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Clean Technologies, Volume 2, Issue 4

December 2020 - 10 articles

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Articles (10)

  • Review
  • Open Access
28 Citations
14,974 Views
13 Pages

Hydrogen Is Promising for Medical Applications

  • Shin-ichi Hirano,
  • Yusuke Ichikawa,
  • Bunpei Sato,
  • Fumitake Satoh and
  • Yoshiyasu Takefuji

16 December 2020

Hydrogen (H2) is promising as an energy source for the next generation. Medical applications using H2 gas can be also considered as a clean and economical technology. Since the H2 gas based on electrolysis of water production has potential to expand...

  • Review
  • Open Access
18 Citations
7,051 Views
16 Pages

Solvolysis of Kraft Lignin to Bio-Oil: A Critical Review

  • Abraham Castro Garcia,
  • Shuo Cheng and
  • Jeffrey S. Cross

14 December 2020

Lignin, a component of lignocellulosic biomass, is abundant and is produced extensively as a waste product of the Kraft pulping process, lignin obtained from this process is called Kraft lignin (KL). Lignin’s three-dimensional structure compose...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,680 Views
21 Pages

11 December 2020

Carbon capture and utilization (CCU) is the process of capturing unwanted carbon dioxide (CO2) and utilizing for further use. CCU offers significant potential as part of a sustainable circular economy solution to help mitigate the impact of climate c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
6,526 Views
16 Pages

Agro Waste Sugarcane Bagasse as a Cementitious Material for Reactive Powder Concrete

  • Selvadurai Sebastin,
  • Arun Kumar Priya,
  • Alagar Karthick,
  • Ravishankar Sathyamurthy and
  • Aritra Ghosh

7 December 2020

In the field of advanced concrete science, the construction industry has risen to great heights. Due to its own characterisation, the manufacturing cost of reactive powder concrete (RPC) is very high. This can be minimised by substituting the compone...

  • Review
  • Open Access
29 Citations
9,061 Views
14 Pages

20 November 2020

Chromogenic materials and devices include a wide range of technologies that are capable of changing their spectral properties according to specific external stimuli. Several studies have shown that chromogenics can be conveniently used in building fa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,362 Views
15 Pages

9 November 2020

Sustainable green biofuels could replace a significant amount of fossil fuels responsible for environmental pollution. In this study, waste cooking oil (WCO) was tested in a diesel engine either neat or blended separately with diesel, butanol and gas...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
33 Citations
5,475 Views
7 Pages

16 October 2020

The political goal of the European Union is to transform into a prosperous, modern, competitive and climate-neutral economy by 2050. To accelerate this transition, the European Commission has presented a European Green Deal in 2019. The aim is to red...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,158 Views
18 Pages

Open-Eco-Innovation for SMEs with Pan-European Key Enabling Technology Centres

  • Faruk Civelek,
  • Romit Kulkarni,
  • Karl-Peter Fritz,
  • Tanja Meyer,
  • Costas Troulos,
  • Thomas Guenther and
  • André Zimmermann

13 October 2020

The project “key enabling technologies for clean production” (KET4CP), which is supported by the European Commission, has the aim to connect small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) and Technology Centres (TC) for cleaner, greener and mor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,704 Views
14 Pages

The Life Cycle Assessment methodology has proven to be effective in evaluating the impacts of goods production throughout their life cycle. While many studies are available on specific products, in recent years a growing interest is related to the an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,733 Views
16 Pages

Development of a Low-Cost Experimental Procedure for the Production of Laboratory Samples of Torrefied Biomass

  • Leonel J. R. Nunes,
  • Jorge M. C. Ribeiro,
  • Letícia C. R. Sá,
  • Liliana M. E. F. Loureiro,
  • Radu Godina and
  • João C. O. Matias

Currently, the search for alternative sources of energy is not only due to the scarcity of non-renewable sources, since these still have an availability capable of meeting actual consumption needs, but also due to the negative environmental impacts t...

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