Waste management (New York, N.Y.)
Aug 22, 2024
Waste management researchers have identified that the correct disposal of solid waste is better addressed upstream, where people properly sort their solid waste. Sorting solid waste is a practice that requires a behaviour friendly to sorting and will...
Waste management (New York, N.Y.)
Aug 10, 2024
Preparation of activated carbons is an important way to utilize municipal sludge (MS) resources, while drying is a pretreatment method for making activated carbons from MS. In this study, machine learning techniques were used to develop moisture rati...
Waste management (New York, N.Y.)
Aug 3, 2024
Ensuring the interpretability of machine learning models in chemical engineering remains challenging due to inherent limitations and data quality issues, hindering their reliable application. In this study, a qualitatively implicit knowledge-guided m...
Waste management (New York, N.Y.)
Jul 27, 2024
Chemical pretreatment is a common method to enhance the cumulative methane yield (CMY) of lignocellulosic waste (LW) but its effectiveness is subject to various factors, and accurate estimation of methane production of pretreated LW remains a challen...
Waste management (New York, N.Y.)
Jun 28, 2024
Cities are a major source of litter pollution. Determination of the abundance and composition of plastic litter in cities is imperative for effective pollution management, environmental protection, and sustainable urban development. Therefore, here, ...
Waste management (New York, N.Y.)
May 30, 2024
Higher heating value (HHV) is one of the most important parameters in determining the quality of the fuels. In this study, comparatively large datasets of ultimate and proximate analysis are constructed to be used in HHV estimation of several classes...
Waste management (New York, N.Y.)
May 11, 2024
This research paper focuses on effective infectious municipal waste management in urban settings, highlighting a dearth of dedicated research in this domain. Unlike general or specific waste types, infectious waste poses distinct health and environme...
Waste management (New York, N.Y.)
Apr 12, 2024
Most of the existing municipal waste management (MWM) systems focus on the optimization of the waste disposal center locations and waste collection paths, which can be modeled based on the location-routing problem (LRP). This study models a green MWM...
Waste management (New York, N.Y.)
Feb 24, 2024
Aerobic composting stands as a widely-adopted method for treating organic solid waste (OSW), simultaneously producing organic fertilizers and soil amendments. This biologically-driven biochemical reaction process, however, presents challenges due to ...
Waste management (New York, N.Y.)
Feb 6, 2024
To create a clean living environment, governments around the world have hired a large number of workers to clean up waste on pavements, which is inefficient for waste management. To better alleviate this problem, relevant scholars have proposed sever...