phinikettou… - Energies, 2024 - mdpi.com
Food loss (FL) and food waste (FW) have become severe global problems, contributing to
resource inefficiency and environmental degradation. Approximately 6% of greenhouse gas …

Dioxins and furans in biochars, hydrochars and torreficates produced by thermochemical conversion of biomass: a review

Ł Sobol, A Dyjakon, K Soukup - Environmental Chemistry Letters, 2023 - Springer
Converting raw biomass into valuable products protects the environment, improves
economics, and helps tackle climate change by cutting resource demand and waste …

Biochar derived from Chinese herb medicine residues for rhodamine B dye adsorption

P Li, T Zhao, Z Zhao, H Tang, W Feng, Z Zhang - ACS omega, 2023 - ACS Publications
In this study, one well-known CHM residue (Atropa belladonna L., ABL) was used to prepare
biochar capable of adsorbing rhodamine B (RhB) with an ultrahigh surface area for the first …

An impressive pristine biochar from food waste digestate for arsenic (V) removal from water: Performance, optimization, and mechanism

J Liu, H Jia, Z Xu, T Wang, M Mei, S Chen, J Li… - Bioresource …, 2023 - Elsevier
Anaerobic digestion has become a global practice for valorizing food waste, but the
recycling of the digestate (FWD) remains challenging. This study aimed to address this issue …

Synergetic effects of biochar addition on mesophilic and high total solids anaerobic digestion of chicken manure

S Kizito, J Jjagwe, SW Mdondo, CB Nagawa… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
High solids anaerobic digestion (AD) of chicken manure (CM) is often challenging due to
ammonia-N inhibition and accumulation of volatile fatty acids (VFAs). This study evaluated …

[HTML][HTML] Food waste recycling to Yarrowia biomass due to combined hydrothermal carbonization and biological treatment

WA Rasaq, B Matyjewicz, K Świechowski… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2024 - Elsevier
Food waste (FW) to value-added application represents a demanding opportunity in the
circular economy. As one of the approaches, FW hydrothermal carbonization (HTC) delivers …

[HTML][HTML] State of the art in anaerobic treatment of landfill leachate: a review on integrated system, additive substances, and machine learning application

NAF Zamrisham, AMA Wahab, A Zainal, D Karadag… - Water, 2023 - mdpi.com
Leachates from landfills are highly polluted with a considerable content of organic and
inorganic pollutants which pose severe deterioration to environment including soil …

[HTML][HTML] Hydrothermal carbonization of combined food waste: A critical evaluation of emergent products

WA Rasaq, V Thiruchenthooran, K Wirkijowska… - Waste Management, 2024 - Elsevier
Hydrothermal carbonization (HTC) increasingly appears as an eco-friendly method for
managing food waste (FW). In this work, a combination of FW was subjected to HTC, and …

Application of Composts' Biochar as Potential Sorbent to Reduce VOCs Emission during Kitchen Waste Storage

J Rosik, J Łyczko, Ł Marzec, S Stegenta-Dąbrowska - Materials, 2023 - mdpi.com
It is expected that due to the new European Union regulation focus on waste management,
managing kitchen waste will become more important in the future, especially in households …

Direct interspecies electron transfer mechanisms of a biochar-amended anaerobic digestion: a review

MT Valentin, G Luo, S Zhang, A Białowiec - Biotechnology for Biofuels and …, 2023 - Springer
This paper explores the mechanisms of biochar that facilitate direct interspecies electron
transfer (DIET) among syntrophic microorganisms leading to improved anaerobic digestion …