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Resources, Volume 10, Issue 8

August 2021 - 13 articles

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Cover Story: The biostimulant effects of two humic-like substances obtained from municipal biowastes on Orange Jasmine potted plants were compared with those provided by a commercial leonardite-based HLS. The application of both biowaste-derived HLS resulted in higher (and faster) growth and ornamental quality traits than those obtained with the commercial product, due to a better nutritional status, higher leaf chlorophylls content, and photosynthetic activity of plants treated with these alternative HLS. These outcomes suggest that biowaste recycling is a sustainable source of biostimulants alternative to agro-chemicals and fossil-based products. View this paper

Articles (13)

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,920 Views
23 Pages

Micro and Macroelements in Honey and Atmospheric Pollution (NW and Central Poland)

  • Małgorzata Gałczyńska,
  • Renata Gamrat,
  • Mateusz Bosiacki,
  • Zofia Sotek,
  • Małgorzata Stasińska and
  • Ireneusz Ochmian

Urban vegetation is generally exposed to high levels of air pollution in airborne particles, with the greatest exposure in the EU being seen in Poland. With the continuing growth of urban populations, there is a need to confirm whether honey produced...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,494 Views
21 Pages

The COVID-19 epidemic surprised economic operators around the world. The very existence of many businesses, and thus jobs, was at stake. However, one year after the WHO declared the outbreak a pandemic, contrary to the pessimistic forecasts of busine...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,847 Views
20 Pages

Coal to Biomass Conversion as a Path to Sustainability: A Hypothetical Scenario at Pego Power Plant (Abrantes, Portugal)

  • Margarida Casau,
  • Diana C. M. Cancela,
  • João C. O. Matias,
  • Marta Ferreira Dias and
  • Leonel J. R. Nunes

Energy consumption is associated with economic growth, but it comes with a toll regarding the environment. Renewable energies can be considered substitutes for fossil fuels and may contribute to reducing the environmental degradation that the world i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,492 Views
19 Pages

Social and economic changes make it necessary to put in a great deal of conscious effort to shift towards a closed-loop economy, where waste provides a source of raw materials. The low level of selective collection of municipal waste poses a challeng...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,237 Views
17 Pages

Comparison of Empirical Models to Predict Viscosity of Secondary Vacuum Gas Oils

  • Dicho S. Stratiev,
  • Svetoslav Nenov,
  • Ivelina K. Shishkova,
  • Rosen K. Dinkov,
  • Kamen Zlatanov,
  • Dobromir Yordanov,
  • Sotir Sotirov,
  • Evdokia Sotirova,
  • Vassia Atanassova and
  • Krassimir Atanassov
  • + 2 authors

This work presents characterization data and viscosity of 34 secondary vacuum gas oils (H-Oil gas oils, visbreaker gas oils, and fluid catalytic cracking slurry oils) with aromatic content reaching up to 100 wt.%. Inter-criteria analysis was employed...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
22 Citations
7,225 Views
16 Pages

Policy Instruments to Encourage the Adoption of Nature-Based Solutions in Urban Landscapes

  • Rita Mendonça,
  • Peter Roebeling,
  • Teresa Fidélis and
  • Miguel Saraiva

Urban landscapes are under great pressure and particularly vulnerable, due to climate change, population growth and economic development. Despite the growing understanding that Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) represent efficient solutions to facilitate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,965 Views
12 Pages

Humic-like substances (HLS) are among the most used biostimulants in agriculture as a means for improving plant growth, nutrient uptake, crop yield, and stress tolerance. HLS derived from municipal biowastes were applied as a substrate drench in orde...

  • Review
  • Open Access
32 Citations
9,212 Views
26 Pages

An Overview of Indicator Choice and Normalization in Raw Material Supply Risk Assessments

  • Christoph Helbig,
  • Martin Bruckler,
  • Andrea Thorenz and
  • Axel Tuma

Supply risk assessments are an integral part of raw material criticality assessments frequently used at the country or company level to identify raw materials of concern. However, the indicators used in supply risk assessments to estimate the likelih...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,108 Views
14 Pages

A wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) can be considered a system where dirty water enters and fresh water (by means of treatment processes) and other co-products such as sludge and biogas exit. Inside the system, typically, the following steps occur: p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,316 Views
21 Pages

This article focuses on the development of a conceptual framework guiding the adoption of biogas technology in selected rural areas of the Limpopo province. The theoretical framing of the study emanated from the critical evaluation of models and work...

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