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Food Res Int
February 2025
Food and Nutritional Sciences Program, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, Greensboro, NC, USA. Electronic address:
Chicken processing by-products, such as meat left over on bones, skin, frames and connective tissues, are great sources of functional proteins that offer significant potential for value-added applications, contributing to both waste reduction and environmental sustainability. By transforming the recovered proteins from by-products into hydrogels, new materials can be developed for use in various industries, including food. However, understanding the chemical composition of these by-products and optimizing hydrogel production techniques are critical to producing hydrogels with desirable properties.
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January 2025
Faculty of Exact Sciences and Technology, Federal University of Grande Dourados, Dourados, MS, 79804-970, Brazil. Electronic address:
Transforming lignocellulosic biomass waste into value-added materials like porous carbons offers a sustainable and increasingly important solution for its efficient management within a circular economy framework. Although the heteroatom-doping process enhances oxygen- or nitrogen-containing functionalities on porous carbons, it often leads to losses in structural integrity and other key functionalities. This study presents a novel protocol to produce N-doped porous carbons that efficiently introduces nitrogen groups while improving surface area, microporosity definition and the concentration of oxygen-containing functionalities.
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January 2025
Department of Chemistry, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, 751 004, Odisha, India.
This research highlights a sustainable approach for the design and synthesis of a magnetic nickel ferrite (NiFeO) catalyst reutilizing industrial waste, specifically iron ore tailing and Raney nickel catalyst processing waste, by simple co-precipitation method. Transforming waste materials into high-performance catalysts, this study aligns with the principles of a circular economy, addressing both environmental waste and pollution. Structural characterization by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and microscopic (FESEM and TEM) revealed the formation of well crystalline nano ferrite with NiFeO nanoparticles with cubic spinel structure.
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January 2025
Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur-721302, WB, India.
At present, plastic pollution is a global environmental catastrophe and a major threat to mankind. Moreover, the increasing manufacture of various plastic products is causing rapid depletion of precious resources. Thus, transforming plastic waste into feedstock, which can maintain a circular economy, has emerged as a significant technique for waste management and carbon resource conservation.
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January 2025
Energy and Sustainability Department (EES), Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), 88905-120, Araranguá, SC, Brazil. Electronic address:
Proper waste management and sustainable energy production are crucial for human development. For this purpose, this study evaluates the impact of blending percentage on energy recovery potential and environmental benefits of co-combustion of wastewater sludge and Brazilian low-rank coal. The sludge and coal were characterised in terms of their potential as fuel and co-combustion tests were carried out in a pilot-scale bubbling fluidised bed focused on the influence of the percentage of sludge mixture on the behaviour of co-combustion with coal in terms of flue gas composition and fluidised bed temperature stability.
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