Green Processing: Green Processing of Carbon Nanomaterials (Adv. Mater. 25/2017)

Solvent replacement for green processing.

The implementation of the Montreal Protocol, the Clean Air Act, and the Pollution Prevention Act of 1990 has resulted in increased awareness of organic solvent use in chemical processing. The advances made in the search to find "green" replacements for traditional solvents are reviewed, with reference to solvent alternatives for cleaning, coatings, and chemical reaction and separation processes...

Green Computing in Image Processing: An Assessment

Green computing is the process of reducing the power consumed by a computer and thereby reducing carbon emissions. The total power consumed by the computer excluding the monitor at its fully computative load is equal to the sum of the power consumed by the GPU in its idle state and the CPU at its full state. Recently, there have been tremendous interests in the acceleration of general computing...

Predicting green: really radical (plant) predictive processing

In this article we account for the way plants respond to salient features of their environment under the free-energy principle for biological systems. Biological self-organization amounts to the minimization of surprise over time. We posit that any self-organizing system must embody a generative model whose predictions ensure that (expected) free energy is minimized through action. Plants respo...

Green recovery of pectic polysaccharides from citrus canning processing water

Canned citrus segments are popularly consumed worldwide with a large global market. However, the production needs chemical treatment to remove segments membranes, producing a large amount of acidic and basic effluents with very high chemical oxygen demand (COD), causing serious environmental problems. This research is focused on the plant scale recovery of pectic polysaccharides from the above ...

Carbon dioxide in biomass processing: contributions to the green biorefinery concept.