Designing a framework for municipal solid waste management towards sustainability in emerging economy countries - An application to a case study in Belo Horizonte (Brazil)

Fuss, Maryegli; Barros, Raphael Tobias de Vasconcelos; Poganietz, Witold‐Roger

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.01.051

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“…engineering. Viewing miscanthus in this way provides sustainable biomass management options 41 and directly supports the views of Whetten 42 , in that this study can be considered as a forward-thinking & expansive step and building block in the theoretical aspects of carbon nanotubes and their synthesis to create a value-added product with enhanced roles and properties to their precursor counterpart. Opening these avenues for an otherwise problematic waste stream with limited utilisation options directly follows the mantra of sustainability and provides a foreground for these applications to be tested further in other studies.…”

Section: Results and Discussion Of Lignocellulosic Biomass Characterisupporting

confidence: 71%

The production and application of carbon nanomaterials from high alkali silicate herbaceous biomass

Osman

Farrell

Al-Muhtaseb

et al. 2020

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Herein, value-added materials such as activated carbon and carbon nanotubes were synthesized from low-value Miscanthus × giganteus lignocellulosic biomass. A significant drawback of using Miscanthus in an energy application is the melting during the combustion due to its high alkali silicate content. An application of an alternative approach was proposed herein for synthesis of activated carbon from Miscanthus × giganteus, where the produced activated carbon possessed a high surface area and pore volume of 0.92 cm 3 .g −1 after two activation steps using phosphoric acid and potassium hydroxide. The S Bet of the raw biomass, after first activation and second activation methods showed 17, 1142 and 1368 m 2 .g −1 , respectively. Transforming this otherwise waste material into a useful product where its material properties can be utilized is an example of promoting the circular economy by valorising waste lignocellulosic biomass to widely sought-after high surface area activated carbon and subsequently, unconventional multi-walled carbon nanotubes. This was achieved when the activated carbon produced was mixed with nitrogen-based material and iron precursor, where it produced hydrophilic multiwall carbon nanotubes with a contact angle of θ = 9.88°, compared to the raw biomass. synthesised materials were tested in heavy metal removal tests using a lead solution, where the maximum lead absorption was observed for sample AC-K, with a 90% removal capacity after the first hour of testing. The synthesis of these up-cycled materials can have potential opportunities in the areas of wastewater treatment or other activated carbon/carbon nanotube end uses with a rapid cycle time.

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Section: Results and Discussion Of Lignocellulosic Biomass Characterisupporting

confidence: 71%

The production and application of carbon nanomaterials from high alkali silicate herbaceous biomass

Osman

Farrell

Al-Muhtaseb

et al. 2020

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“…The implementation of smart waste management systems is still in the embryonic stage (Fuss et al, 2018). Arguably, it is an increasingly complex problem that involves citizens' behavior, product designers, producers and policy-makers (Aljerf, 2018;Zhang et al, 2019) and, therefore, involves infrastructure-and management-related aspects of operationalizing the technologies.…”

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Barriers to smart waste management for a circular economy in China

Zhang

Venkatesh²,

Liu

et al. 2019

Journal of Cleaner Production

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“…Considering these linear trends over the recent few decades, waste management has found a focal place in devising sustainable policies and achieving economic goals [3] [4]. Consequently, World bank has recognized solid waste management as of the most demanding areas not only for protecting environment [7] but also for boosting the economy by intelligent handling of waste disposals and production [11] [12].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…One of the challenges in effective waste management is the complexity of current waste management mechanisms. Waste management authorities are interested in coming up with optimal waste management policies to protect the environment from harmful impacts [7]. Some of the principal articles of these policies include proper management of waste such as waste prevention in the first place [8], recycling waste, recovery, and reuse of waste, reducing the cost of waste management operation, disposal of waste [9] [10].…”

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Optimal Policy-Making for Municipal Waste Management Based on Predictive Model Optimization

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Designing a framework for municipal solid waste management towards sustainability in emerging economy countries - An application to a case study in Belo Horizonte (Brazil)

Cited by 63 publications

References 39 publications

The production and application of carbon nanomaterials from high alkali silicate herbaceous biomass

The production and application of carbon nanomaterials from high alkali silicate herbaceous biomass

Barriers to smart waste management for a circular economy in China

Optimal Policy-Making for Municipal Waste Management Based on Predictive Model Optimization

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