{"title":"Conversion and valorization of tropical macroalgae","authors":"Valérie Jeanne-Rose, Francesca Goudou-Rosnel, Yeray Alvarez, Christelle Yacou, Sarra Gaspard","doi":"10.1016/j.cogsc.2024.100975","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cogsc.2024.100975","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Macroalgae, as well as carbonaceous materials prepared from them, offer several promising avenues for pollution control and environmental remediation purposes. Such macroalgae can be used in wastewater treatment processes to remove pollutants such as heavy metals or organic compounds. <em>Sargassum</em> spp., a well-known tropical macroalgae, which are very abundant due to frequent beaching on the coastlines of the Caribbean, Florida, and the Gulf of Mexico during the last 12 years, represents a high number of available resources. They can be used as precursors for the synthesis of biochars and activated carbons, not only for pollutant removal from water but also for pollutant sequestration in soils. To optimize biomass valorization, carbonaceous materials can also be produced within the algae biorefinery process. The use of molecular modeling is proposed as a potential strategy for the greening of adsorption processes studies, allowing for the prediction and understanding of adsorption mechanisms.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54228,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry","volume":"50 ","pages":"Article 100975"},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142705910","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Changgwon Choe , Jong Ah Moon , Jiwon Gu , Aejin Lee , Hankwon Lim
{"title":"Life cycle sustainability assessment for sustainable energy future: A short review on opportunity and challenge","authors":"Changgwon Choe , Jong Ah Moon , Jiwon Gu , Aejin Lee , Hankwon Lim","doi":"10.1016/j.cogsc.2024.100974","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cogsc.2024.100974","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Sustainable development is one of the important concerns for organizational growth. Sustainability is described as “<em>the ability to continuously maintain a process over time.</em>” This concept includes the three kinds of dimensions in the aspects of society, economy, and environment. Life cycle sustainability assessment is a crucial tool for analyzing the sustainability of products, services, or processes, and it can help accelerate sustainable development. Life cycle sustainability assessment is the integrative analysis tool used to evaluate the impacts of society, economy, and environment of concerns in its life cycle. In this short review, we briefly introduce the methodology of life cycle sustainability assessment and review the application of life cycle sustainability assessment focusing on the sustainable energy future. For sustainable development, this framework may help to support the decision-making of products throughout the whole life cycle.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54228,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry","volume":"50 ","pages":"Article 100974"},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142529588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Plasma-based conversion of methane into hydrogen and carbon black","authors":"L. Fulcheri , E. Dames , V. Rohani","doi":"10.1016/j.cogsc.2024.100973","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cogsc.2024.100973","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This short review presents recent findings on plasma-based pyrolysis of methane into hydrogen and carbon black. After a brief introduction stating the advantages of plasma methane pyrolysis, a discussion on the state of the art is given for different plasma technologies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54228,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry","volume":"50 ","pages":"Article 100973"},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142529589","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A comprehensive review on marine by-products use for the recovery of value-added products","authors":"H. Mkadem, A. Kaanane","doi":"10.1016/j.cogsc.2024.100972","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cogsc.2024.100972","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The research on valorizing marine by-products has gained momentum over the past few years due to the limited marine resources and the increasing demand for sustainable sources of functional, nutritional ingredients and biomaterials. Two mean valorization approaches are distinguished in the use of marine by-products: the massive production of fishmeal and fish oil for feed, primarily through the wet reduction process and the new trends of producing high-value bioactive compounds with developed technologies, such as protein hydrolysates, gelatin and collagen, chitin and chitosan, hydroxyapatite, astaxanthin, biofuels, and minerals. This review aims to provide a summary of the bioactive compounds derived from marine by-products, their properties and the various conventional and new technologies used for their valorization over the past two years. The review is organized into four sections that present the valorization of by-products according to four primary marine categories: fish, crustaceans, cephalopods, and bivalves.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54228,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry","volume":"50 ","pages":"Article 100972"},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142529596","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Christian Bux , Johann Fellner , Demet Seyhan , Vera Amicarelli
{"title":"Measurement of fertilizer flows to advance circularity and resilience to climate change","authors":"Christian Bux , Johann Fellner , Demet Seyhan , Vera Amicarelli","doi":"10.1016/j.cogsc.2024.100971","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cogsc.2024.100971","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Circularity strategies addressing climate change and resource depletion depend on evaluating material and energy flows between biosphere and technosphere. Material flow analysis (MFA) is essential for measuring the physical economy of socioeconomic metabolism, yet its widespread adoption is limited by uncertainties, incomplete inventories, and lack of expertise at the organizational level. Despite this, MFA is gaining traction as a decision-making tool also within companies. This research examines MFA's application to fertilizer flows in green chemistry, and circularity indicators to promote healthy soils rich in organic matter/biodiversity while minimizing environmental impacts. The first substance flow analysis indicators for phosphorus management were introduced in 2006, highlighting losses, stocks, and unaccounted-for flows, but the challenge remains to apply a harmonized model across multiple cases. In nitrogen metabolism, studies estimate hidden flows and storage in the agri-food system, and corporate efforts leveraging MFA can spur similar developments in nutrient flow management, particularly in agriculture.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54228,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry","volume":"50 ","pages":"Article 100971"},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142421550","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Corrigendum to “Industrial view on hydrogen carriers for intercontinental transport” [Curr Opin Green Sustain Chem (44) (2023) 100843]","authors":"Markus Weikl , Andreas Peschel","doi":"10.1016/j.cogsc.2024.100970","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cogsc.2024.100970","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54228,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry","volume":"50 ","pages":"Article 100970"},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142421551","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Design and structuring of porous sorbents for CO2 capture and separation","authors":"Farid Akhtar , Andreas Kaiser","doi":"10.1016/j.cogsc.2024.100966","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cogsc.2024.100966","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>CO<sub>2</sub> capture and conversion using structured porous sorbents and catalysts is a solution to help the decarbonization of emission-intensive industries. Furthermore, porous sorbents have recently been considered for direct air capture to achieve negative CO<sub>2</sub> emissions. Several new prototypes and swing adsorption technologies for CO<sub>2</sub> capture use structured laminates and honeycomb sorbents to lower the energy penalty and improve process efficiency and kinetics. The challenges lie in tailoring and optimizing structured sorbents for their CO<sub>2</sub> working capacity, selectivity over other components, the effect of impurities and humidity, mass and heat transfer kinetics, and mechanical and chemical durability, which are specific to the exhaust system and flue gas composition. Recent developments in the structuring of sorbents are reviewed with a focus on the scalable approaches to improve the performance of postcombustion CO<sub>2</sub> capture and direct air capture processes.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":54228,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry","volume":"50 ","pages":"Article 100966"},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2452223624000877/pdfft?md5=b16a66196b4f278f0625a79d07eb5076&pid=1-s2.0-S2452223624000877-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142239389","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Juliette C. Verschoor, Petra E. de Jongh, Peter Ngene
{"title":"Recent advances in thermocatalytic ammonia synthesis and decomposition","authors":"Juliette C. Verschoor, Petra E. de Jongh, Peter Ngene","doi":"10.1016/j.cogsc.2024.100965","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cogsc.2024.100965","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Ammonia (NH<sub>3</sub>) is widely used in the production of vital chemicals such as synthetic fertilizers and nitric acid. It has recently attracted great attention as an energy carrier due to its high hydrogen content (17 wt.% H), ease of transportation, and stability over time. However, for ammonia to fulfil this promise, a more efficient and sustainable method for its synthesis and decomposition must be developed. Significant scientific efforts have been devoted to achieving this via an in-depth understanding of the reaction mechanisms. This mini-review discusses the most relevant developments in heterogenous catalysts for ammonia synthesis and decomposition over the past two years, which has centered on structural and electronic modifications, single atom catalysis, and the use of dual/multiple catalytic sites for N<sub>2</sub> and H<sub>2</sub> activation to overcome the scaling relationship, and thereby achieve moderate reaction conditions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":54228,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry","volume":"50 ","pages":"Article 100965"},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2452223624000865/pdfft?md5=fbcca5ce2b86fb352e823f3cd90f7d5c&pid=1-s2.0-S2452223624000865-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142229207","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Recent advances in metal-mediated electrochemical ammonia synthesis towards commercialization","authors":"Craig Burdis , Suzanne Zamany Andersen , Jesús Barrio , Magda Titirici , Ifan E.L. Stephens , Mattia Saccoccio","doi":"10.1016/j.cogsc.2024.100964","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cogsc.2024.100964","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Current commercial ammonia production occurs in large, centralized facilities <em>via</em> the Haber–Bosch process, emitting a significant portion of our global CO<sub>2</sub> emissions. In a world of increasing decentralized renewable energy production, there is therefore an urgent need to develop sustainable and decentralized technologies for ammonia synthesis, which can abate these emissions and take advantage of the decentralized nature of renewables: the electrochemical N<sub>2</sub> reduction field offers a promising alternative. Herein, only electrochemical metal-mediated ammonia synthesis processes have been proven across several laboratories and research groups to work at near-ambient pressure and temperature. This review will provide an overview of recent advances in the last two years laying a foundation for future industrial applications of the metal-mediated ammonia synthesis process.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54228,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry","volume":"50 ","pages":"Article 100964"},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2452223624000853/pdfft?md5=2dbec1550df203b873f51a72d318462e&pid=1-s2.0-S2452223624000853-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142184869","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Levulinic acid biorefinery in a life cycle perspective","authors":"Alessandra Sessa , Prisco Prete , Daniele Cespi , Nicola Scotti , Tommaso Tabanelli , Claudia Antonetti , Vincenzo Russo , Raffaele Cucciniello","doi":"10.1016/j.cogsc.2024.100963","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cogsc.2024.100963","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Nowadays there is a strong urge to replace the fossil-based chemicals and fuels with biobased ones. In this context, the 7th principle of the green chemistry, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the recent Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD) approach are the main references. Among the various biorefineries, lignocellulosic biomasses represent the most abundant resource to explore. Considering the vast plethora of useful molecules produced from lignocellulosic biomasses, levulinic acid embodies a potential starting material for the preparation of high value-added chemicals. This review explores the preparation of levulinic acid form lignocellulosic biomasses and its further valorization to high-value added compounds (γ-valerolactone, ketals and methyl/ethyl levulinate), considering the current state of the art of the available synthetic strategies, in a life cycle perspective considering the adoption of the life cycle assessment (LCA) methodology.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":54228,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry","volume":"50 ","pages":"Article 100963"},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2452223624000841/pdfft?md5=fbe97acd8f6c9d0320c58268176d675d&pid=1-s2.0-S2452223624000841-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142171714","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}