Methane abatement remains a challenge in aftertreatment systems of natural gas engines, currently under discussion in combination with synthetic methane. In this study, Pt/Rh and Pd/Rh-based three-way catalysts are investigated under various transien...
This study analyzed the economic feasibility of utilizing Undaria pinnatifida sporophylls (UPSs), a major by-product of seaweed aquaculture, as feed for Hanwoo cattle. It employed a partial equilibrium framework to quantify processing costs, avoided...
A unique high-throughput approach to identify new catalysts for total oxidation of methane from the exhaust gas of biogas-operated lean-burn engines is presented. The approach consists of three steps: (1) A primary screening using emission-corrected...
Eight rumen additives were chosen for an enteric methane-mitigating comparison study including garlic oil (GO), nitrate, Ascophyllum nodosum (AN), Asparagopsis (ASP), Lactobacillus plantarum (LAB), chitosan (CHI), essential oils (EOs) and 3-nitrooxyp...
The ventilation air–methane (VAM) released from underground mines is often transported into regenerative thermal oxidizer (RTO) devices and burnt into heat energy. This study numerically investigates the scenarios where explosion occurs inside...
Ventilation Air Methane (VAM) refers to the release of fugitive methane (CH4) emissions into the atmosphere during underground coal mining operations. Growing concerns regarding the greenhouse effects of CH4 have led to a worldwide effort in developi...
A series of M(x)CoCeMgAlO mixed oxides with different transition metals (M = Cu, Fe, Mn, and Ni) with an M content x = 3 at. %, and another series of Fe(x)CoCeMgAlO mixed oxides with Fe contents x ranging from 1 to 9 at. % with respect to cations, wh...
This study evaluated multiple commercially available continuous monitoring (CM) point sensor network (PSN) solutions under single-blind controlled release testing conducted at operational upstream and midstream oil and natural gas (O&G) sites. Du...
Ruminants produce approximately 30% of total anthropogenic methane emissions globally. The objective of this manuscript was to review nutritional enteric methane abatement practices for ruminants that are applicable under grazing conditions. A total...
This review covers the current state, challenges, and future directions of catalytic combustion technologies for mitigating fugitive methane emissions from the fossil fuel industry. Methane, a potent greenhouse gas, is released from diverse sources,...
The Australian beef industry is a major contributor to the economy with an estimated annual revenue generation of over seven billion dollars. The tropical state of Queensland accounted for 48% of Australian beef and veal production in 2018. As the th...
Previous studies showed that a series of purified condensed tannins (CTs) from warm-season perennial legumes exhibited high variability in their modulation of methane production during in vitro rumen digestion. The molecular weight differences betwee...
Global emission of methane reached a record high in 2020. Furthermore, it is expected that methane emissions will continue to rise in the coming years despite the economic slowdown stemming from the coronavirus pandemic. Adsorbents can be used to red...
In the Mediterranean region, the disposal of residues of olive oil industries represents an important environmental issue. In recent years, many techniques were proposed to improve the characteristics of these wastes with the aim to use them for meth...
When using liquefied natural gas (LNG) as fuel for shipping, the sulphur emissions are negligible and low NOx and particle emissions can be reached together with lower CO2 emissions compared to diesel-based fuels. The drawback of LNG usage is the unb...
Methane is a strong green gas that has higher GWP. Methane emissions, therefore, form one of the critical focuses within climate change mitigation policy. Indeed, the present study represents a very novel analysis of methane emission within the ESG f...
This article intends to promote the usage of potato peels as efficient substrate for the anaerobic digestion process for energy recovery and waste abatement. This study examined the performance of anaerobic digestion of potato peels in different inoc...
Methane is a greenhouse gas with high warming potential, and ruminants like cattle and sheep are a major source of its emission. In the rumen, the first stomach compartment, diverse microorganisms and fauna live, including archaea, bacteria, protozoa...
The intensification of livestock production, to accommodate rising human population, has led to a higher emission of ammonia into the environment. For the reduction of ammonia emissions, different management steps have been reported in most EU countr...
Measuring soot concentration in a burner flame is essential for an in-depth understanding of the formation mechanism and to abate its generation. This paper presents an improved emission spectroscopy (ES) method that uses an adaptive particle swarm o...
Anthropogenic methane (CH4) emissions lead to global warming and air pollution. China has recently crafted a bottom-up approach to regulate its anthropogenic CH4 emissions; however, emissions during and after the COVID-19 lockdown have not been fully...
The transition to cleaner energy sources, particularly in hard-to-abate industrial sectors, often requires the gradual integration of new technologies. Hydrogen, crucial for decarbonization, is explored as a fuel in blended combustions. Blending or r...
Methane is activated at ambient conditions in a dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) plasma reactor packed with Pd/γ-alumina catalyst containing different loadings of Pd (0.5, 1, 5 wt%). Results indicate that the presence of Pd on γ-alumina...
Water–gas shift (WGS) is an industrial process to tackle CO abatement and H2 upgradation. The syngas (CO and H2 mixture) obtained from steam or dry reformers often has unreacted (from dry reforming) or undesired (from steam reforming) CO2, whic...
The contribution of denitrifying anaerobic methane oxidation (DAMO) as a methane sink across different habitats, especially those affected by anthropogenic activities, remains unclear. Mining and industrial and domestic use of metals/metal-containing...
Ventilation Air Methane (VAM) significantly contributes to global warming. Capturing and mitigating these emissions can help combat climate change. One effective method is the thermal decomposition of methane, but it requires careful control to preve...
Comprehensive evaluation of shale gas resource, which plays a role in energy system optimization, atmospheric environmental cobenefit, and methane risk, has long been ignored in China. This research aims to fill this gap and conduct a study based on...
The present study aims to investigate a Pd catalyst on a complex multi-oxide medium-entropy support interlayer La2O3-CeO2-ZrO2-Al2O3 and its possible use as catalysts for methane abatement applications. The low-temperature N2-adsorption, XRD, TEM, XP...
Livestock farming is a vital component of global food security, yet it remains a major contributor to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, particularly methane (CH4), which has a global warming potential 28 times greater than carbon dioxide (CO2). This re...
Plasma technology is already used in various applications such as surface treatment, surface coating, reforming of carbon dioxide and methane, removal of volatile organic compounds, odor abatement and disinfection, but treatment processes described i...
Elaboration of Pd-supported catalysts for catalytic combustion is, nowadays, considered as an imperative task to reduce the emissions of methane. This study provides new insight into the method of deposition, chemical state of Pd and oxygen storage c...
Methane (CH4) is an important greenhouse gas. There is increasing attention to CH4 abatement strategies because of its contribution to short-term warming and strong benefits of decreasing CH4 emissions. China greenhouse gas inventory methods are used...
Livestock manure is the main source of ammonia (NH3) and greenhouse gases emissions (GHG), which can be reduced by acidifying manure. This work assessed the effect of acidification of cattle slurry using whey on NH3 and GHG emissions during storage,...
Direct-fed microbials (DFM) have emerged as a promising dietary strategy for enteric methane abatement. However, it is unclear whether in vitro studies trialing DFM should use ruminal fluid previously adapted to the DFM of interest or if the DFM can...
Green hydrogen introduction in hard-to-abate processes is held back by the cost of substituting steam reforming plants with electrolyzers. However, green hydrogen can be integrated in properly modified reforming processes. The process proposed here i...
Developing efficient strategies for VOC emission abatement is an urgent task for protection of the environment and human health. Complete catalytic oxidation exhibits advantages, making it an effective, environmentally friendly, and economically prof...
Methane (CH4) from enteric fermentation accounts for 3 to 5% of global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, which contribute to climate change. Cost-effective strategies are needed to reduce feed energy losses as enteric CH4 while improving rumina...
Air pollution in many major cities is endangering public health and is causing deterioration of the environment. Particulate emissions (PM) contribute to air pollution as they carry toxic polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) on their surface. Abatement o...
In the context of an increased interest in the abatement of CO2 emissions generated by industrial activities, CO2 hydrogenation processes show an important potential to be used for the production of valuable compounds (methane, methanol, formic acid,...
This study presents a biophotocatalytic system as a sustainable technology for the recovery of clean water and renewable energy from wastewater, thereby providing a unique opportunity to drive industrialization and global sustainable development thro...
Nitrogen oxides (NOx), pivotal atmospheric pollutants, significantly threaten the environment and human health. The CH4-SCR process, leveraging the abundance and accessibility have methane, emerges as a promising avenue for NOx abatement. Previous st...
Enteric fermentation is one of the largest contributors of methane release to the environment from the livestock sector. Plant bioactive compounds can modulate rumen fermentation for reduced methanogenesis and fatty acid biohydrogenation. The present...
To improve the catalytic performance of an active layered double hydroxide (LDH)-derived CuCeMgAlO mixed oxide catalyst in the total oxidation of methane, it was promoted with different transition-metal cations. Thus, two series of multicationic mixe...
A “Well-to-Propeller” Life Cycle Assessment of maritime transport was performed with a European geographical focus. Four typical types of vessels with specific operational profiles were assessed: a container vessel and a tanker (both with...
A propane combustion catalyst based on Mn and Ce and supported by SBA-15 was prepared by the “two-solvents” method aiming at the possible application in catalytic converters for abatement of alkanes in waste (exhaust) gases. The catalyst...
Despite the extensive research conducted on ruminal methanogens and anti-methanogenic intervention strategies over the last 50 years, most of the currently researched enteric methane (CH4) abatement approaches have shown limited efficacy. This is lar...
This study mapped the bioenergy production from sugarcane vinasse according to the mesoregions of the State of São Paulo (SP), Brazil, assessing the magnitude of biogas-derived electricity and biomethane production and estimating the greenhous...
Urban water systems and, in particular, wastewater treatment facilities are among the major energy consumers at municipal level worldwide. Estimates indicate that on average these facilities alone may require about 1% to 3% of the total electric ener...
Two in vitro experiments were conducted to evaluate the effects of Centella asiatica extract (CAE) supplementation on the rumen’s in vitro fermentation characteristics. In the first experiment, CAE with five concentrations (C: 0%; T1: 3.05%; T2...
The agricultural sector is the largest source for air pollutants of ammonia (NH3) and greenhouse gases (GHGs) of nitrous oxide (N2O) and methane (CH4). Establishing a unified and homologous emission inventory of air pollutants and GHGs is essential f...
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