Showing papers in "Bioresource Technology in 2017"

TL;DR: The economic potential assessment of microalgae biorefinery was evaluated and high-value co-products produced through the extraction of a fraction of algae were evaluated to highlight the feasibility of the process.

TL;DR: An overview about bioremediation for petroleum hydrocarbon pollutants and explanation about hydrocarbon metabolism in microorganisms are provided with a special focus on new insights obtained during past couple of years.

TL;DR: Modification of biochar derived from sawdust shows great potential for simultaneous removal of Cu(II) and tetracycline from co-contaminated water.

TL;DR: This review provides a critical review of current research updates related to the pollutants interaction with surface functional groups of biochars and the effect of the parameters variability on biochar attributes pertinent to specific pollutants removal, involved mechanisms, and competence for these removals.

TL;DR: This review provides an overview on the fate and removal of pharmaceutical compounds via biological treatment process.

TL;DR: Compared with traditional activated carbon, activated biochar appears to be a new potential cost-effective and environmentally-friendly carbon materials with great application prospect in many fields.

TL;DR: This review evaluates various methods to increase the sorption efficiency of biochar including activation with steam, acids and bases and the production ofBiochar-based composites with metal oxides, carbonaceous materials, clays, organic compounds, and biofilms.

TL;DR: A high percentage of aliphatic functional groups for all bio-oils and distribution of products is different due to differences in the composition of agricultural biomass, and the higher area percentages of phenolic compounds were observed in the corn cob bio-oil.

TL;DR: The most common adsorption mechanism can be considered as electron donor-acceptor interactions of electron withdrawing moieties with surface arene rings where the dominant species are zwitterionic or cationic.

TL;DR: It is highlighted that the ratio and strength of Brønsted and Lewis acid in bifunctional catalyst are critical for maximizing HMF production by selective improvement in the kinetics of desirable reactions over undesirable reactions.

TL;DR: This review elucidates the links among catalytic performances, physicochemical properties, and pyrolysis/modification-induced features, advising the tailored production of application-oriented biochar-based catalyst in the future.

TL;DR: This paper summarizes the remediation mechanisms of PAHs and heavy metals by microbes via elucidating the interaction mechanisms of heavy metals with heavy metals, PAH/PAHs metabolites with PAHS and PAH’s withheavy metals.

TL;DR: Waste biorefineries if developed in developing countries could provide energy generation, land savings, new businesses and consequent job creation, savings of landfills costs, GHG emissions reduction, and savings of natural resources of land, soil, and groundwater.

TL;DR: The abiotic and microbial applications of biochars as electron donors, electron acceptors, or electron shuttles for pollutant degradation, metal(loid)s (im)mobilization, nutrient transformation, and discuss the underlying mechanisms are reviewed.

TL;DR: An overview of oil recovery using biosurfactant from Pseudomonas aeruginosa is given and factors affecting rhamnolipid production are described, which gives an overview of surfactant production in ecofriendly and cost effective manner.

TL;DR: The result from SEM-EDAX revealed that the adsorption of metal ions on bioadsorbent was mainly driven by coordination, ion exchange and electrostatic association.

TL;DR: This review aims to provide updated information on the development of algal biochar in terms of the production methods and the characterization of its physical and chemical properties to justify and to expand their potential applications.

TL;DR: The paper presents the effect of biochar on compost maturity indices, composting temperature and moisture, and also on the content and bioavailability of nutrients and of organic and inorganic contaminants.

TL;DR: This paper summarized the currently available review papers on sludge treatments and proposed the research trends based on the points raised therein to optimize treatment performances.

TL;DR: A state-of-art review focusing on the fundamental mechanisms, key microbial players, the role of electrical conductivity, the effectiveness of various conductive additives, the significance of substrate characteristics and organic loading rates in promoting DIET in anaerobic digestion is presented.

TL;DR: The physicochemical properties and yield of biochar through the diverse gasification conditions associated with various types of biomass were extensively evaluated and relevant challenges and solutions were suggested in this review.

TL;DR: The dehydration and pulverization pre-treatment and the addition of phosphoric acid can benefit the formation of those functional groups and hydrothermal carbonization can be a promising method to transfer biomass like fruit peels into biochars with excellent adsorption performance.

TL;DR: This study shows the DESs to be capable of preferentially dissolving lignin at 60°C, andThermogravimetric analysis show DES to be stable at typical biomass processing temperatures.

TL;DR: The silage quality of soybean was improved with the addition of L and M, which could enhance the account of desirable Lactobacillus and inhibit the growth of undesirable microorganism such as Clostridia and Enterobacter.

TL;DR: In this review, cereal residue, fruit and vegetable wastes, grasses and animal manure were selected as the agricultural biomass candidates, and the fundamentals and current state of various pretreatment methods used for AD of these feedstocks were investigated.

TL;DR: The biomass of Urochloa mutica was subjected to thermal degradation analyses to understand its pyrolytic behavior for bioenergy production and it is shown that Para grass biomass has considerable bioenergy potential comparable to established bioenergy crops such as switchgrass and miscanthus.

TL;DR: Various mechanical, chemical and biological cell-disruption methods are discussed in detail and compared based on microalgal species and status (wet/dried), scale, energy consumption, efficiency, solvent extraction, and synergistic combinations.

TL;DR: Graphene-based DIET can sustained a much higher electron transfer flux than conventional hydrogen transfer and the ethanol degradation constant was accordingly improved by 29.1% in the presence of graphene.

TL;DR: This review highlights the recent technological progress, enzymes involved and genetic as well as metabolic engineering approaches towards sustainable hydrogen production from microalgae.

TL;DR: A state-of-the art review on recent research activities in pyrolysis characteristics and kinetics of various microalgae, includingThermogravimetric analysis, and common kinetic models predicting the thermal degradation ofmicroalgae are examined.