Deployment of Green Technologies for Sustainable Environment III

A special issue of Environments (ISSN 2076-3298).

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Dear Colleagues,

To simultaneously solve the dilemmas of energy demand, waste management, and greenhouse gas emissions for communities worldwide, the development and deployment of green technologies should be a viable step towards environmental sustainability. The development of green technology could reduce carbon dependency, promote resource and energy efficiency, and lessen environmental degradation. This would result in the improvement of human well-being and social equity, while significantly reducing environmental risks and ecological scarcities, placing the Sustainable Development Goals within reach. The scope of green technologies includes green agriculture, green tourism, green building, green transportation, green energy, green infrastructure (engineered natural systems), and green water treatment, to name a few.

This Special Issue will collect original research and critical reviews on recent advances in the deployment of green technologies for a sustainable environment. The primary areas of interest of this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, (1) green agriculture for sustainable material management; (2) waste-to-energy and -resource supply chain, such as the (co-)anaerobic digestion of agricultural and/or organic wastes for a circular bioeconomy; (3) green infrastructure and/or engineered natural systems for nutrient control; (4) green separation technologies for the recovery of value-added resources; (5) smart technology for real-time monitoring, control, and assessment; and (6) strategic management by optimizing the utilization efficiency of food, energy, land, and/or water resources.

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Dr. Shu-Yuan Pan
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Keywords

  • green agriculture
  • green tourism
  • green building
  • green transportation
  • green energy
  • green infrastructure (engineered natural systems)
  • advanced water treatment
  • smart technology
  • waste biorefining for circular bioeconomy
  • food, water, energy, and land nexus

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Microplastic and Nanoplastic Particle Isolation from Liquid and Biological Samples via Mini-Extruder Filtration (MEF)
by Abigail Hall, Luis F. Cardona Polo, Kennedy Helms, Alexei Christodoulides and Nathan J. Alves
Environments 2024, 11(8), 180; https://doi.org/10.3390/environments11080180 - 21 Aug 2024
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Microplastic pollution poses an increasing environmental and human health risk and additional techniques are needed to facilitate nondestructive, quantitative particle recovery and analysis. Using a mini-extruder filtration (MEF) device, the efficiency of pristine particle capture from solution and digested biological tissue (blood clots) [...] Read more.
Microplastic pollution poses an increasing environmental and human health risk and additional techniques are needed to facilitate nondestructive, quantitative particle recovery and analysis. Using a mini-extruder filtration (MEF) device, the efficiency of pristine particle capture from solution and digested biological tissue (blood clots) was assessed. Polystyrene particles in both the submicron (100, 300, and 500 nm) and micron range (2, 5, 7, and 10 µm) with aminated, carboxylated, or unmodified surface modifications were explored. The MEF-isolated-particle recovery was analyzed pre- and postseparation isolation and quantified via a Nanosight LM10 particle tracking system (submicron particles) or hemacytometer (micron particles). Particles’ surface chemistry and concentration did not impact recovery compared to unfiltered samples with smaller particle sizes reducing recovery efficiency. Micron particle size recovery averaged 86.8 ± 4.3% across all surface chemistries at the same concentration; however, submicron particle recoveries varied by size and charge with 500 nm exhibiting recoveries of 80.6 ± 16.6%, 300 nm 73.0 ± 10.4%, and 100 nm particles 17.0 ± 10.3%. The mini-extruder device, used as a filtration recovery system, efficiently captures 10 to 0.5 µm particles from environmental and tissue samples making it an effective and low-cost platform facilitating the nondestructive capture of diverse microplastics for subsequent analysis. Full article
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