Technologies and policies to decarbonize global industry: Review and assessment of mitigation drivers through 2070
J. Rissman, C. Bataille, E. Masanet
et al.
Abstract Fully decarbonizing global industry is essential to achieving climate stabilization, and reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050–2070 is necessary to limit global warming to 2 °C. This paper assembles and evaluates technical and policy interventions, both on the supply side and on the demand side. It identifies measures that, employed together, can achieve net zero industrial emissions in the required timeframe. Key supply-side technologies include energy efficiency (especially at the system level), carbon capture, electrification, and zero-carbon hydrogen as a heat source and chemical feedstock. There are also promising technologies specific to each of the three top-emitting industries: cement, iron & steel, and chemicals & plastics. These include cement admixtures and alternative chemistries, several technological routes for zero-carbon steelmaking, and novel chemical catalysts and separation technologies. Crucial demand-side approaches include material-efficient design, reductions in material waste, substituting low-carbon for high-carbon materials, and circular economy interventions (such as improving product longevity, reusability, ease of refurbishment, and recyclability). Strategic, well-designed policy can accelerate innovation and provide incentives for technology deployment. High-value policies include carbon pricing with border adjustments or other price signals; robust government support for research, development, and deployment; and energy efficiency or emissions standards. These core policies should be supported by labeling and government procurement of low-carbon products, data collection and disclosure requirements, and recycling incentives. In implementing these policies, care must be taken to ensure a just transition for displaced workers and affected communities. Similarly, decarbonization must complement the human and economic development of low- and middle-income countries.
A short review on basalt fiber reinforced polymer composites
Vivek Dhand, G. Mittal, K. Rhee
et al.
935 sitasi
en
Materials Science
Impact of textile dyes on health and ecosystem: a review of structure, causes, and potential solutions
Tarekul Islam, M. Repon, T. Islam
et al.
Glucose oxidase--an overview.
S. Bankar, Mahesh Bule, R. Singhal
et al.
1126 sitasi
en
Medicine, Chemistry
Understanding Selectivity for the Electrochemical Reduction of Carbon Dioxide to Formic Acid and Carbon Monoxide on Metal Electrodes
Jeremy T. Feaster, C. Shi, Etosha R. Cave
et al.
Applications of Wireless Sensor Networks and Internet of Things Frameworks in the Industry Revolution 4.0: A Systematic Literature Review
Mamoona Majid, Shaista Habib, A. R. Javed
et al.
The 21st century has seen rapid changes in technology, industry, and social patterns. Most industries have moved towards automation, and human intervention has decreased, which has led to a revolution in industries, named the fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0). Industry 4.0 or the fourth industrial revolution (IR 4.0) relies heavily on the Internet of Things (IoT) and wireless sensor networks (WSN). IoT and WSN are used in various control systems, including environmental monitoring, home automation, and chemical/biological attack detection. IoT devices and applications are used to process extracted data from WSN devices and transmit them to remote locations. This systematic literature review offers a wide range of information on Industry 4.0, finds research gaps, and recommends future directions. Seven research questions are addressed in this article: (i) What are the contributions of WSN in IR 4.0? (ii) What are the contributions of IoT in IR 4.0? (iii) What are the types of WSN coverage areas for IR 4.0? (iv) What are the major types of network intruders in WSN and IoT systems? (v) What are the prominent network security attacks in WSN and IoT? (vi) What are the significant issues in IoT and WSN frameworks? and (vii) What are the limitations and research gaps in the existing work? This study mainly focuses on research solutions and new techniques to automate Industry 4.0. In this research, we analyzed over 130 articles from 2014 until 2021. This paper covers several aspects of Industry 4.0, from the designing phase to security needs, from the deployment stage to the classification of the network, the difficulties, challenges, and future directions.
501 sitasi
en
Computer Science, Medicine
Overview of the Antimicrobial Compounds Produced by Members of the Bacillus subtilis Group
S. Caulier, Catherine Nannan, A. Gillis
et al.
Over the last seven decades, applications using members of the Bacillus subtilis group have emerged in both food processes and crop protection industries. Their ability to form survival endospores and the plethora of antimicrobial compounds they produce has generated an increased industrial interest as food preservatives, therapeutic agents and biopesticides. In the growing context of food biopreservation and biological crop protection, this review suggests a comprehensive way to visualize the antimicrobial spectrum described within the B. subtilis group, including volatile compounds. This classification distinguishes the bioactive metabolites based on their biosynthetic pathways and chemical nature: i.e., ribosomal peptides (RPs), volatile compounds, polyketides (PKs), non-ribosomal peptides (NRPs), and hybrids between PKs and NRPs. For each clade, the chemical structure, biosynthesis and antimicrobial activity are described and exemplified. This review aims at constituting a convenient and updated classification of antimicrobial metabolites from the B. subtilis group, whose complex phylogeny is prone to further development.
600 sitasi
en
Medicine, Biology
Structures, Properties and Applications of Alginates
Roya Abka-Khajouei, Latifa Tounsi, N. Shahabi
et al.
Alginate is a hydrocolloid from algae, specifically brown algae, which is a group that includes many of the seaweeds, like kelps and an extracellular polymer of some bacteria. Sodium alginate is one of the best-known members of the hydrogel group. The hydrogel is a water-swollen and cross-linked polymeric network produced by the simple reaction of one or more monomers. It has a linear (unbranched) structure based on d-mannuronic and l-guluronic acids. The placement of these monomers depending on the source of its production is alternating, sequential and random. The same arrangement of monomers can affect the physical and chemical properties of this polysaccharide. This polyuronide has a wide range of applications in various industries including the food industry, medicine, tissue engineering, wastewater treatment, the pharmaceutical industry and fuel. It is generally recognized as safe when used in accordance with good manufacturing or feeding practice. This review discusses its application in addition to its structural, physical, and chemical properties.
A critical review on advances in the practices and perspectives for the treatment of dye industry wastewater
Toral Shindhal, Parita Rakholiya, Sunita Varjani
et al.
ABSTRACT Rapid industrialization has provided comforts to mankind but has also impacted the environment harmfully. There has been severe increase in the pollution due to several industries, in particular due to dye industry, which generate huge quantities of wastewater containing hazardous chemicals. Although tremendous developments have taken place for the treatment and management of such wastewater through chemical or biological processes, there is an emerging shift in the approach, with focus shifting on resource recovery from such wastewater and also their management in sustainable manner. This review article aims to present and discuss the most advanced and state-of-art technical and scientific developments about the treatment of dye industry wastewater, which include advanced oxidation process, membrane filtration technique, microbial technologies, bio-electrochemical degradation, photocatalytic degradation, etc. Among these technologies, microbial degradation seems highly promising for resource recovery and sustainability and has been discussed in detail as a promising approach. This paper also covers the challenges and future perspectives in this field. GRAPHICAL ABSTARCT
Mine tailings dams: Characteristics, failure, environmental impacts, and remediation
D. Kossoff, W. Dubbin, M. Alfredsson
et al.
On a global scale demand for the products of the extractive industries is ever increasing. Extraction of the targeted resource results in the concurrent production of a significant volume of waste material, including tailings, which are mixtures of crushed rock and processing fluids from mills, washeries or concentrators that remain after the extraction of economic metals, minerals, mineral fuels or coal. The volume of tailings is normally far in excess of the liberated resource, and the tailings often contain potentially hazardous contaminants. A priority for a reasonable and responsible mining organization must be to proactively isolate the tailings so as to forestall them from entering groundwaters, rivers, lakes and the wind. There is ample evidence that, should such tailings enter these environments they may contaminate food chains and drinking water. Furthermore, the tailings undergo physical and chemical change after they have been deposited. The chemical changes are most often a function of exposure to atmospheric oxidation and tends to make previously, perhaps safely held contaminants mobile and available. If the tailings are stored under water, contact with the atmosphere is substantially reduced, thereby forestalling oxygen-mediated chemical change. It is therefore accepted practice for tailings to be stored in isolated impoundments under water and behind dams. However, these dams frequently fail, releasing enormous quantities of tailings into river catchments. These accidents pose a serious threat to animal and human health and are of concern for extractive industries and the wider community. It is therefore of importance to understand the nature of the material held within these dams, what best safety practice is for these structures and, should the worst happen, what adverse effects such accidents might have on the wider environment and how these might be mitigated. This paper reviews these factors, covering the characteristics, types and magnitudes, environmental impacts, and remediation of mine tailings dam failures.
A homochiral metal–organic porous material for enantioselective separation and catalysis
J. Seo, D. Whang, Hyoyoung Lee
et al.
3277 sitasi
en
Chemistry, Medicine
Treatment of organic pollution in industrial saline wastewater: a literature review.
O. Lefebvre, R. Moletta
1179 sitasi
en
Engineering, Medicine
Optimization of Chemical Processes
T. Edgar, D. Himmelblau, L. Lasdon
1017 sitasi
en
Mathematics
Castor oil: a vital industrial raw material.
D. Ogunniyi
1023 sitasi
en
Environmental Science, Medicine
Fractionation of lignocellulosics by steam-aqueous pretreatments
R. Overend, E. Chornet
Pearson's chemical analysis of foods
H. Egan, R. S. Kirk, R. Sawyer
Quantum Field Approaches to Chemical Systems
Reza Karimpour, Matteo Gori, Alexandre Tkatchenko
Quantum-matter theory (QMT), based on the Schrödinger or Dirac equations, is firmly established for both intra- and intermolecular interactions. However, there are two key issues with QMT. First, its applicability to large molecular complexes is hindered by the relatively high computational cost of the calculations required to achieve high accuracy. Second, fields are also quantum objects that produce many intriguing effects beyond standard QMT approaches to molecular systems. This review focuses on recent developments in quantum-field theory (QFT) approaches to both covalent and non-covalent interactions for molecules in vacuum and subject to environments such as cavities and solvents. QFT provides a rich playground for novel chemical theories and insights. For example, chemical reactions and van der Waals interactions can be manipulated by cavities, boundaries, and optical excitations; novel interactions emerge when molecules interact with quantized fields; systems with millions of atoms could soon be treated with coarse-grained QFT formalisms; and unexpected scaling laws for atomic and molecular properties can emerge when QFT is applied to sets of chemical systems. This review sets the stage for an exciting QFT-driven path for further development of chemical theory.
en
physics.chem-ph, quant-ph
Biofilm formation and food safety in food industries
Xianming Shi, Xin-na Zhu
Chemical Control for the Morphogenesis of Conducting Polymer Dendrites in Water
Antoine Baron, Corentin Scholaert, David Guérin
et al.
Conducting polymer dendrite (CPD) morphogenesis is an electrochemical process that unlocks the potential to implement in materio evolving intelligence in electrical systems: As an electronic device experiences transient voltages in an open-space wet environment, electrically conductive structures physically change over time, programming the filtering properties of an interconnect as a non-linear analog device. Mimicking the self-preservation strategies of some sessile organisms, CPDs adapt their morphology to the environment they grow in. Either studied as an electrochemical experiment or as neuromorphic devices, the dependence of CPDs' electrical properties on the chemical nature of their environment is still unreported, despite the inter-dependence between the electrical properties of the electrogenerated material and the chemical composition of their growth medium. In this study, we report on the existing intrication between the nature and concentration of the electrolytes, electroactive compounds and co-solvents and the electrical and the electrochemical properties of CPDs in water. CPDs exhibit various chemical sensitivities in water: their morphology is highly dependent on the nature of the chemical resources available in their environment. The selection of these resources therefore critically influence morphogenesis. Also, concentrations have different impacts on growth dynamics, conditioning the balance between thermodynamic and kinetic control on polymer electrosynthesis. By correlating the dependencies of these evolving objects with the availability of the chemical resources in an aqueous environment, this study proposes guidelines to tune the degree of evolution of electronic materials in water. Such hardware is envisioned to exploit the chemical complexity of real world environments as part of information processing technologies.
en
physics.chem-ph, physics.app-ph
Efficient Exploration of Chemical Kinetics
Rohit Goswami
Estimating reaction rates and chemical stability is fundamental, yet efficient methods for large-scale simulations remain out of reach despite advances in modeling and exascale computing. Direct simulation is limited by short timescales; machine-learned potentials require large data sets and struggle with transition state regions essential for reaction rates. Reaction network exploration with sufficient accuracy is hampered by the computational cost of electronic structure calculations, and even simplifications like harmonic transition state theory rely on prohibitively expensive saddle point searches. Surrogate model-based acceleration has been promising but hampered by overhead and numerical instability. This dissertation presents a holistic solution, co-designing physical representations, statistical models, and systems architecture in the Optimal Transport Gaussian Process (OT-GP) framework. Using physics-aware optimal transport metrics, OT-GP creates compact, chemically relevant surrogates of the potential energy surface, underpinned by statistically robust sampling. Alongside EON software rewrites for long timescale simulations, we introduce reinforcement learning approaches for both minimum-mode following (when the final state is unknown) and nudged elastic band methods (when endpoints are specified). Collectively, these advances establish a representation-first, modular approach to chemical kinetics simulation. Large-scale benchmarks and Bayesian hierarchical validation demonstrate state-of-the-art performance and practical exploration of chemical kinetics, transforming a longstanding theoretical promise into a working engine for discovery.
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physics.chem-ph, cs.LG