Showing papers in "Journal of Cleaner Production in 2020"

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a systematic analysis of the sustainability functions of Industry 4.0, including energy sustainability, harmful emission reduction, and social welfare improvement, and show that sophisticated precedence relationships exist among various sustainability functions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the validity of Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis for ecological footprint with the role of renewable energy use, non-renewable energy use and trade openness in 24 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries.

TL;DR: In this paper, a variety of parameters of TiO2-based photocatalysts need to be studied: substrate, light intensity, dopant, particle size, structure, etc.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of recent studies concerned with photocatalytic detoxification of real industrial and municipal wastewater were assembled and critically discussed, such issues as challenges for application of photocatalyst-based wastewater detoxification, feasibility of various toxicity tests, reuse of photocATalysts, cost estimation, etc.

TL;DR: In this article, a perspective review presents the advancement in the processing techniques, characterizations, future scope and methods to overcome the limitations in biofibers, biopolymers, biofilms, and bio composites.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of the inoculation ratios of a Chlorella vulgaris and nitrifier-enriched-activated-sludge (NAS) consortium on nutrient removal, carbon capture, and metabolite generation were investigated under autotrophic conditions.

TL;DR: A comprehensive review of GeoPC material, its constituents, production techniques, curing regimes, properties and its potential applications in the construction industry is presented in this paper, where the authors also present a comprehensive analysis of the potential applications of the material.

TL;DR: In this article, a review highlights the applied protocols to ameliorate the photoactivity of graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4) based nanocomposites through combining with various materials.

TL;DR: The main aim of this paper is to identify blockchain- based solutions for addressing food traceability concerns, highlight the benefits and challenges of blockchain-based traceability systems implementation, and help researchers and practitioners to apply blockchain technology based food Traceability systems by proposing an architecture design framework and suitability application analysis flowchart.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed 30 indicators of a circular economy at the micro level, where the majority of indicators focused on recycling, end-of-life management or remanufacturing, while fewer indicators consider disassembly, lifetime extension, waste management, resource efficiency or reuse.

TL;DR: In this article, the influence of renewable and non-renewable energy consumption, economic growth, and urbanization on a more reliable environmental indicator (ecological footprint) from 1990 to 2016, while controlling for trade.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors have developed a framework to overcome SSCM challenges through industry 4.0 and circular economy based solution measures, which identifies a unique set of 28 sustainability challenges and 22 solution measures and test the applicability of the developed framework through hybrid Best Worst Method (BWM)- ELimination and Choice Expressing Reality (ELECTRE) approach.

TL;DR: In this paper, an integrative review of 239 articles published across Scopus Q1 journals and compiled using an integrated review protocol is presented. But, the authors focus on relatively neglected topics such as dealership experience, charging infrastructure resilience, and marketing strategies as well as identify much-studied topics, such as charging infrastructure development, total cost of ownership, and purchase-based incentive policies.

TL;DR: The main outcomes of the review introductory article contributed to the better understanding of current technological progress in IoT application areas as well as the environmental implications linked with the increased application of IoT products.

TL;DR: In this article, the role of financial development and globalization on the ecological footprint (EF) was investigated for selected one-belt-one-road initiative countries from 1990 to 2014, and the pooled means group long-run panel estimation results showed that the EF sparks off by 0.0211 percent global hectares (gha) in selected panel countries when there is a 1 percent rise in financial development.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the impact of plastic pollution on greenhouse gas emission and climate change. But they focused on the toxicity, behavior and fate of plastic waste, and only limited attention was paid on the greenhouse gas emissions.

TL;DR: Based on the data of BP Statistical Review of World Energy, KOF Globalization Index, and the World Development Indicators, the authors explores the impact of technological innovation on CO2 emissions in a panel of 96 countries over the period 1996-2018 with spatial econometric models.

TL;DR: A discussion on the aging reasons for LIBs is discussed, the SOH prediction method based on the classification framework is introduced, and the key benefits and drawbacks of each method are analyzed.

TL;DR: In this paper, three mechanisms for augmenting heat transfer and the interaction of these methods to augment the performance of the system have been evaluated based on comparison with experimental data, outputs are very excellent fit with maximum 9.3% deviation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors have revisited the technology policies of these countries, and in doing so, they have tried to address the problem of environmental degradation, while addressing the issues of sustained economic growth, clean and affordable energy, and quality education.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an overview of the history of the concepts of circular business models and circular business model innovation, as well as an overview and synthesis of definitions of the business model and business models innovation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify four themes, drivers, barriers, practices, and indicators of sustainable performance when applying a circular economy in the textile and apparel industry, and establish a conceptual model based on these four themes to illustrate the relationship between them.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the fundamental issues and opportunities and to develop a sustainable and smart country-wide waste management system using industry 4.0 technologies, which can achieve satisfactory economic, social, and environmental waste management performances.

TL;DR: This review provides a comprehensive overview of key findings in green synthesis of nanoparticles and attempts to determine their possible synthesis mechanism.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper analyzed the effect of environmental regulation and R&D tax incentives on green product innovation from a disciplinary and incentive perspective, and showed a U-shaped relationship between environmental regulations and green product innovations.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of literature on the latest technological approaches in noble and base metals recovery from waste printed circuit boards (PCBs) of electrical and electronic equipment is presented.

TL;DR: This study combined support vector machine and improved dragonfly algorithm to forecast short-term wind power for a hybrid prediction model and has shown better prediction performance compared with the other models such as back propagation neural network and Gaussian process regression.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the heterogeneous effects of energy efficiency (EE), renewable energy (RE), and other variables on carbon emissions within the context of the environment Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis in 66 developing countries from 1990 to 2014.

TL;DR: HHO-based identifier provides high-quality solutions for parameter identification cases based on its coherent searching trends and is recommended as a competent and auxiliary technique for parameters estimation of photovoltaic models.

TL;DR: In this article, an evaluation of environmental impacts of geopolymer containing fly ash and silica fume is conducted by benchmarking the environmental impact of three concrete mixes against the conventional cement concrete.