Life cycle assessment of food waste to energy and resources: Centralized and decentralized anaerobic digestion with different downstream biogas utilization

H Tian, X Wang, EY Lim, JTE Lee, AWL Ee… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Anaerobic digestion (AD) has been identified as an efficient food waste disposal technology
by many researchers. However, a holistic environmental investigation of different AD …

[HTML][HTML] Allocation methods in life cycle assessments (LCAs) of agri-food co-products and food waste valorization systems: Systematic review and recommendations

DD Aldama, F Grassauer, Y Zhu… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Food waste represents one of the major problems in the food industry, as it accounts for
substantial social, economic, and environmental challenges due to the waste of resources …

[HTML][HTML] Opportunities and challenges in the anaerobic co-digestion of municipal sewage sludge and fruit and vegetable wastes: A review

A Azevedo, N Lapa, M Moldão, E Duarte - Energy Nexus, 2023‏ - Elsevier
To overcome the anthropogenic impacts resulting from the constant growth of the world
population, industries like wastewater treatment plants and food processing must be …

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] Anaerobic digestion for producing renewable energy—the evolution of this technology in a new uncertain scenario

CA Sevillano, AA Pesantes, E Peña Carpio… - Entropy, 2021‏ - mdpi.com
Anaerobic digestion is a well-known technology with wide application in the treatment of
high-strength organic wastes. The economic feasibility of this type of installation is usually …

[HTML][HTML] Techno-economic assessment of chp systems in wastewater treatment plants

DM Riley, J Tian, G Güngör-Demirci, P Phelan… - Environments, 2020‏ - mdpi.com
Wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) utilization of combined heat and power (CHP) systems
allows for the efficient use of on-site biogas production, as well as increased annual savings …

Biorefining within food loss and waste frameworks: A review

RE Jones, RE Speight, JL Blinco, IM O'Hara - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Biorefining food loss and waste (FLW) to produce bioenergy or bioproducts is an attractive
waste management option with potential economic and environmental benefits. This paper …

Life cycle assessment and cost-benefit analysis of small-scale anaerobic digestion system treating food waste onsite under different operational conditions

H Tian, AWL Ee, M Yan, YW Tiong, W Tan, Q Tan… - Bioresource …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
This study employed life cycle assessment and cost-benefit analysis to evaluate the
environmental and economic profile of a real decentralized small-scale anaerobic digestion …

Current status on utilizing a life cycle system perspective to evaluate renewable energy production systems for achieving UN SDGs

AWL Ee, JTE Lee, H Tian, EY Lim, M Yan… - Resources …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Increased awareness of environmental issues and climate change leads to a proportional
increase in research and development of “greener” technologies pertaining to renewable …

[HTML][HTML] Fruit and vegetable wholesale market waste: Safety and nutritional characterisation for their potential re-use in livestock nutrition

DEA Tedesco, S Scarioni, A Tava, S Panseri, A Zuorro - Sustainability, 2021‏ - mdpi.com
Compared to other food categories, fruits and vegetables are the most wasted. This leads to
the squandering of economic, social, and environmental resources. The reallocation of fruit …