Mehmood Irfan , Dan Yang , Fahad Jabbar , Aaron Elbourne , Ken Chiang , Torben Daeneke , Karma Zuraiqi
{"title":"Liquid metals for renewable energy synthesis and storage","authors":"Mehmood Irfan , Dan Yang , Fahad Jabbar , Aaron Elbourne , Ken Chiang , Torben Daeneke , Karma Zuraiqi","doi":"10.1016/j.cogsc.2024.100952","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cogsc.2024.100952","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Growing concerns regarding increasing emission levels and climate change have expedited extensive research on finding alternative fuel resources to fossil fuels. Sustainable production of renewable fuels from renewable resources is seen as one of the most promising solutions. In addition, efficient energy storage systems are crucial to ensure a reliable and resilient power supply. One main challenge faced by current technologies regarding the synthesis and storage of renewable fuels is the lack of efficient catalytic materials and electrode materials. In recent years, liquid metals emerged as a new class of materials with superior catalytic activities and intriguing properties for energy storage. In this minireview, we have presented the latest liquid metal research in the field of renewable fuel synthesis and energy storage along with recommendations for their future development.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":54228,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry","volume":"49 ","pages":"Article 100952"},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2024-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2452223624000737/pdfft?md5=899d85a4855af0f97870033384cd113f&pid=1-s2.0-S2452223624000737-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141622827","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":"Waste-to-nutrition: Sustainable strategies for use of organic biomass in complex food systems","authors":"Daniel Pleissner, Sergiy Smetana","doi":"10.1016/j.cogsc.2024.100949","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cogsc.2024.100949","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54228,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry","volume":"49 ","pages":"Article 100949"},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2024-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141569738","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}
Amro M.O. Mohamed , Ioannis G. Economou , Yusuf Bicer
{"title":"Navigating ammonia production routes: Life cycle assessment insights for a sustainable future","authors":"Amro M.O. Mohamed , Ioannis G. Economou , Yusuf Bicer","doi":"10.1016/j.cogsc.2024.100947","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cogsc.2024.100947","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Ammonia, a cornerstone of global agriculture and a key industrial chemical, faces growing environmental scrutiny due to its production processes. This mini-review evaluates various production routes through Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) to compare traditional and sustainable ammonia production routes, focusing on ecological, human health, and resource impacts. It synthesizes LCA studies, revealing that sustainable practices can significantly reduce ammonia's ecological footprint. The review emphasizes the need for a holistic LCA approach, considering all impact aspects, not just ecological ones, to identify potential burden shifting on ecosystems and human health, and highlights the importance of short and long-term strategies to mitigate environmental impacts from ammonia synthesis.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":54228,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry","volume":"49 ","pages":"Article 100947"},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2024-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2452223624000683/pdfft?md5=25e6ec35910d28734dfa8afa4348ea23&pid=1-s2.0-S2452223624000683-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141569746","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":"Renewable ammonia for islanded energy storage","authors":"Matthew J. Palys, Prodromos Daoutidis","doi":"10.1016/j.cogsc.2024.100946","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cogsc.2024.100946","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Ammonia is a promising carbon-neutral, energy-dense fuel to enable long duration storage of renewable energy. This is especially relevant for islanded energy systems that rely entirely on local renewable generation to meet power and heat demands. This paper surveys renewable ammonia production and ammonia-fueled energy generation technologies in terms of recent innovations, economics, and other performance metrics, and their current state of development particularly as it pertains to islanded applications. We then provide insight into recent systems engineering approaches to determining how best to deploy and operate these technologies in islanded renewable ammonia energy systems while also highlighting necessary future research in this area.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":54228,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry","volume":"48 ","pages":"Article 100946"},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2024-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141407707","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":"Direct ammonia fuel cells for power generation: Recent technological advances and mobility applications","authors":"Debajeet K. Bora, Abdessamad Faik","doi":"10.1016/j.cogsc.2024.100944","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cogsc.2024.100944","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Direct ammonia fuel cells (DAFCs) have recently appeared as a promising alternative to existing PEM fuel cells due to ammonia's abundance and high hydrogen content, followed by a low carbon footprint. However, realizing its potential for practical applications requires overcoming technological hurdles. These are sluggish kinetics of ammonia oxidation reaction, ammonia crossover, and membrane poisoning. This mini review focuses on recent advancements in DAFC technology, highlighting breakthroughs in new catalysts development and system designs that address these challenges and realization of DAFC commercialization for mobility applications.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":54228,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry","volume":"48 ","pages":"Article 100944"},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2024-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141392734","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}
Korawich Trangwachirachai , Kevin Rouwenhorst , Leon Lefferts , Jimmy A. Faria Albanese
{"title":"Recent progress on ammonia cracking technologies for scalable hydrogen production","authors":"Korawich Trangwachirachai , Kevin Rouwenhorst , Leon Lefferts , Jimmy A. Faria Albanese","doi":"10.1016/j.cogsc.2024.100945","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cogsc.2024.100945","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The global energy transition necessitates the development of technologies enabling cost-effective and scalable conversion of renewable energies into storable and transportable forms. Green ammonia, with its high hydrogen storage capacity, emerges as a promising carbon-free hydrogen carrier. This article reviews recent progress in industrially relevant catalysts and technologies for ammonia cracking, which is a pivotal step in utilizing ammonia as a hydrogen storage material. Catalysts based on Ru, Ni, Fe, Co, and Fe–Co are evaluated, with Co-based catalysts showing exceptional potential for ammonia cracking. Different reactor technologies and their applications are briefly discussed. This review concludes with perspectives on overcoming existing challenges, emphasizing the need for catalyst development, effective reactor design, and sustainable implementation in the context of the energy transition.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":54228,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry","volume":"49 ","pages":"Article 100945"},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2024-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S245222362400066X/pdfft?md5=457a42fcfe51641103073162af425339&pid=1-s2.0-S245222362400066X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141409456","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":"Techno economic analysis for advanced methods of green hydrogen production","authors":"Salman Raza Naqvi , Bilal kazmi , Syed Ali Ammar Taqvi , Wei-Hsin Chen , Dagmar Juchelková","doi":"10.1016/j.cogsc.2024.100939","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogsc.2024.100939","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In the ongoing effort to reduce carbon emissions on a worldwide scale, green hydrogen, which is generated through environmentally responsible processes, has emerged as a significant driving force. As the demand for clean energy continues to rise, it is becoming increasingly important to have a solid understanding of the technological and economic elements of modern techniques of producing green hydrogen. In the context of green hydrogen generation understanding green hydrogen production's techno-economic features is necessary to reduce carbon emissions and transition to a low-carbon economy associated with breakthroughs in technology, the present study examines the most fascinating and relevant aspects of techno-economic analysis. Despite challenges, green hydrogen can help the world move to a cleaner, more sustainable energy future with solid analytical frameworks and legislation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":54228,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry","volume":"48 ","pages":"Article 100939"},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2452223624000609/pdfft?md5=918e6f0735f782c4e9790200242fa23f&pid=1-s2.0-S2452223624000609-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141434785","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}
Zara Arshad , A. John Blacker , Thomas W. Chamberlain , Nikil Kapur , Adam D. Clayton , Richard A. Bourne
{"title":"Droplet microfluidic flow platforms for automated reaction screening and optimisation","authors":"Zara Arshad , A. John Blacker , Thomas W. Chamberlain , Nikil Kapur , Adam D. Clayton , Richard A. Bourne","doi":"10.1016/j.cogsc.2024.100940","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cogsc.2024.100940","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The demand for efficient and sustainable chemical process development has driven significant advancements in automated droplet flow platforms, which, when coupled with high-throughput experimentation, offer powerful solutions for generating synthetic libraries and optimising reaction parameters. Droplet flow platforms allow for reactions to take place on a microfluidic scale, enabling rapid and sustainable process optimisations. The size of the droplet is varied, with the technique of generating the droplet differing from multiple pumps to advanced robotics. Approaches to integrate multiple analytical tools, phase sensors and parallel reactors have been developed, broadening the capabilities and increasing the throughput of these platforms. Herein, we review recent advancements made within this field, highlighting the type of chemical reactions investigated and the digital technologies which have enabled closed-loop optimisations.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":54228,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry","volume":"48 ","pages":"Article 100940"},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2452223624000610/pdfft?md5=ec6a4d97b911bfb2d6d8ab482dcaaba0&pid=1-s2.0-S2452223624000610-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141138972","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}
Ana Rita Soares Mateus , Angelina Pena , Ana Sanches-Silva
{"title":"Unveiling the potential of bioactive compounds in vegetable and fruit by-products: Exploring phytochemical properties, health benefits, and industrial opportunities","authors":"Ana Rita Soares Mateus , Angelina Pena , Ana Sanches-Silva","doi":"10.1016/j.cogsc.2024.100938","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cogsc.2024.100938","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Vegetables and fruits are among the most widely consumed foods in the world. Because of consumption and industrial processing, huge amounts of by-products are generated, causing important environmental and economic problems. However, these wastes present a high content of bioactive compounds making its recovery an excellent opportunity to enhance sustainability and reduce food waste. This review highlights the main bioactive compounds and health benefits of vegetable and fruit by-products and their main applications, toward circular economy, making a critical review for their valorization.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":54228,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry","volume":"48 ","pages":"Article 100938"},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2452223624000592/pdfft?md5=da4f2fe4c257cedcb4b668f6ecdcfa38&pid=1-s2.0-S2452223624000592-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141135007","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}
Peter Neugebauer , Sebastian Soritz , Johannes G. Khinast , Heidrun Gruber-Woelfler
{"title":"Enhanced sustainability with crystallization in continuous flow","authors":"Peter Neugebauer , Sebastian Soritz , Johannes G. Khinast , Heidrun Gruber-Woelfler","doi":"10.1016/j.cogsc.2024.100937","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cogsc.2024.100937","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>At a time of rising raw material and energy prices, as well as growing awareness of the green transition approach, sustainability is becoming an increasingly important issue in the pharmaceutical industry. Research is actively addressing these issues, driven by changing market demands. In this brief review, we present 5 topics that we believe will play an important role in achieving sustainable continuous crystallization in present, and will continue to do so in the future. In particular, this review focuses on the developments made over the past three years towards continuous crystallization of biomolecules, enantioselective crystallization, new crystallizer designs, process integration of continuous crystallization as well as computer-aided process optimization in crystallization and their contribution to the principles of green chemistry and engineering.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":54228,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry","volume":"48 ","pages":"Article 100937"},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2452223624000580/pdfft?md5=2474aadf45f49da85b4978de99d8bd52&pid=1-s2.0-S2452223624000580-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141141211","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}