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Steel is a fundamental structural material; however, its production poses significant environmental challenges, accounting for 4–5% of global carbon dioxide emissions. With an average carbon footprint of 1.9 tons of $C{O}_2$ per ton of steel produce...

This study provides a comprehensive review of molten salt technology, as well as electrochemical and thermochemical processes aimed at hydrogen and syngas production. First, this research illustrates the current types of molten salt mixtures, detaili...

In chemical production processes in China, a huge volume of salt waste is produced, contributing to environmental pollution due to the lack of proper treatment procedures to manage this waste effectively. With the current lack of proper treatment met...

Sustainability and a circular economy (CE) are crucial for the development of society. The CE approach should start by designing new products or processes or retrofitting existing ones to achieve the best efficiency and extend their life cycle. Desig...

The only currently active industrial-scale plant that uses coal mine brines, located in Czerwionka-Leszczyny, uses ZOD (Zakład Odsalania Dębieńsko, the name of the plant’s former owner) technology, based on mechanical vapor compr...

Targeted radionuclide therapy (TRT) is an innovative and flexible approach for treating various forms of cancer, enabling selective delivery of cytotoxic radiation to cancerous cells while minimizing damage to healthy tissue. Although TRT has proven...

Salt stress caused by sodic soils is an important constraint that impacts the production of crucial solanaceous vegetable crops globally. Halotolerant poly-extremophiles rhizobacteria can inhabit hostile environments like salinity, drought, etc. The...

Metallurgical-grade silicon (MG-Si) is an important source material for many industrial applications, including the manufacture of alloys, solar photovoltaics, and electronics. The process to refine raw materials into MG-Si is energy-intensive, with...

Aquaculture ponds and salt pans represent the dominant forms of coastal production spaces along the Jiangsu coast, China; however, their long-term co-evolution and mutual transitions remain poorly understood. To bridge this gap, this study developed...

Background/Objectives: To promote salt reduction before health problems arise, it is important to understand factors associated with reduced-salt product purchasing among consumers with low interest in such products. This study examined psychological...

This study reviews the feasibility of using cultivated mushrooms in the development of salt-reduced meat products. For this purpose, it is important to know the role of salt in meat products in order to develop viable strategies for its substitution....

Salt intake above 5 g/day correlates with prevalence of hypertension and cardiovascular diseases (CVD). CVD, the leading cause of mortality and morbidity in Europe, account for 45% of all deaths, while, in Serbia in 2021, CVD accounted for 47.3%. The...

The Dębieńsko plant in Czerwionka-Leszczyny, Poland, producing evaporated salt from the saline mine water, faces increasing operating costs due to its high energy consumption. To improve the performance of the plant, a two-pass nanofiltrati...

Salt is widely employed in different foods, especially in meat products, due to its very diverse and extended functionality. However, the high intake of sodium chloride in human diet has been under consideration for the last years, because it is rela...

This study investigated and compared the product characteristics of pyrolysis lignin under different catalytic effects resulting from various calcium salts. The pyrolysis of lignin was conducted in a fixed-bed reactor with calcium salt additives, whi...

Salt lakes and the surrounding saline soils distributed across northwestern China and Inner Mongolia impose severe physicochemical corrosion on cement-based concrete. Understanding the corrosion products and mechanisms are crucial scientific and tech...

This work demonstrates laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) applied to a stream of aerosolized salt from molten eutectic LiCl-KCl. We demonstrate analytical capabilities to track fission-product surrogates of Cs, Sr, Pr, and Nd simultaneously,...

The transport of fission products in molten salt reactors has attracted much attention. However, few codes can completely describe the transport characteristic, though the migration of fission products in the molten salt reactor is essential to estim...

Based on productivity and efficiency indicators, we investigated the performance of the Brazilian oil and gas exploration industry, comparing the performance of this sector with other industrial sectors. We associate productivity with the concept of...

Meat products are a staple of many diets around the world, but they have been subject to criticism due to their potential negative impact on human health. In recent years, there has been a growing interest in developing novel approaches to improve th...

The capture and utilization of carbon dioxide (CO₂) from CO₂-rich off-gas streams play a vital role in mitigating carbon emissions. Chemical absorption, as a well-established and commercially deployed CO₂ capture technology, has attracted sustained r...

Landsat images from 1979, 1988, 1999, 2008, and 2013 were used to analyze the landscape area change of salt pans lying on the coast of Tianjin. While initially (1979–1988), the area of Tianjin’s salt pan increased, later (1988–2013) it declined drama...

The reduction of sodium chloride (NaCl) content, commonly known as salt, in processed meat products is one of the objectives of health organizations and government authorities to achieve healthier products. This reformulation of traditional meat prod...

Seeding nanoparticles in molten salts has been shown recently as a promising way to improve their thermo-physical properties. The prospect of such technology is of interest to both academic and industrial sectors in order to enhance the specific heat...

Tungsten is one of the critical materials with important applications in many areas. Electrolysis of Na₂WO₄-based salt is a short and green process for the production of tungsten metal and alloys. The conventional process for producing Na₂WO₄ is expe...

The contents of free and protein-bound advanced glycation end-products (AGEs) including N^ε-carboxymethyllysine (CML) and N^ε-carboxyethyllysine (CEL), along with glyoxal (GO), methylglyoxal (MGO), chemical components, and salt in comme...

In this study, the potential use of Epsom salt production waste as a supplementary cementitious material was investigated. This acidic waste was neutralized with lime milk and used to replace up to 25 wt.% of Portland cement. The following research m...

Sodium chloride is a chemical compound that humans use in large quantities, both for consumption and for applications in many areas. This article aims to present various aspects of salt: production, health, tourism, cultural, environmental, and final...

Cowpea is the main subsistence crop—protein source—for the Brazilian semi-arid region. The use of salt-stress-tolerant varieties can improve crop yields. We evaluated the effect of irrigation with brackish water on the growth, photosynthe...

The effect of three levels of salinity on physio-biochemical traits in 10 Alcea rosea (hollyhock) varieties were evaluated. It was observed that salt stress increased both the total phenolic content (TPC) and total flavonoid content (TFC) in some var...

Rice-fallow and rice-rice are major cropping systems in the salt affected region of the Ganges Delta covering West Bengal, India and Bangladesh. The dry season rice (Boro) is grown mostly by irrigation from ground water in this water scarce region. B...

Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi (AMF) are widely known to form a symbiosis with most higher plants and enhance plant adaptation to a series of environmental stresses. Sweet sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) is considered a promising alternative...

Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) are a promising technology that can be applied in a bifunctional process in which wastewater treatment is used for renewable electric power generation. In this study, novel transition metal-modified Keggin-type lacunar pol...

Emerging data indicate a correlation between gut microbial composition and cardiovascular disease including hypertension. The host’s diet greatly affects microbial composition and metabolite production. Short chain fatty acids (SCFAs) are produ...

Root developmental plasticity might provide breeders with the opportunity to generate crops with more resistant root system designs to abiotic pressures such as salt stress. The potential influence of diverse root designs in a panel of sorghum variet...

Salt harvesting through natural solar evaporation of salt brines is a practice notably abundant in the Iberian Peninsula. Such activity has been relevant for human consumption, food preservation, livestock feed, and various industries throughout hist...

This study evaluated the effects of reduced glutathione (GSH) application on the production and quality of sour passion fruit irrigated with brackish water in the semi-arid region of Paraíba, Brazil. The experiment was conducted in drainage ly...

Vibrio alginolyticus is a halophilic organism usually found in marine environments. It has attracted attention as an opportunistic pathogen of aquatic animals and humans, but there are very few reports on polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) production using V...

Ham (Jamón) is a product of great value in Spanish gastronomy, although experts have recommended reducing its consumption due to its high salt content and its relationship with cardio-vascular diseases due to the increase in blood pressure it...

Unfavourable environmental conditions, including soil salinity, lead to decreased rice (Oryza sativa L.) productivity, especially at the reproductive stage. In this study, we examined 30 rice varieties, which revealed significant differences in the p...

This study presents an integrated strategy to optimize biofuel production from Chlorella sorokiniana (CSO) and Chlorella vulgaris (CVU) by combining salt-induced stress and thermal pretreatment. The microalgae were cultivated in anaerobic digestate e...

Selenium and its derivatives have been found capable of excellent biological responses. However, the element in its bulk form has low bioavailability and increased toxicity, meaning the production of effective forms with sustainable methods has becom...

Cotton is one of the most exploited crops in the world, being one of the most important for the Brazilian Northeast. In this region, the use of irrigation is often necessary to meet the water demand of the crop. Water is often used from underground w...

Polyamines (PAs) are small aliphatic compounds that participate in the plant response to abiotic stresses. They also participate in nitric oxide (NO) production in plants; however, their role in this process remains unknown. Therefore, the study aime...

Hydrogen is becoming an increasingly important energy carrier in sector integration for fuel cell transportation, heat and electricity. Underground salt caverns are one of the most promising ways to store the hydrogen obtained from water electrolysis...

Table salt is the main source of sodium (Na) in the human diet. Excessive supply of Na in a diet is strongly linked to many non-communicable human diseases, such as hypertension, obesity and stomach cancer. The World Health Organization recommends th...

Salt and seasoning application plays a critical role in flavor and product consistency in industrial food manufacturing; however, manual recovery of excess salt limits both hygiene and process efficiency. In this study, a closed-loop salt dispensing...

To obtain structurally novel and bioactive natural compounds from marine-derived microorganisms, the effect of high salt stress on secondary metabolite production in the marine-derived fungal strain, Spicaria elegans KLA-03, was investigated. The org...

The leakage of the injection–production string is one of the important hidden dangers for the safe and efficient operation of underground salt cavern gas storage. Although distributed fiber optic temperature measurement system (DTS) can accurat...

Salt-affected soil reclamation provides opportunities for crop production and carbon sequestration. In arid regions such as Pakistan, limited studies have been reported involving soil reclamation and crop production under wheat–maize rotation,...