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Unutilized Cotton Gin Trash Can Be Used for Electrical Power

According to Researchers finding sustainable markets for wood chips, gin trash, and other waste products could be viable in creating additional electrical power for a growing global population.

8 Sep 2017

Researchers Use Lignin to Create Carbon Fiber for Cars and Planes

Using trees and plants to create products such as ethanol or paper leaves behind a deposit called lignin, a component of plant cell walls. Lignin is not very useful and regularly gets burned or tossed into landfills.

24 Aug 2017

Researchers Develop New Method to Convert Plastic Waste into Insulation Foams

Each year, millions of tons of waste across the globe are caused by end-of-life vehicles, with their rubber, metal and plastic components.

8 Jun 2017

Electrochemistry Helps Recycling Lignin into Useful Chemicals

The concept of recycling is mostly linked to the packaging for household products, however, this concept can be extended to the chemistry to make them in the very first place.

8 Jun 2017

Bacteria Likely to Transform Wastewater Treatment Process

A PR issue surrounds wastewater treatment plants: People would like to be unaware of what happens to the waste they flush down their toilets. But for many microbiologists and engineers, these plants are a source of scientific developments, causing their trade organization to suggest a name change to “water resource recovery facility.”

1 Jun 2017

Cold Conversion of Food Waste into Renewable Energy and Fertilizer Could Reduce Canada's Carbon Footprint

A team of researchers from Concordia’s Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering (BCEE) in partnership with Bio-Terre Systems Inc. are keen on tackling global warming in colder climes.

1 Jun 2017

New Highly Efficient Catalyst for Breaking Resistant Chemical Bonds Simplifies Recycling of Plastic Waste

Both proteins and Kevlar have long chain molecules that are strung together by amide bonds. These powerful chemical bonds are also common to several other molecules that naturally occur and even to man-made plastics and pharmaceuticals.

29 May 2017

Gold Nanoparticles can be Used for Recycling Biofuel Waste into Useful Additive

Gold nanoparticles act as catalysts for obtaining glycerol-based valuable chemical products. A team of researchers from Tomsk Polytechnic University and their international colleagues are creating golden catalysts to recycle one of the key byproducts of biofuel manufacture.

24 May 2017

New Plutonium Discovery Leads to Development of New Technologies for Cleaning Nuclear Waste

Plutonium has played a significant role in nuclear energy strategies of many countries for a prolonged time period. However, scientists are still exploring the mysteries behind this complicated element and studying how they can clean up nuclear waste by using heavier, nuclear elements.

9 May 2017

New Method to Recycle Carbon Fiber Plastics

For the very first time, a WSU research team has developed a promising method that will help recycle the popular carbon fiber plastics used in everything from sporting goods and modern airplanes to the wind energy industry.

3 May 2017