Significant high levels of available waste tires in Brazil, which reached approximately 473 thousand tons in 2015, offer an attractive potential for their use as fuel in advanced thermal conversion processes. Technologies ...

Aquaculture production has been exponentially growing worldwide, which reflects in the generation of increasing amounts of waste materials. When poorly managed or disposed inadequately, aquaculture-derived wastes can compose ...

The olive oil production process by the two-phase centrifugal system generates a waste named “alperujo”, which has a high percentage of water (65%) and contains phenolic compounds. These compounds are phytotoxic and pollute ...

This study addresses the degassing of expanded polystyrene (EPS) using waste cooking oil (WCO) to produce a recycled EPS with potential use as construction material. Morphological, chemical and mechanical tests were ...

Citrus crops are among the most abundant crops in the world, which processing is mainly based on juice extraction, generating large amounts of effluents with properties that turn them into potential pollution sources if ...

This study assesses the environmental impact and the potential valorization of metal-sludge waste generated by the active neutralization of extremely metal-polluted acid mine drainage (AMD). To this end, two regulated ...

For decades the construction industry has been focused on developing new materials for minimizing environmental impact and improving the building insulation envelope. The use of certain wastes as additives for construction ...

Considering the importance of bio-wastes thermo-chemical conversion to fuel and platform molecules, three types of zeolites (ZSM-5, Beta and Y) were tested as heterogeneous catalysts. Peanut shell is a high volume agricultural ...