A critical review of pretreatment technologies to enhance anaerobic digestion and energy recovery

MR Atelge, AE Atabani, JR Banu, D Krisa, M Kaya… - Fuel, 2020 - Elsevier
Biogas production from different waste resources still has limitations due to its complex
structure and slowly biodegradable nature. To improve methane yield and anaerobic …

Lignocellulosic biomass transformations via greener oxidative pretreatment processes: access to energy and value-added chemicals

W Den, VK Sharma, M Lee, G Nadadur… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Anthropogenic climate change, principally induced by the large volume of carbon dioxide
emission from the global economy driven by fossil fuels, has been observed and …

A critical review on anaerobic digestion of microalgae and macroalgae and co-digestion of biomass for enhanced methane generation

RG Saratale, G Kumar, R Banu, A **a… - Bioresource …, 2018 - Elsevier
Biogas production using algal resources has been widely studied as a green and alternative
renewable technology. This review provides an extended overview of recent advances in …

Food waste valorization: Biofuels and value added product recovery

RY Kannah, J Merrylin, TP Devi, S Kavitha… - Bioresource Technology …, 2020 - Elsevier
Rapid increase in global population and their food ingestion habit plays a major role in
generation of food waste (FW). FW includes some part of cooked and uncooked plant waste …

Pretreatment and co-digestion of wastewater sludge for biogas production: Recent research advances and trends

D Elalami, H Carrere, F Monlau, K Abdelouahdi… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2019 - Elsevier
Currently, sludge is not considered as a waste any more, since it is capable of producing
valuable products. Besides land disposal and thermochemical processes (ie pyrolysis …

Recent advances on food waste pretreatment technology via microalgae for source of polyhydroxyalkanoates

JWR Chong, GY Yew, KS Khoo, SH Ho… - Journal of Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) are biodegradable and biocompatible polyester which are
biosynthesized from the intracellular cells of microalgae through the cultivation of organic …

Biorefinery of spent coffee grounds waste: Viable pathway towards circular bioeconomy

JR Banu, S Kavitha, RY Kannah, MD Kumar… - Bioresource …, 2020 - Elsevier
The circular bioeconomy plan is an innovative research based scheme intended for
augmenting the complete utilization and management of bio-based resources in a …

Nanoparticles augmentation on biogas yield from microalgal biomass anaerobic digestion

AA Zaidi, F RuiZhe, Y Shi, SZ Khan… - International Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
This study evaluates the influence of metal and metal-oxide nanoparticles (NPs) on biogas
production from green microalgae Enteromorpha. The concentration of metallic NPs (Ni, Co) …

Non-ionic surfactant integrated ultrasonic pretreatment on food waste for biomethane production: process optimization and its impact on solubilization

MC Eniyan, M Edwin, JR Banu - Energy Conversion and Management, 2024 - Elsevier
Food waste (FW) can be a suitable substrate for generating biofuels such as biomethane.
The complex polymer structure in FW reduces its biodegradability during anaerobic …

Prospects for biogas production and H2S control from the anaerobic digestion of cattle manure: The influence of microscale waste iron powder and iron oxide …

M Farghali, FJ Andriamanohiarisoamanana… - Waste Management, 2020 - Elsevier
Improving the quality and quantity of biogas usually requires pre-treatment to maximize
methane yields and/or post-treatment to remove H 2 S, which involves considerable energy …