Activated carbon is a carbonaceous material with highly porous structure. Different functionalities can be introduced to its surface by various physical and chemical treatments. Various precursors used for the synthesis of activated such as fossil fuels, agricultural wastes, lignocellulosic etc. Number papers have been reported in literature devoted synthesis, characterization, applications car...

Sustainable development is the common goal of current concepts bioeconomy and circular economy. In this sense, biorefineries platforms are a strategic factor to increase in economic balance. The incorporation renewable sources produce fuels, chemicals, energy, includes sustainability, reduction greenhouse gases (GHG), creating more manufacturing jobs fostering advancement regional social system...

An unprecedented rate of construction has profoundly increased the risk scarcity natural resources and threatened ecosystem sustainability. To establish an effective sustainable development policy, it is imperative to promote use responsible production channels, including waste recycling. Reuse harbor dredged sediment commonly investigated as a valuable alternative non-renewable needed for cons...

To meet the demand of online collaborative design, a Web-based Collaborative Working Environment (CWE) has been developed. An approach to enhance sustainable furniture design by utilizing the CWE is proposed. In this paper, the CWE framework is briefly presented, which consists of upperware, middleware and resource layers; then three key aspects of sustainable furniture design by utilizing the ...

An environmentally sustainable and thus green business process is one that delivers organizational value whilst also exerting a minimal impact on the natural environment. Recent works from the field of Information Systems (IS) have argued that information systems can contribute to the design and implementation of sustainable business processes. While prior research has investigated how informat...

Lignocellulosic materials such as agricultural residues have been recognized as potential sustainable sources of mixed sugars for fermentation to bioethanol. To obtain a high overall ethanol yield and achieve an economically feasible production process, the removal of lignin and hemicelluloses improves the accessibility of cellulosic material to hydrolytic enzymes and avoids the degradation pro...

This paper presents an ontology-based framework for the production of learning designs, focusing on the domain of sustainable energy education. An ontology of the sustainable energy development domain and educational model designed in compliance with widespread standards constitute the proposed framework to disprove the vagueness of “sustainable development” and enhance reusability and shareabi...

Although surfaces or, more precisely, the surface atomic and electronic structure, determine the way materials interact with their environment, the influence of surface chemistry on the bulk of the material is generally considered to be small. However, in the case of high surface area materials such as nanoporous solids, surface properties can start to dominate the overall material behavior. Th...

The purpose of design for sustainability, in a broad sense, is to reduce our negative impact on the environment, society, and the economy. To date, various approaches have been proposed to serve this purpose (1). These approaches commonly focus on the physical and technological qualities of sustainable products or services; for instance, reducing the amount of material used during manufacture, ...