The sustainability of petroleum-based fuel supply has gained broad attention from the global
community due to the increase of usage in various sectors, depletion of petroleum …

Bio-fuels are gaining worldwide attention as an alternative fuel option replacing the usage of
the mineral diesel derived from conventional fossil sources. However, the high cost …

A promising solution for the near future is the substitution of non-renewable fossil fuels with
a sustainable liquid feedstock for biofuel (biodiesel) production. The cost of conventional …

Dissolved organic matter (DOM) of sludge is a heterogeneous mixture of high to low
molecular weight organic substances which is including proteinaceous compounds …

Specifically, human activities, such as those in industry and transportation, have resulted in
an increase in the demand for fossil fuels, resulting in severe environmental problems …

Treatments for and methods of disposing of municipal sewage sludge have a limited ability
to produce high-value products. The number of studies on using sludge for energy recovery …

The disposal of excess biological sewage sludge from wastewater treatment is a growing
environmental issue due to the vast quantities generated worldwide. For many years, sludge …

In this work, a novel industrial configuration for the lipid extraction from sewage sludge was
proposed. In detail, respect to conventional scheme based on direct extraction of lipids from …

Sewage sludge has potential use as a feedstock source for biodiesel production, but
pretreatment such as drying it before the conversion has made it an uneconomical process …

The high energy consumption in Iran, particularly in the transportation sector, has
contaminated large cities and jeopardized the society health. Therefore, in this study …