Sunsmart streets using recycled rubber last twice as long
Rubber from used tires acts like sunscreen for roads and halves the rate of sun damage when mixed with bitumen, new research has found.
May 25, 2022
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Engineering
Journal of Cleaner Production
The Journal of Cleaner Production serves as a transdisciplinary, international forum for the exchange of information and research concepts, policies, and technologies designed to help ensure progress towards making societies and regions more sustainable. It aims to encourage innovation and creativity, new and improved products, and the implementation of new, cleaner structures, systems, processes, products and services. It is also designed to stimulate the development and implementation of prevention oriented governmental policies and educational programmes.
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Website
- http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-cleaner-production/
- Impact factor
- 2.727 (2011)
Energy & Green Tech
New study reveals algae can help further reduce CO2 emissions
Argonne study shows that carbon emissions that come from making ethanol can cultivate algae which in turn can be used to make biofuel.
Feb 23, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Converting organic waste to biogas is good for the climate, but waste prevention is much better
According to a new study by Bangor University, the University of Limerick and Feedback Global, published in the Journal of Cleaner Production, biogas use should be carefully constrained to prioritize more effective climate ...
Feb 11, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Researchers identify spatial carbon footprint along coal-to-electricity chain in China
China has committed to reach its peak carbon emissions as soon as possible before 2030, and to strive to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060. Fully assessing the spatial carbon transfer associated with energy production and ...
Feb 10, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Is it sensible to use rainwater to flush the toilet?
As a world first, a new residential district in Aarhus is using secondary water from the local water utility for toilets and washing machines. The solution is supported by a life cycle assessment.
Nov 18, 2021
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Engineering
Electric soot collector shows promise in mitigating emissions from residential biomass combustion
Air pollution emitted by residential biomass combustion is a known cause of adverse health effects, such as respiratory and cardiovascular diseases, as well as adverse climate effects. Residential biomass combustion has been ...
Nov 3, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
The Basque Country's industrial waste heat could be reusable
Many traditional industrial processes generate heat that is normally released into the atmosphere but that could be reused. In production processes such as smelting, iron and steel, paper or cement, between 35 and 50 percent ...
Aug 18, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
Carbon heat pumps smart option for hotels in cold climates
Energy consumption in the hotel industry is high and contributes to global warming.
May 25, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
Microalgae identified as clean source of hydrogen production
Researchers at Monash University's Department of Chemical Engineering, IITB-Monash Research Academy Mumbai, and The Indian Institute of Technology's Department of Chemical Engineering have used reactive flash volatilisation ...
Feb 15, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
Researchers develop 'learning' microwave ovens
In a publication in the Journal of Cleaner Production, Prof. Bob van der Zwaan of the Van 't Hoff Institute of Molecular Sciences presents the first example of a learning curve for microwave ovens, which follows a learning ...
Oct 2, 2020
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