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Lucas de Lima Casseres dos Santos, Jean Bruno Melo Silva, Luisa Soares Neves, Natalia dos Santos Renato, Julia Moltó, Juan Antonio Conesa and Alisson Carraro Borges
The scarcity of natural resources makes it essential to develop products that meet environmental requirements. This is also true for the water and wastewater treatment business, where even consolidated processes, such as coagulation and flocculation, mus...
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S. Sayanthan, Hassimi Abu Hasan and Siti Rozaimah Sheikh Abdullah
Floating aquatic macrophytes have a high level of proficiency in the removal of various contaminants, particularly nutrients, from wastewater. Due to their rapid growth rates, it is imperative to ensure the safe removal of the final biomass from the syst...
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Ferhat Karaca, Aidana Tleuken, Rocío Pineda-Martos, Sara Ros Cardoso, Daniil Orel, Rand Askar, Akmaral Agibayeva, Elena Goicolea Güemez, Adriana Salles, Huseyin Atakan Varol and Luis Braganca
Due to its intricate production processes, complex supply chains, and industry-specific characteristics, the construction industry faces unique challenges in adopting circular economy (CE) principles that promote resource equity. To address this issue, t...
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Paulo Santos, Génesis Camila Cervantes, Alicia Zaragoza-Benzal, Aimee Byrne, Ferhat Karaca, Daniel Ferrández, Adriana Salles and Luís Bragança
Building construction accounts for a significant proportion of global greenhouse gas emissions, raw material extraction, and waste production. Applying circular economy (CE) principles in the building construction industry would considerably reduce these...
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Genesis Camila Cervantes Puma, Adriana Salles, Janez Turk, Viorel Ungureanu and Luís Bragança
This research explores sustainable construction practices focusing on material reuse, specifically reclaimed structural steel and slag. In general, the building stock is not designed for deconstruction, and material recovery for reuse at the end of life ...
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Miguel Suffo, Celia Pérez-Muñoz, Gonzalo Alba and María Pilar Villar
In the wine bottling process, thermoplastics are commonly used to manufacture the crown of cork stoppers. The production of agglomerated cork stoppers generates a type of waste called cork powder (CoP) in large volumes with known properties but which are...
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Fernanda Paes de Barros Gomide, Luís Bragança and Eloy Fassi Casagrande Junior
The construction sector stands as the predominant consumer of cement, steel, and plastic and is accountable for a substantial 55% of industrial carbon emissions. Greenhouse gases and other forms of pollution linked to the housing sector significantly con...
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Alexios Lolas, Aikaterini Molla, Konstantinos Georgiou, Chrysoula Apostologamvrou, Alexandra Petrotou and Konstantinos Skordas
Mussel shells, with their calcium carbonate content, serve as a natural pH buffer, aiding in neutralizing acidic soils and, consequently, enhancing nutrient availability for plants. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of treating soils with ...
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Gianluigi Farru, Fabiano Bisinella Scheufele, Daniela Moloeznik Paniagua, Fritz Keller, Changyoon Jeong and Daniele Basso
This study assesses the status of hydrothermal carbonization (HTC) technology and identifies barriers hindering its commercial viability. Conducting a global survey among HTC companies (with a total of 24 surveys sent), the research evaluates the current...
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Razvan Daniel Zota, Ionu? Alexandru Cîmpeanu, Denis Alexandru Dragomir and Mihai Adrian Lungu
Sustainable development, smart waste management, and circular economy principles are paramount to the significant worldwide trend of smart city-related research and projects. The basic hypothesis of our research is that artificial intelligence (AI)-based...
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