Sustainable and efficient technologies for removal and recovery of toxic and valuable metals from wastewater: Recent progress, challenges, and future perspectives

A Abidli, Y Huang, ZB Rejeb, A Zaoui, CB Park - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
Due to their numerous effects on human health and the natural environment, water
contamination with heavy metals and metalloids, caused by their extensive use in various …

A critical review: emerging bioeconomy and waste-to-energy technologies for sustainable municipal solid waste management

TH Tsui, JWC Wong - Waste Disposal & Sustainable Energy, 2019 - Springer
Municipal solid waste (MSW) management has emerged as probably the most pressing
issue many governments nowadays are facing. Traditionally, Waste-to-Energy (WtE) is …

Germanium: A review of its US demand, uses, resources, chemistry, and separation technologies

M Patel, AK Karamalidis - Separation and Purification Technology, 2021 - Elsevier
Germanium (Ge) is one of the critical elements of modern technologies, with supply risk,
inefficient production, and increased demand. It is used in high technology applications such …

Recent advances in the recovery of germanium during the zinc refining process

X Geng, Y Liu, W Zhang, L Wang, J Wen… - Chemical Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
Germanium plays an essential role in many high-tech fields because of its excellent
electrical and optical properties. For germanium from primary resources, approximately …

Environmental damage caused by coal combustion residue disposal: A critical review of risk assessment methodologies

M Petrović, Ž Fiket - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
Coal combustion generates almost 40% of world's electricity. However, it also produces 1.1
billion tons of coal combustion residues (CCR) annually, half of which end up in landfills …