Showing papers in "Process Safety and Environmental Protection in 2018"

TL;DR: A systematic and extensive review of research that captures the dynamic nature of industry 4.0 has been presented in this article, where 85 papers were classified in five research categories namely conceptual papers on Industry4.0, human-machine interactions, machine-equipment interactions, technologies of Industry 4., and sustainability.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify key challenges to Industry 4.0 initiatives and analyze the identified key challenges in order to prioritize them for effective Industry4.0 concepts for supply chain sustainability in emerging economies.

TL;DR: In this article, the electrochemical advanced oxidation process electrochemical oxidation is reviewed for its performance over the treatment of actual industrial and urban effluents, and the combination of electrochemical oxide with other water treatment technologies as pre-treatment, post-treatment and integrated treatment is also examined.

TL;DR: In this paper, the potential for sustainable value creation in Industry 4.0 is qualitatively assessed for a macro and micro perspective based on a literature review and expert interviews, and the assessment unfolds that the value creation might positively contribute to a sustainable development in many cases.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identified a set of challenges (framework) for implementing Industry 4.0 in manufacturing industries and evaluated them using a novel multi-criteria decision-making method named Best-Worst method (BWM).

TL;DR: In this paper, the limitations of Fenton oxidation and the recent strategies toward addressing them are reviewed, including the fundamentals and applications in the removal of recalcitrant pollutants, and the possible solutions to these limitations.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify the potential sustainability barriers of PSC and investigate how Industry 4.0 can be applied in the sustainable PSC paradigms, and find that the major challenges that inhibit inclusion of sustainability in the PSCs are: high costs and time consumption, little expertise and training, enforcement of regulations, the paucity of business incentives, ineffective collaborations and coordination across PSC, lack of objective benchmarks, and poor end-customer awareness.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discussed the preparation of a type of hybrid dust suppressant by cross-linking sodium ligninsulfonate and acrylamide, which generates a macromolecular product.

TL;DR: In this article, a multi-index experimental system for estimating various factors during coal oxidation (heating) and combustion and analyzed the characteristic temperature, index gases, and EMR signals.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a global system approach, as defined by industry 4.0 (vertical, horizontal and total business integration), to resolve the inter-site challenges together with global standardization and inter-functional integration.

TL;DR: In this article, a review of the synthesis methods of 3D graphene-based structures and their adsorption performance of dyes, heavy metals, and pharmaceuticals is presented, showing that 3D Graphene configurations are promising solutions for practical application of carbon nanomaterials in wastewater treatment.

TL;DR: In this article, a review of the structural properties of biochar for application in direct carbon fuel cells (DCFCs) is also explored, which establishes an understanding of the most significant properties of the biochar fuels which include proximate analysis (information of moisture, ash, volatile and fixed carbon content).

TL;DR: Pecan shell based activated carbon (PSBAC) developed in this paper had a high specific surface area (1500 m2/g) and pore volume (0.7 cm3/g).

TL;DR: In this article, a review summarizes the arsenic treatment application of graphene oxide and graphene oxide based materials with selected examples, mostly from the latest literature, and discuss the adsorption affinity and mechanism have been discussed using kinetics and isotherm models.

TL;DR: This paper focuses on identifying and systemizing information regarding the integration of PSEP and industry 4.0 concepts and technologies, and addresses non-existent intersections between keyword co-occurrence networks in PSEp and industry 5.0.

TL;DR: In this article, the synthesis of a high activity Ag/TiO2 photocatalyst through a two-step, sol-gel and mechanothermal decomposition method employing a silver acetate precursor was demonstrated.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors evaluated the possible heavy metal pollution in soil by applying Hakanson risk evaluation method with adjusting assessment domain combined with ArcGIS technology, the assessment standards were adjusted based on the amount and types of studied heavy metals.

TL;DR: In this article, the phase morphology, composition, specific surface area and crystalline structure of the nanopowders were characterized in detail, and the photocatalytic activity of ZnO under UV irradiation was systematically higher than other materials.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed the recent research progresses of graphene, carbon-nitrogen compounds, TiO2 and bismuth compounds supported on molybdenum disulfide co-catalyst, which were applied to photocatalytic degradation of various organic contaminants such as methylene blue (MB), methyl orange (MO) and rhodamine B (RhB), etc.

TL;DR: In this article, the phosphorus removal from domestic wastewater was studied through electrocoagulation (EC) using iron (Fe) and aluminium (Al) anodes in a batch EC reactor.

TL;DR: In this paper, industrial experiments of pulsating hydraulic fracturing (PHF) were carried out, and physical properties including the reasonable fracture radius, gas extraction concentration, water content, permeability, pore and mineral composition of a coal seam, were investigated.

TL;DR: In this paper, a scale-up design for Cr(VI) removal using walnut shell as an adsorbent and its economic feasibility are done to find out its applicability in real life.

TL;DR: In this article, the sorption capabilities of raw and steam activated biochar derived from Aegle marmelos (wood apple) shell in the removal of ibuprofen (IBP) from aqueous solution were investigated.

TL;DR: In this article, photocatalytic degradation of acesulfame K, one of the most popular artificial sweeteners, has been carried out under variations of the initial concentration, pH, concentration of persulfate, and amount of natural organic matter (NOM).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared the energy efficiency of photo-Fenton, photocatalytic ozonation, Fenton oxidation and photo-photo-fenton with different advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) in terms of the energy yield for decolorization of MB and total organic carbon removal using a planar falling film reactor.

TL;DR: In this paper, a plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition method was used for synthesizing Fe2O3@SiO2 thin films as a novel adsorbent for removal of heavy metal mercury(II) and hexavalent chromium ions from water samples.

TL;DR: In this paper, the removal efficiency of CBZ was significantly enhanced by coupling H2O2 with UV and Fe3+/Fe2+ at 3600 mJ cm−2, 7.5, 60.5 and 56.7% CBZ degradation in the presence of Cl− and humic acid, respectively.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the diffusion and pollution of multiple sources in a fully mechanized coal face using CFD-DPM based airflow-dust coupling method, and analyzed the distributions of dust particle diameter at different positions.

TL;DR: In this article, the chemical composition of melon (Cucumis melo L.) seeds, Maazoun variety, was investigated and the results revealed that melon seeds presented an alternative source of plant oil which may serve as raw material for food applications.

TL;DR: In this paper, the reaction mechanism of spontaneous coal combustion and the indicators for forecasting this risk, reaction characteristics of free radicals and functional groups during low-temperature oxidation of coal with different ranks were analyzed by electron spin resonance and Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy.