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Feature Review Papers in the Section ‘Green Sustainable Science and Technology’

A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Green Sustainable Science and Technology".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 July 2025 | Viewed by 6433

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Dr. Ning Li

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School of Environmental Science and Egineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300354, China
Interests: functional material; water treatment; adsorption; advanced oxidation; membrane filtration; catalytic process design
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Dear Colleagues, 

This Special Issue, “Feature Review Papers in the section ‘Green Sustainable Science and Technology’”, will collect review papers in all areas of interest related to “Green Sustainability”.

We welcome multidisciplinary research in the following fields:

Solid waste resource utilization; energization; resource recovery; the reuse of water resources; pyrolysis; photocatalysis; electrocatalysis; adsorption; advanced redox; environmental functional materials; carbon capture and utilization.

Dr. Ning Li
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • solid waste resource utilization
  • energization
  • resource recovery
  • reuse of water resources
  • pyrolysis
  • photocatalysis
  • electrocatalysis
  • adsorption
  • advanced redox
  • environmental functional materials
  • carbon capture and utilization

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A Review on Achieving Sustainability in the Petroleum Industry Through the Integration of Lean and Green
by Felister Dibia, Chinedu Dibia, Hom Nath Dhakal, Oghenovo Okpako, Jovana Radulovic and Augustine Isike
Appl. Sci. 2025, 15(5), 2333; https://doi.org/10.3390/app15052333 - 21 Feb 2025
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The petroleum industry has been a key driver in the development of the world economy yet continues to attract increasing criticism due to its negative environmental impact via greenhouse gas emissions, resource inefficiency, and waste. Integrating lean and green practices is fast becoming [...] Read more.
The petroleum industry has been a key driver in the development of the world economy yet continues to attract increasing criticism due to its negative environmental impact via greenhouse gas emissions, resource inefficiency, and waste. Integrating lean and green practices is fast becoming a transformative approach to tackling these issues as it integrates process optimization with sustainability principles. This review paper examined the existing literature on lean and green integration, highlighting its benefits, models, critical success factors, and a roadmap for its implementation. Also, it identified sustainability challenges and offered strategic solutions. The findings showed that integrating lean and green offers potential for both process optimization and waste and carbon footprint reduction, particularly for the petroleum industry in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). This can be achieved by using appropriate tools and models. Sustainable value stream mapping (Sus-VSM) is a strategic tool that highlights the importance of sustainability metrics. These sustainability metrics address the implementation challenges of the convectional value stream mapping tool (VSM). This paper is one of the few initiatives to promote lean–green integration within the petroleum industry. Full article
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Sustainability in Bio-Based Edible Films, Coatings, and Packaging for Small Fruits
by Ivo Oliveira, Teresa Pinto, Sílvia Afonso, Monika Karaś, Urszula Szymanowska, Berta Gonçalves and Alice Vilela
Appl. Sci. 2025, 15(3), 1462; https://doi.org/10.3390/app15031462 - 31 Jan 2025
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Sustainability in bio-based edible films, coatings, and packaging integrates environmental, economic, and social sustainability using renewable resources. These materials offer an eco-friendly alternative to traditional petroleum-based plastics and can extend the shelf life of fruits. The wine industry’s by-products, rich in bioactive compounds, [...] Read more.
Sustainability in bio-based edible films, coatings, and packaging integrates environmental, economic, and social sustainability using renewable resources. These materials offer an eco-friendly alternative to traditional petroleum-based plastics and can extend the shelf life of fruits. The wine industry’s by-products, rich in bioactive compounds, can create bio-based films and coatings. However, some challenges and limitations may occur. Producing bio-based films and coatings on a commercial scale can be challenging, requiring significant investment in research and development. While bio-based materials offer many benefits, they may not always match synthetic plastics’ mechanical strength and barrier properties. However, ongoing research is actively working to improve the functionality and durability of these materials, offering hope for the future. Bio-based materials can be more expensive to produce than conventional plastics, which may limit their widespread adoption without economic incentives or subsidies. Therefore, this review, which aims to provide a literature review about the benefits, challenges, and prospects of the sustainability offered using bio-based edible films, coatings, and packaging, particularly in small fruits and grapevine by-products, is important in the field. Full article
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Use of Mineral Waste for the Production of Artificial Aggregates
by Katarzyna Nowińska, Bartłomiej Grzesik, Magdalena Kokowska-Pawłowska and Jacek Nowak
Appl. Sci. 2024, 14(24), 11734; https://doi.org/10.3390/app142411734 - 16 Dec 2024
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Mineral waste represents the largest group of industrial waste, which constitutes a serious environmental and economic problem. This paper presents the phase and chemical susceptibility to leaching of coal mining wastes, steel and iron production slags, and non-ferrous metallurgical slags. These wastes, because [...] Read more.
Mineral waste represents the largest group of industrial waste, which constitutes a serious environmental and economic problem. This paper presents the phase and chemical susceptibility to leaching of coal mining wastes, steel and iron production slags, and non-ferrous metallurgical slags. These wastes, because of their properties, are used for the production of artificial aggregates. A detailed description of the slags’ properties (chemical and phase composition, technical characteristics, and releasability of constituents to the aquatic and soil environment) allows applications for such waste to be sought, which is beneficial for environmental and economic reasons. Coal mining wastes, slags from iron and steel production, and non-ferrous metallurgical slags are characterized by a variable chemical and phase composition, dominated by components with a relatively low degree of leaching, i.e., silicates, carbonates, sulphates, and intermetallic compounds. Therefore, these wastes are widely used for the production of artificial aggregates, perfectly meeting the requirements of the circular economy policy. Full article
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Circular Economy for Transport Infrastructure: An Overview of the Sustainable Use of Recycled Asphalt Shingles in Asphalt Mixtures
by Marco Pasetto, Safeer Haider and Emiliano Pasquini
Appl. Sci. 2024, 14(22), 10145; https://doi.org/10.3390/app142210145 - 6 Nov 2024
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In North America and Europe, asphalt shingle waste created during the installation of roofing membranes and tear-off shingles retrieved at the end of the membrane’s life cycle are two major sources of municipal solid waste. Since almost 15–35% of recycled asphalt shingles (RAS) [...] Read more.
In North America and Europe, asphalt shingle waste created during the installation of roofing membranes and tear-off shingles retrieved at the end of the membrane’s life cycle are two major sources of municipal solid waste. Since almost 15–35% of recycled asphalt shingles (RAS) consist of an asphalt binder, the effective recycling of RAS into asphalt mixtures could also allow a reduction in the consumption of non-renewable resources such as asphalt binders. In this context, several studies investigating the use of RAS in asphalt mixtures can be found in the literature, although they exhibit widespread and sometimes conflicting information about the investigated materials, the mix preparation and testing methodologies and the experimental findings. Given this background, this review paper aims at summarizing the existing information and research gaps, providing a synthetic and rational picture of the current literature, where similar attempts cannot be found. In particular, different research studies show that the use of RAS in asphalt mixtures is an economical as well as an eco-friendly option. RAS with up to 20% by weight of binder or 5% by weight of aggregate/mixtures (eventually in combination with 15% reclaimed asphalt pavement aggregate) were found to be relatively suitable to improve the performance properties of asphalt mixtures, both in the laboratory and in the field. Adding RAS to asphalt mixtures could enhance their stiffness, strength and rutting resistance (i.e., high-temperature properties), while negatively affecting the mixtures’ fatigue and thermal cracking resistance. However, the addition of specific biomaterials (e.g., bio-binders, bio-oils) or additives to asphalt mixtures can mitigate such issues, resulting in lower brittleness and shear susceptibilities and thus improving the anti-cracking performance. On the other hand, the literature review revealed that several aspects still need to be studied in detail. As an example, RAS-modified porous asphalt mixtures (fatigue, rutting, moisture susceptibility and thermal cracking) need specific research, and there are no comprehensive research studies on the effects of the RAS mixing time, size and mixing temperature in asphalt mixtures. Moreover, the addition of waste cooking/engine oils (biomaterials) as asphalt binder rejuvenators in combination with RAS represents an attractive aspect to be studied in detail. Full article
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