Showing papers in "Journal of Cleaner Production in 2019"

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the preparation, characterization, modification, and especially environmental application of biochar, based on more than 200 papers published in recent 10 year, to provide an overview of Biochar with a particular on its environmental application.

TL;DR: A review of approaches for business model innovation for circular economy and/or sustainability, based on a systematic review of academic literature and practitioner-based methodologies, is presented in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, different hydrogen production sources and systems and some hydrogen storage options are comparatively investigated in detail, and economic, environmental, social, and technical performance and reliability of the selected options are compared in detail.

TL;DR: In this article, a literature review and techno-economic analyses of state-of-the-art CO2 direct air capture (DAC) technologies are performed, wherein, DAC technologies are categorised as high temperature aqueous solutions (HT DAC) and low temperature solid sorbent (LT DAC) systems, from an energy system perspective.

TL;DR: This study enriches the literature by giving a first need-driven taxonomy of C-indicators, and provides a synthesis and clarification to the emerging and must-needed research theme of CE, and sheds some light on remaining key challenges like their effective uptake by industry.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors determined the dynamic linkages between globalization, financial development and carbon emissions in Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) countries in the presence of energy intensity and economic growth under the framework of Environment Kuznets Curve (EKC).

TL;DR: In this paper, state-of-the-art on spent lithium-ion battery recycling is discussed with emphasis on lithium recovery, and the possibility for industrial realization of each method is evaluated.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the effects of environmental regulation and innovation on the carbon emission reduction of OECD countries during the period 1999-2014 and developed a new model called "stochastic impacts by regression on population, affluence, regulation and technology" (STIRPART) to extend the analysis on the evaluation of factors influencing carbon emissions.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the association between foreign direct investment (FDI) and carbon emissions for the Middle East and North African (MENA) region in 1990-2015, including biomass energy consumption as an additional determinant of carbon emissions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the long-term output elasticities between renewable energy consumption and non-renewable energy consumption in Asia-pacific economic cooperation (APEC) countries.

TL;DR: A systematic literature review of articles focused on sustainable supply chain management in global supply chains and applying structured content analysis to * mentioned articles spanning 15 years of research published in English-language, peer-reviewed journals is presented in this article.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a positioning framework for measuring and assessing the circularity degree of a company, based on a systematic literature review, which are the existing CE performance assessment methods proposed in literature.

TL;DR: A review of the literature on CSCM is presented in this paper, where the authors classify various terminologies related to supply chain sustainability and conceptualize a unifying definition of CSCMs.

TL;DR: In this article, the structural analysis of GA-cl-poly(AAm)/Ni(OH)2/FeOOH NCH was performed by employing diverse modern analytical instrumentations such as transmission electron microscopy (TEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR).

TL;DR: In this paper, the development and advancements of electrode and membrane materials for increasing the microbial fuel cell performances in recent years have been discussed and reviewed and discussed the different categories of electrode (anode and cathode) materials with various structural, dimensional, compositions and integrations.

TL;DR: In this article, the main treatment factors found to be affected by substrate were waste-to-biomass conversion ratio, larval development time and final prepupal weight.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors constructed the indexes of urbanization and environmental pollution based on the existing literature, used the analytic hierarchy process, entropy method and the principle of minimum information entropy to obtain the subjective, objective and comprehensive weights of the evaluation indexes respectively, and took BTHUA as an example to study the effects of urbanisation elements and subsystems on environmental pollution from 2000 to 2015 by using geographically and temporally weighted regression model.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide an extensive analysis of the literature on technological, economic, and environmental aspects for clean-hydrogen production, highlighting the recent advances and developments found in the literature.

TL;DR: In this paper, a framework of drivers and barriers for circular economy is introduced, including seven distinct areas: environmental, economic, social, political and institutional, technological and informational, supply chain, and organizational factors.

TL;DR: A review of the literature on innovations that can lead to transformations in individuals, organizations, supply chains, and communities toward a sustainable future can be found in this paper, where the diversity of innovation for sustainable development in the literature, proposes a typology of such a phenomenon, and identifies a series of recommendations for the future development of the field.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the country-level institutional factors related to the decision to address the sustainable development goals in sustainability reports and found that organizations reporting on the Sustainable Development Goals are more likely to be located in countries with higher levels of climate change vulnerability, national corporate social responsibility, company spending on tertiary education, indulgence and individualism, and lower levels of market coordination, employment protection, power distance and long-term orientation.

TL;DR: This research conducted a review of the scientific literature relative to CE and proposed operational principles which join the theoretical goals of CE within the sustainable development framework to practical strategies of implementation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors highlight strategies to improve the activity of conventional semiconductor photocatalysts via coupling with carbon quantum dots (CQDs) and suggest research directions to address challenges such as the inadequate separation of photoinduced charge carriers.

TL;DR: In this paper, a comprehensive literature review of coal gangue utilization in building material production, energy generation, soil improvement and other high-added applications, analyzes the worldwide dynamics of the studies on coalgangue utilization and identifies the potential environmental risks in various pathways.

TL;DR: A novel bio-inspired optimization method developed by extending the original salp swarm algorithm with multiple independent salp chains, thus it can implement a wider exploration and a deeper exploitation under the memetic computing framework.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide an overview of current technologies, strategic innovations, and monitoring tools in Solid Waste Management (SWM), providing an overview on prevailing waste management scenarios across different countries and identifying the roles of life cycle assessment (LCA) and other modeling tools in SWM.

TL;DR: In this paper, the mesoporous silica and ligand embedded composite adsorbent were characterized to understand ordered porosity in the frameworks and the composite was protonated before going to start the adsorption by using 2.0 mM HCl.

TL;DR: In this paper, the role of knowledge management in green innovation and corporate sustainable development (CSD) activities is examined, and it is found that knowledge management has a significant positive impact on CSD.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors highlight up-to-date methods for the removal of heavy metals from water using the technique of adsorption, focusing on one particular technique, involving carbon nanotubes (CNTs).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the advantages of the introduction of the SDGs into teaching and suggest that it can catalyse the engagement of students in Higher Education Institutions (HEI) with the concepts of sustainability.