The aim of this study was the syngas production by the gasification of plastic waste (polyethylene, polypropylene and terephthalate polyethylene). Ca, Ce, La, Mg and Mn were used to promote the Ni/ZSM-5 catalyst in order to enhance the production of higher syngas yield. The modified catalysts can enhanced the reaction rate of the pyrolysis process and resulting in high syngas in the product yields

The sorting and recycling of municipal household waste (MHW) as a complex adaptive system is becoming increasingly popular in current research. However, traditional simulation modeling ignores the important influence of anticipated regret and personality traits on individual choice behavior. This study introduces the degree of regret-joy in agent-based simulation modeling and designs a learning rule

There is inconsistent conclusion on the relationship between environmental regulation and firm innovation. Moreover, the effect of environmental regulation under direct supervision of the central government on firm innovation remains to be verified. Treating the National Specially Monitored Firms program as a quasi-natural experiment, we employ the difference-in-difference method to study the impact

Although industrialization has raised the living standard of human beings but now it is also becoming threat to the environment. The manufacturing industries are producing waste material in large volumes and are emitting greenhouse gases. These waste materials are being dumped on open land that pollute the soil, water, and air. On the other hand, construction industry is using natural resources on

Glycerol, a main byproduct of biodiesel, was used as the fuel agent in a scalable flame-assisted spray pyrolysis approach to synthesize micron-size cathode materials. Single droplet combustion, particle morphology, and electrochemical performance were examined considering the effects of salt concentration, water addition, and post-annealing time on synthesizing Li(Ni1/3Co1/3Mn1/3)O2 (NCM111) cathode

As the rapid development of wind energy and electricity markets, wind farms (WFs) in mounting numbers join the electricity markets such as spot and regulating markets, etc. The large-scale integration of WFs into the power system may threaten the safe and stable operation of power systems due to the inherent fluctuation nature of wind power, and as a consequence, the WFs may be penalized by the grid

The increase of climate disasters and air pollution has caused an urgent need for the clean and low carbon energy transition. In this background, polygeneration represents an innovative and promising concept. The purpose of this study is to provide a generic modelling and optimization strategy to evaluate the polygeneration systems in urban areas. A biomass polygeneration integrated energy system,

The introduction of green building certifications, on the one hand, can provide useful information for different stakeholders, such as developers and buyers, to evaluate “green” buildings’ environmental performance. On the other hand, it gives rise to an issue resembling the “lemons” problem in New Institutional Economics, as sellers such as developers and owners of properties with poorer ratings do

The increasing amount of worldwide carbon emissions has caused global warming, instigating governments to implement carbon policies such as the carbon cap-and-trade policy to achieve sustainable environmental development. This study aims to determine an optimal policy for the integrated system, which minimizes the total integrated cost while keeping ecological issues in mind. It discusses the carbon

Research questions/issues The study seeks to examine Carrolls’ pyramid model in small-medium enterprises (SMEs) as an effective business strategy for organizational performance enhancement in industry of developing country which is in the initial phase of Industry 4.0 advance. The Corporate social responsibility (CSR) pyramid is important tool for fostering environmentally-sustainable manufacturing

In this paper, a plant consisting of a solid oxide fuel cell and solid oxide electrolysis cell is proposed for power provision based on solar energy. In this system, water enters the solid oxide electrolysis cell and is split into H2 and O2 through the utilization of the generated power by the photovoltaic panels. The produced hydrogen is stored and sent to the solid oxide fuel cell for clean and consistent

In order to enhance heavy metals removal, two enhanced chemical leaching techniques were examined comparatively using NaClO and NaNO2 with the addition of FeCl3. The phosphorus release, dewaterability and pathogen removal of treated sludge were also examined after chemical leaching. The results showed that the heavy metals solubilization, improvement of dewaterability and pathogen removal were simultaneously

Reverse logistics (RL) strategy can have a positive impact on productivity, and the diminishing resources, along with the strict environmental regulations, have strengthened the need for this strategy. The purpose of this study is to develop an integrated framework for identifying: (1) the critical barriers to the successful implementation of RL in the automotive industry; (2) the importance and implementation

Novel low emissions supersulfated cements based on volcanic pumice were evaluated in reinforced concretes; the mechanical, microstructural and electrochemical properties were studied for 180 days. The volcanic pumice was chemically activated with anhydrite or hemihydrate and an alkaline activator of quicklime and Portland cement. The binder consumption in the concretes was of 720 kg/m3, of which only

Nature gas plays a fundamental role in promoting cleaner production worldwide. Given this, evaluation of the natural gas supply chain from the perspective of both economic and environmental-friendly should be considered simultaneously while proposing a comprehensive estimation model remain a challenge in the performance improving study. What's more, the inherent uncertainty and strong variation associated

United Nations’ members came together in 2015 and agreed on seventeen sustainable development goals which include hundred and sixty-nine targets related to sustainable development into the overall economic, environmental and social contexts of countries to be achieved by 2030. In order to achieve these goals, more effort may be required than the current policies and strategies. This is particularly

Rheology is an effective and efficient indicator to characterize the flow properties of fresh concrete. Through rheology measurement, the influence of variations in constituents and mixing proportions on the fluidity of fresh concrete can be effectively evaluated. In the case of self-compacting concrete and 3D printed concrete, the user can predict and optimize the flowability of fluid concrete by

The past two decades witnessed the raise of closed-loop supply chain due to huge attention to the environment and business social responsibility. Both academia and industry have examined recycling and remanufacturing of the used products, due to these concerns complicated by resource scarcity, and government regulations. In this paper, a three-level closed-loop supply chain consisting of a manufacturer

Lithium ion cells are one of the most promising solutions for energy storage. However, inevitable aging during the actual application will influence its thermal safety. This work intends to study the effect of aging on thermal behaviors of cells under external heating abuse. It was clearly shown that both fresh and aged cells were revealed to undergo thermal runaway and be ignited to fire. The venting

With the further promotion of green buildings in China, the adoption of green building technology (GBT) to improve building performance is a new requirement. Meanwhile, government-financed affordable housing to address the housing problems of a large number of low-income residents and migrant workers is in high demand. The specific service attributes of affordable housing determine its typical characteristics

Environmental efficiency is considered to be a critical pillar of sustainable development; consequently, improving environmental performance has aroused attention at both the local and global level. This study evaluated the environmental performance of European Union (EU) countries using the data envelopment analysis (DEA) approach and the global Malmquist-Luenberger index. Although literature using

Low nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) and phosphorus use efficiency (PUE) of crop farming has been causing serious environmental consequences. Here, we established a NUECF (nutrient use efficiency of crop farming) model with substance flow analysis (SFA) method to examine NUE and PUE of cultivating nine main crops in Chaohu Watershed in 2015. We collected data mainly from questionnaires, interview, literature

The inevitably incorporation of P2O5 impurity results in the poor quality of phosphogypsum (PG), which further hinders the utilisation of PG in manufacturing the supersulfated cement (SSC), an environment-friendly and energy-saving cement made almost entirely from industrial waste. Lime neutralisation provides a sustainable approach to remove the impurity in the PG and improve the quality of SSC. In

With the booming of the aquaculture industry, waste seashell is now causing serious environmental crisis and its recycling has now been drawn great attention in both academic and industrial field. In this study, enlightened by mycelium, a thermally tunable interlocking morphology has been introduced into the interface between polypropylene (PP) and shell powder via self-assembly of β-form nucleating

When it comes to the perception of all aspects of sustainability, Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) worldwide are responsible for preparing students, changing their attitudes, and encouraging them to think about future generations. In this sense, the main objective of this study is to analyze how sustainability has been inserted into undergraduate design courses offered by Brazilian HEIs. For the

This paper attempts to make optimization and decision on the sustainable supply network (SSN) with the consideration of the overall performance of the network from economic, environmental, and social aspects. A multi-objective optimization model was developed and an efficiency sorting multi-objective optimization framework is proposed to solve the model. In the framework, an efficiency sorting strategy

Phosphorus recovery through struvite precipitation consumes significant amounts of magnesium, thereby increasing the total cost of the process. Therefore, it is important to find cheaper alternatives than commercial magnesium sources. Processing of magnesite ore to produce magnesium oxide generates waste, the disposal of which can give associated environmental problems. Conversely, this ‘waste’ material

This paper aims to evaluate the perception of experts on the contribution of the Brazilian industrial sector in terms of sustainable development, focusing in particular on three of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) presented by United Nations (UN). A survey was conducted with professionals from Brazilian industry in order to identify their perceptions. It obtained sixty one answers and the

As national efforts to reduce CO2 emissions towards achieving Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs), policymakers require regional information for specific sectors to reduce uncertainties within national mitigation target. To understand the implementation barriers of the residential building sector towards achieving INDC, this study proposes an analytical framework for supporting robust

Biochemicals constitute a key sector in the bioeconomy, but their future expansion depends on biomass availability. This study employs an integrated global Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) modeling approach to quantify the impacts on land-use change, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and socioeconomic indicators, when reducing biomass conversion costs for global biochemical production by 1.5% annually

This paper introduces and adopts a different perspective in examining the relationship between environmental performance and client satisfaction through economic performance and investigates how different client types impacts this relationship. Data was collected from a survey conducted on class A contractors in Nigeria, and the partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) technique

The article presents a feasibility study on jojoba - a vegetable oil - as a candidate base oil mixed with and without molybdenum disulfide nano-particles (nMoS2) in hard-machining with minimum quantity lubrication (MQL). The jojoba oil is benchmarked against commercially available mineral oil (LRT 30) for machining of Ti-6Al-4V alloy. The machining performance in terms of cutting force, tool wear,

This paper focuses on whether carbon emissions trading (CET) has different impacts on the heterogeneous low-carbon innovation, and how CET affects the direction of technical change. Taking six CET pilot regions in China as research objectives, we set two types of technology as the clean and the gray with CPC-Y02 patent codes, and use the synthetic control method (SCM) in quasi-natural experiment. Moreover

This paper presents a new method for optimal model parameters estimation of the Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell (PEMFC). The purpose is to find the optimal parameters such that the integral of the absolute error (IAE) between the output voltage of the real stack and the achieved data has been minimized. Different metaheuristics can be used for the minimization. Most of them have their shortcomings

The involvement of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in sustainable development (SD) is becoming a popular topic on research and business domain. However, the co-themed research is still rather new and hasn't been fully studied. An in-depth bibliometric analysis using the ‘CiteSpace’ software is applied to analyze and visualize the knowledge map of the CSR research related to SD. Main findings

In this paper, the properties of concrete made with marine dredged sediment (MDS) were investigated both qualitatively and quantitatively with an emphasis on the strength. Annually, a huge amount of marine sediment is dredged and disposed of largely as waste, causing serious environmental problems. To minimize such disposal, the use of MDS for in-situ concrete production is a promising solution. However

In a duopoly market where exists technological differences, the inferior manufacturer always lies in the disadvantaged status because of the terrible energy efficiency in production. Lack of cooperation fee, and disadvantages in technology and skills are main barriers limiting the inferior manufacturer's technological advancement. This study aims to investigate the inferior manufacturer's cooperation

Thermal storage of the energy is essential for district heating systems to mitigate intermittency related issues. The extensive cavities created after extraction of ores/coal in mines could provide a unique opportunity for storage and extraction of thermal energy. This paper shows that underground backfilled stopes present a viable potential for being retrofitted to thermal energy storage batteries

This research addresses the integrated lot-sizing and scheduling problem with complex setup structure in which the required raw materials are hazardous and the inherent risk of hazardous materials (HAZMATs) in case of incidents leads to disruptions and dangerous consequences for the environment and human beings. This paper proposes a reliable model based on mixed-integer programming (MIP) in which

Ascertaining sustainable development is a major issue across the globe, and the economic growth pattern achieved is a predominant reason behind this. The globalization-led economic growth achieved by the emerging economies might not be ecologically sustainable, as globalization might not have been utilized as a policy tool. Moreover, a sound policy calls for considering the entire data spectrum for

The human activity of coastal reclamation for agriculture production has caused serious environmental pollution problems and threatened the sustainable development of coastal delta area. Top soils (0-10 cm) were collected to clarify the effect of reclamation years (100y, 40y, 30y and 10y) on heavy metal pollution in reclaimed wetlands and ditch wetlands in Nansha District of the Pearl River Delta in

This article presents a Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment of an innovative slaughter concept, i.e., a semi-automated version of the Meat Factory Cell (MFC). The system is characterised by division of labour with close human-robot interaction, as compared to a Conventional Slaughter and Cutting Process (CSCP). A case study is built which considers the conditions at a Norwegian slaughter facility