Utilizing 2D materials to enhance H generation efficiency via photocatalytic reforming industrial and solid waste.

Sustainable valorization of industrial and solid wastes by utilizing them as feedstock to generate H via the photocatalytic reforming (PR) process holds great promise. It can also be an effective method to treat solid waste that otherwise would require tedious and expensive processes. This approach has the potential to offer energy solutions and form value-added chemicals.

Gram-scale synthesis of ZnS/NiO core-shell hierarchical nanostructures and their enhanced H production in crude glycerol and sulphide wastewater.

Design and development of the efficient and durable photocatalyst that generates H fuel utilizing industrial wastewater under solar light irradiation is a sustainable process. Innumerable photocatalysts have been reported for efficient H production, but their large-scale production with the same efficiency of H production is a challenging task. In this study, a few gram-scale syntheses of ZnS wrapped with NiO hierarchical core-shell nanostructure via the surfactant-mediated process has been reported.

Upcycling of Wastewater via Effective Photocatalytic Hydrogen Production Using MnO Nanoparticles-Decorated Activated Carbon Nanoflakes.

In the present work, we demonstrated the upcycling technique of effective wastewater treatment via photocatalytic hydrogen production by using the nanocomposites of manganese oxide-decorated activated carbon (MnO-AC). The nanocomposites were sonochemically synthesized in pure water by utilizing MnO nanoparticles and AC nanoflakes that had been prepared through green routes using the extracts of Brassica oleracea and Azadirachta indica, respectively. MnO-AC nanocomposites were confirmed to exist in the form of nanopebbles with a high specific surface area of ~109 m/g.

Predicting the combustion behaviour of compression ignition engine fuelled with biodiesel from Stoechospermum marginatum, a macro algae.

Biodiesel is one among the recent developments in the field of renewable energy research. To enhance the combustion characteristics of compression ignition engine, industry and academicians were working towards clean and renewable energy resource. Algal biodiesel was one of the major research arenas in the recent decade of renewable energy.