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Using Building Integrated Photovoltaic Thermal (BIPV/T) Systems to Achieve Net Zero Goal: Current Trends and Future Perspectives
The rising world population and increasing shift toward reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have highlighted the importance of cleaner and...
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The Integrated Design Studio as a Means to Achieve Zero Net Energy Buildings
The chapter describes the authors’ view on how to create an effective educational environment that inspires architectural students to design a...
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Green Urbanism with Genuine Green Architecture: Toward Net Zero System in New York
Changes that have taken place in the world over the past 30 years, including ecological disturbances and radical changes in traditional settlements,...
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Using Co-benefits of Sustainable Building to Drive Net Zero Emissions in Southeast Asia: Findings of Two Evidence-Informed Stakeholder Dialogues
Co-benefits of sustainable building are rarely used to promote policy reform. Two stakeholder dialogues were convened by Monash University, Australia...
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New Regeneration Scenarios to Improve the Livability in Villages
The paper presents some of the results of research carried out by the authors on the small towns, which are characterized by demographic and economic...
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Urban Regeneration Processes of Public Housing in the Mediterranean Area: A Multiscale and Multisystem Approach
The theme of urban regeneration of public housing settlements, where disadvantaged and often marginalized communities live, has gained increasing...
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Adsorption performance of tartrazine dye from wastewater by raw and modified biomaterial: Equilibrium, isotherms, kinetics and regeneration studies
The massive generation of dye waste leads to environmental, social and ecological problems. The use of biomass-derived activated carbon as an...
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Activated carbon from chili straw: K2CO3 activation mechanism, adsorption of dyes, and thermal regeneration
Activated carbon (AC cs ) from chili straw was prepared by sequential carbonization and K 2 CO 3 activation and applied for adsorption of cationic...
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Non-competitive and competitive detoxification of As(III) ions from single and binary biosorption systems and biosorbent regeneration
The quantity of studies reporting on single-metal sorption systems is increasing every day while the elimination of heavy metals in binary and...
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Utilizing orange peel waste biomass in textile wastewater treatment and its recyclability for dual biogas and biochar production: a techno-economic sustainable approach
AbstractOrange peel is a fruit-based biomass produced in huge quantities worldwide, requiring an appropriate management strategy to meet the...
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A European Atlas of Urban Regeneration Projects: City Fact Sheets
In this chapter the documental analysis of the strategies of the individual cities chosen by the authors will be carried out on two levels: the first...
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Hydrochar from Shorea spp.: a dual-purpose approach for sustainable biofuel and efficient methylene blue adsorbent
This study delves into the multifaceted potential of hydrochar from a locally sourced wood species ( Shorea spp.) as both an energy source and an...
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Dye removal using novel adsorbents synthesized from plastic waste and eggshell: mechanism, isotherms, kinetics, thermodynamics, regeneration, and water matrices
High-density polyethylene (HDPE) waste and chicken eggshell were used to synthesize three novel adsorbents, namely mesoporous graphene (MG),...
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Technological Solutions
As one of the pillars of decarbonization, technology plays an important role in reaching the ultimate goal of achieving net-zero carbon by 2050.
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Characteristic evaluation of tamarind flower biomass for mercury biosorption: statistical approach
This investigation has mainly focused on mercury biosorption from industrial wastewater using the tamarind flower ( Tamarindus indica ) as agricultural...
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Decarbonization
This chapter describes the pathways to convert emitted (or otherwise wasted) CO2 into more valuable products or chemical feedstock (CU) as means for...
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Bundanon Art Museum and Bridge
Over the summer of 2019/2020, Australia’s east coast was indelibly marked by bushfires of an unprecedented intensity. Autumn 2022 saw it inundated by...
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A coal-fired power plant integrated with biomass co-firing and CO2 capture for zero carbon emission
A promising scheme for coal-fired power plants in which biomass co-firing and carbon dioxide capture technologies are adopted and the low-temperature...
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Climate Change: New Ways to Inhabit the Earth
The text begins by proposing a critical reading of the climate crisis, aimed at pointing out the need for a collective consciousness allowing...
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Cellulose–kaolin incorporated polymeric hydrogels and its application for dye removal: batch study and mechanism
Continuous growth in textile, paper, rubber, and plastic industries has promoted a significant amount of pollutant dye emanations from wastewater...
