Browsing Chemical Engineering by Subject "Life cycle assessment"
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Biohydrogen production from lignocellulosic biomass: Technology and sustainability
( MDPI AG , 2015 , Article)Among the various renewable energy sources, biohydrogen is gaining a lot of traction as it has very high efficiency of conversion to usable power with less pollutant generation. The various technologies available for the ... -
Electrofuels as emerging new green alternative fuel: A review of recent literature
( Elsevier Ltd , 2022 , Article Review)The transportation sector is a major contributor in global emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG). Vital measures should be taken in order to reduce the GHG, among these measures is using electrofuels. Electrofuels are produced ... -
Life cycle assessment of a microbial desalination cell for sustainable wastewater treatment and saline water desalination
( Elsevier Ltd , 2018 , Article)Microbial desalination cells (MDCs), with bifunctional capacity to simultaneously treat wastewater and desalinate seawater at low energy consumption, have attracted great attention in recent years. However, the environmental ... -
Life cycle assessment of osmotic microbial fuel cells for simultaneous wastewater treatment and resource recovery
( Springer Verlag , 2019 , Article)Purpose An osmotic microbial fuel cell (OsMFC) is derived from the integration of a forward osmosis (FO) membrane into a conventional microbial fuel cell (MFC), with enhanced performance in bioelectricity generation from ... -
Life cycle environmental impact comparison of bioelectrochemical systems for wastewater treatment
( Elsevier B.V. , 2019 , Conference Paper)Bioelectrochemical systems (BESs) are developed to transform the energy harvested from the biomass into electricity. Different types of BESs including microbial fuel cell (MFC), microbial electrolysis cell (MEC), and ...