Agricultural Waste

Abstract

In recent years, the quantity of agricultural waste has been rising rapidly all over the world. As a result, the environmental problems and negative impacts of agricultural waste are drawn more and more attention. Therefore, there is a need to adopt proper approaches to reduce and reuse agricultural waste. This review presented about 200 literatures published in 2015 relating to the topic of agricultural waste. The review examined research on agricultural waste in 2015 from the following four aspects: the characterization, reuse, treatment, and management. Researchers highlighted the importance to reuse agricultural waste and investigated the potential to utilize it as biofertilizers, cultivation material, soil amendments, adsorbent, material, energy recycling, enzyme and catalyst etc. The treatment of agricultural waste included carbonization, biodegradation, composting hydrolysis and pyrolysis. Moreover, this review analyzed the differences of the research progress in 2015 from 2014. It may help to reveal the new findings and new trends in this field in 2015 comparing to 2014.

Comparison of the Moisture Adsorption Properties of Starch Particles and Flax Fiber Coatings for Energy Wheel Applications

“…The cyclic test results for the FF-coated exchanger over the multiple cycles showed that the adsorption–desorption process occurred at equilibrium conditions because latent effectiveness was equal across multiple cycles. Based on the results reported herein, FFs represent a promising and sustainable alternative biodesiccant coating for air-to-air heat exchangers in energy wheel applications, where the latent effectiveness rivals the properties of SPs biomass and other conventional solid desiccant systems (e.g., SGs). − From a techno-economic perspective, the relative biodesiccant performance of FFs and SPs reveal that FFs are a promising alternative material in view of their abundant and sustainable supply from waste agricultural biomass. , …”

“…65−68 From a techno-economic perspective, the relative biodesiccant performance of FFs and SPs reveal that FFs are a promising alternative material in view of their abundant and sustainable supply from waste agricultural biomass. 69,70 4. EXPERIMENTAL SECTION 4.1.…”

Valorization of agricultural waste to produce myco-composite materials from mushroom mycelia and their physical properties

“…Currently, the rapidly increasing global population has caused an increase in annual agricultural product consumption, which has resulted in the production of greater amounts of agricultural waste at an average rate of 5-10% per year (Wang et al, 2016;Xue et al, 2016). Agricultural waste management has always been a major concern for farmers.…”

Manufacture of Activated Carbon Adsorbents from Jackfruit Waste for Removal of Heavy Metals and Dyes from Wastewater: A Review

“…However, researchers around the world have been seen another huge potential in agricultural by-products. Therefore, the world has studied the application of agricultural by-products into new products such as animal feed, fertilizer, biological substrates, environmental treatment materials, biogas, and biopolymer [15][16][17][18][19][20]. Furthermore, the by-products of jackfruit are also applied in many production fields such as bioethanol, biogas, bio-oil, biofuel, biosorption, and activated carbon [21][22][23][24].…”

“…It can be seen that the application of environmental treatment materials from waste by-products creates the potential to help reduce the amount of waste from the environment and treat other pollutants existing in the living environment. Environmental treatment technology is very diverse, but the high cost of treatment materials [25][26] may indicate that by-products' utilization is a very potent treatment material [13][14][15]17,27]. The contribution to environmental protection, researchers have proposed to turn them into activated carbon.…”