The nexus between energy and the environment is a critical concern in today's world, as the need for sustainable energy sources becomes increasingly evident due to the challenges posed by climate change and resource depletion. Keeping up with the latest developments and research in this field is essential for informed decision-making and policy formulation.
Our latest article:
Enhancing and upgrading biogas and biomethane production in anaerobic digestion: a comprehensive review
Abstract: Anaerobic digestion (AD) processes can face operational challenges or flaws such as substrate structure and characteristics complexity, process complexity, low productivity, inefficient biodegradability, and poor stability, which suppresses or reduces biogas and biomethane production. As a result of the need to overcome these challenges/shortcomings and improve or enhance biogas and biomethane yield, process intensification methods have gained attention. There is some literature review on pretreatment and co-digestion as a means of improving AD performance; however, there is no systematic information on the various strategies required for improving AD performance and, in turn, increasing biogas/biomethane yield. The AD process produces biogas, a valuable renewable biofuel. Biogas is composed primarily of biomethane and other undesirable components such as carbon dioxide, oxygen, hydrogen sulphide, water vapour, ammonia, siloxanes, nitrogen, hydrocarbons, and carbon monoxide, which act as impurities or contaminants and tend to reduce the biogas specific calorific value while also causing various problems with machine operation. As a result, various technologies are used to improve raw biogas quality by removing contaminants during biogas transformation to biomethane. As a result, this paper provides a comprehensive review of the various systematic process intensification strategies used to overcome AD process challenges/shortfalls, improve or enhance biogas and biomethane production, and conventional and emerging or advanced technologies for biogas purification, cleaning, and upgrading.
Another one of our latest articles:
Decoding Anaerobic Digestion: A Holistic Analysis of Biomass Waste Technology, Process Kinetics, and Operational Variables
Abstract: The continual generation and discharge of waste are currently considered two of the main environmental problems worldwide. There are several waste management options that can be applied, though anaerobic digestion (AD) process technology seems to be one of the best, most reliable, and feasible technological options that have attracted remarkable attention due to its benefits, including the generation of renewable energy in the form of biogas and biomethane. There is a large amount of literature available on AD; however, with the continuous, progressive, and innovative technological development and implementation, as well as the inclusion of increasingly complex systems, it is necessary to update current knowledge on AD process technologies, process variables and their role on AD performance, and the kinetic models that are most commonly used to describe the process-reaction kinetics. This paper, therefore, reviewed the AD process technologies for treating or processing organic biomass waste with regard to its classification, the mechanisms involved in the process, process variables that affect the performance, and the process kinetics. Gazing into the future, research studies on reduced MS-AD operational cost, integrated or hybrid AD-biorefinery technology, integrated or hybrid AD-thermochemical process, novel thermochemical reactor development, nutrient recovery from integrated AD-thermochemical process, and solid and liquid residual disposal techniques are more likely to receive increased attention for AD process technology of biomass wastes.
I recommend reading my books and articles on the use of fossil fuels and renewable energy sources for electricity generation in Latin America and the Caribbean, North America, and Europe, which include the advantages and disadvantages of the use of these energy sources and their impact on the environment and population. You can find the references of these books and articles in RG.
Following Research articles might be useful for your future review on biomass energy:
Biodiesel production from microalgal biomass by Lewis acidic deep eutectic solvent catalysed direct transesterification
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0926669023014905
Determination of active sites on the synthesis of novel Lewis acidic deep eutectic solvent catalysts and kinetic studies in microalgal biodiesel production
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2023/ra/d3ra00543g
Water-plasma-enhanced and phase-separation-assisted extraction of microalgal lipid for biodiesel production
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0960852422005272
Enhanced biodiesel production from wet microalgae biomass optimized via response surface methodology and artificial neural network
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0960148121016761
Enhanced isolation of lipids from microalgal biomass with high water content for biodiesel production
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0960852419310648
One-step production of biodiesel from wet and unbroken microalgae biomass using deep eutectic solvent
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0960852417305266
A new approach of microalgal biomass pretreatment using deep eutectic solvents for enhanced lipid recovery for biodiesel production
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0960852416307945
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