Sustainable Chemistry for Climate Action最新文献

{"title":"Green pathways for urea synthesis: A review from Australia's perspective","authors":"Dia Milani ,&nbsp;Ali Kiani ,&nbsp;Nawshad Haque ,&nbsp;Sarabjit Giddey ,&nbsp;Paul Feron","doi":"10.1016/j.scca.2022.100008","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.scca.2022.100008","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper discusses the status of the global fertilizer industry with a primary focus on Australian market. The conventional energy- and carbon-intensive ammonia production industry is taking serious steps in transforming to more environmentally benign pathways via utilizing ‘green’ hydrogen (hydrogen production via water electrolysis powered by renewable energy) feedstock into their production process and utilizing more of the CO₂ by-product into downstream processes such as urea production. However, it is very challenging for ammonia and other fertilizer production routes to use ‘green’ pathway to completely decarbonize agriculture and food industry. Here, we argue that urea synthesis can only be considered as a ‘green’ technology if ammonia feedstock is produced via a ‘green’ pathway and the CO₂ feedstock comes from non-fossil-fuel and carbon-neutral sources. Three possible resources for carbon-neutral CO₂ are identified and discussed within Australia's context: from biomass, renewable methane, and from direct air carbon capture (DAC). Each of these carbon-neutral CO₂ routes has many opportunities and challenges that may affect the cost of production, but the trajectory urea prices and growing market demand if supported by an adequate government regulatory framework would be able to make the ‘green’ urea production cost affordable. Achieving this goal however would require proper energy management systems to synchronize and optimize such a multi-player orientation for a common objective of maximizing the penetration of renewable sources at competitive costs. In this review, it is emphasized that this challenge could be addressed more effectively via a rigours intelligent energy network (IEN) by managing the dynamics of the supply and demand, integrating reliable storage systems, reclaiming the waste heat, and improving process efficiencies. Local ‘green’ urea production at competitive costs would help Australia realizing ambitions to become a leading green fertilizer and renewable energy exporter in the region.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101195,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Chemistry for Climate Action","volume":"1 ","pages":"Article 100008"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772826922000074/pdfft?md5=1ea8f309e82f040050d0b83918b2a4b2&pid=1-s2.0-S2772826922000074-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79127461","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Activated carbons synthesized from sucrose using porous clay heterostructures as template for CO2 adsorption","authors":"J.A. Cecilia ,&nbsp;E. Vilarrasa-García ,&nbsp;N. Chouikhi ,&nbsp;R. Morales-Ospino ,&nbsp;S. Besghaier ,&nbsp;M. Chlendi ,&nbsp;M. Bagane ,&nbsp;M. Bastos-Neto ,&nbsp;D.C.S. Azevedo ,&nbsp;E. Rodríguez-Castellón","doi":"10.1016/j.scca.2022.100006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.scca.2022.100006","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this work we have analyzed the synthesis of microporous materials using sucrose as carbon source and porous clay heterostructures as template to promote a hierarchical organization of pores, which is a novelty in the synthesis of carbonaceous materials. The study comprises the evaluation of the synthesis conditions such as the addition of a base (KOH) or the variation of the pyrolysis temperature (600, 750 and 900 °C). The studied materials were characterized via X ray diffraction, Transmission Electron Microscopy, gas adsorption, Attenuated Total Reflectance, <em>Raman spectroscopy</em> and X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy. Additionally, the performance of the synthesized adsorbents in terms of CO₂ uptake at three temperatures (0, 25 and 45 °C) was assessed and compared with similar materials reported in the literature. The results suggested by and large that the use of the base and the highest pyrolysis temperature (900 °C) during the synthesis enhances the CO₂ adsorption at the different evaluated temperatures. Nonetheless, it is at the lowest pyrolysis temperature i.e., 600 °C, where one can observe a more accentuated superior performance of the material synthesized with base than that obtained without the addition of KOH.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101195,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Chemistry for Climate Action","volume":"1 ","pages":"Article 100006"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772826922000062/pdfft?md5=6ca20c9c7cff7a349608550f1c16d9b0&pid=1-s2.0-S2772826922000062-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85529288","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Green approach to synthesize functional carbon nanoparticles at low temperature","authors":"Gregorio Guadalupe Carbajal Arízaga ,&nbsp;José Guadalupe Quiñones Galván ,&nbsp;Alesandro Bail ,&nbsp;Andrea Lizeth Pérez González ,&nbsp;Citlali Pereyra Nuñez ,&nbsp;Miguel Ángel López Álvarez","doi":"10.1016/j.scca.2022.100002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.scca.2022.100002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Carbon nanoparticles have demonstrated their potential to develop materials with advanced applications in which their luminescence and biocompatibility are exploited. In the search for sustainable methods to produce these nanoparticles, natural carbon sources such as plant- and animal-based products and by-products have been used. However, the existing procedures are still performed with high temperature, high pressure, and long reaction times. This report proposes a method to synthesize carbon nanoparticles using a tomato extract as the carbon source, followed by precipitation and calcination at a maximum of 60 °C under atmospheric pressure. This calcination temperature is the lowest reported and contributes to establishing a greener synthesis route. The detected fluorescence of these particles covers the entire region of the visible spectrum. The emission intensity is sensitive to zinc cations, demonstrating that this green method produces useful particles in detecting heavy metals similar to those reported by traditional methods. Furthermore, the aqueous solutions of these particles are photothermic when they are irradiated with red light, also showing their usefulness in biomedical developments. Therefore, this green synthesis at a very low temperature contributes to improving the green methods and boosts the sustainable development of advanced functional materials.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101195,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Chemistry for Climate Action","volume":"1 ","pages":"Article 100002"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772826922000025/pdfft?md5=edc00ffee34e2d318062173a03bc7731&pid=1-s2.0-S2772826922000025-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75106816","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Implementation of Artificial Neural Networks in the assessment of CO2 solubility in deep eutectic and ionic liquid solvents – Performance and cost comparison","authors":"Avikal Sagar ,&nbsp;Sreedevi Upadhyayula","doi":"10.1016/j.scca.2022.100007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.scca.2022.100007","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><p>In order to counteract the economic and environmental issues presented by Ionic Liquids (ILs) for carbon capture in post-combustion processes, Deep eutectic solvents (DESs) are being researched as potential absorbents. These are an emerging class of ILs that have a strong contribution from hydrogen bonding and have shown promising trends in CO₂ absorption in recent times.</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>In this study, three hydrogen bond acceptors (HBA), along with 2-hydroxypropanoic acid (Lactic Acid (LA)) as the hydrogen bond donor (HBD), have been identified and analyzed as CO₂ absorbents. Considering their structural properties, thermodynamic behavior, and experimental conditions as input parameters, a backpropagation neural network (BPNN) has been implemented to analyze and predict the extent of CO₂ solubility within each of the DES mixtures.</p></div><div><h3>Significant Findings</h3><p>BPNN successfully predicted trends in the solubility as a function of the alkyl chain length, temperature, and pressure. It was observed that the solubility of CO₂ increased with increasing alkyl chain length and pressure but decreased with increasing values of temperature. DES is found to be more economical than other ionic liquid solvents used for CO₂ absorption.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101195,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Chemistry for Climate Action","volume":"1 ","pages":"Article 100007"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772826922000050/pdfft?md5=93c96e89fb63da2d810a4c1642eaa623&pid=1-s2.0-S2772826922000050-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77959773","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Conversion of furfuryl alcohol into alkyl‒levulinates using solid acid catalysts","authors":"Sang‒Ho Chung ,&nbsp;Sascha de Haart ,&nbsp;Rudy Parton ,&nbsp;N. Raveendran Shiju","doi":"10.1016/j.scca.2022.100004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.scca.2022.100004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Alkyl levulinates (alkyl‒LA) are biomass derived, versatile chemicals for flavours, chemical solvents and fuel additives. In this work, we used furfuryl alcohol (FFA) to synthesise alkyl‒LA and systematically investigated the FFA alcoholysis using batch and continuous reactors . We screened various solid acid catalysts in the batch reactor system and found that Amberlyst‒15 resin performed best, not only showing high levels of alkyl‒LA yields, but also suppressing the amount of undesired dialkyl ether. We observed two plausible intermediates (alkoxy‒methylfuran and tri-alkoxy-pentanone) during the FFA alcoholysis. In the continuous reactor system, the water content in the reaction mixture influenced the conversion of FFA as well as the yield of alkyl‒LA, providing additional reaction pathways (<em>e.g.</em>, ring opening of FFA). For the first time, we demonstrated a branched C8 alcohol (2‒ethyl‒1‒hexanol, ethylhexanol) can be used to obtain the corresponding levulinate (2‒ethyl‒1‒hexyl‒LA, ethylhexyl‒LA). With the optimised reaction conditions, we could obtain ethylhexyl‒LA with the yield of 83% and 98% in the batch and continuous reactor system, respectively.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101195,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Chemistry for Climate Action","volume":"1 ","pages":"Article 100004"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772826922000049/pdfft?md5=cccfb24f7fe32699392e5b5776470825&pid=1-s2.0-S2772826922000049-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89012676","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Climate, Crop Production, and Water Resources in Western Asia","authors":"S. Al‐Jubouri, S. Eslamian, B. Waisi, Z. F. Makki","doi":"10.1007/978-3-319-71063-1_138-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71063-1_138-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":101195,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Chemistry for Climate Action","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84821521","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Engineering Hydrology: Impact on Sustainable Development","authors":"S. Eslamian, S. Parvizi","doi":"10.1007/978-3-319-71063-1_134-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71063-1_134-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":101195,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Chemistry for Climate Action","volume":"45 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76325872","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change: Australia and New Zealand","authors":"M. Nursey-Bray, Meg Parsons","doi":"10.1007/978-3-319-71063-1_144-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71063-1_144-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":101195,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Chemistry for Climate Action","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74413864","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Top-Down Climate Control for Global Environmental Stability","authors":"Julia M. Puaschunder","doi":"10.1007/978-3-319-71063-1_127-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71063-1_127-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":101195,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Chemistry for Climate Action","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85942432","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Role of Religions in Climate Action","authors":"Silvia Albareda-Tiana, M. Fernández-Morilla","doi":"10.1007/978-3-319-71063-1_141-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71063-1_141-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":101195,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Chemistry for Climate Action","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81587616","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}