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Development of Green Technology Through Renewable and Sustainable Materials
Published in Shrikaant Kulkarni, Ann Rose Abraham, A. K. Haghi, Renewable Materials and Green Technology Products, 2021
Remya Vijayan, Sijo Francis, Beena Mathew
Green technology aimed at the development and application of products, equipment, and methods to preserve the natural resources and environment, besides reducing the harmful impacts on the environment induced by human activities. The green technology methods must be sustainable, which means it will balance the fulfillment of human societal requirements without further depletion of the remaining environment and natural resources with the intention that these requirements can be met not only in the present time but in the indefinite future. Conventional green technologies have been applied in various fields. It will give solutions to exiting environmental issues. Materials and their handling can have a vast impact on the environment. It is very important to address the environmental and economic concerns in the production of new materials. The usage of renewable and sustainable materials has growing demands in society for pollution remediation and green products. The synthesis of some renewable and sustainable materials by different methods and their application in the development of green technology is presented in this chapter.
Automotive coating industry: Sustainability challenges and smart innovations
Published in Fernando Moreira da Silva, Helena Bártolo, Paulo Bártolo, Rita Almendra, Filipa Roseta, Henrique Amorim Almeida, Ana Cristina Lemos, Challenges for Technology Innovation: An Agenda for the Future, 2017
M.T.I. Bhuiyan, H. Zhang, J. Zhu
Our society as a whole is in a vulnerable situation—economically, politically, and even morally; health care system is in a dire condition. Nature is in its worst condition ever. It is very clear that sustainable development is highly desired across the globe in various sectors. The highest emphasis goes to green innovations and smart manufacturing practices which can lead us to sustainable, in other words, long lasting prosperous economy while stopping the health and environmental calamities. However, what sustainability exactly implies, more importantly, how sustainability in different sectors of our society can be achieved, and why so difficult to achieve—those questions still deserve major research efforts. It is now very well realized the fact that the TBL (Triple Bottom Line) approach—Economic, environmental, and social welfare in business ventures including manufacturing industry is an obvious necessity for the sustainable deployment in our society (Elkington, 1997; Hall, 2011; James, Katie, Jitendra, & Bharat, 2015). Over the last few decades, the failure in commercialization and implementation of the majority of green innovations only proves that unless a green technology is more profitable it cannot compete with the existing harmful technologies. So, it is necessary to make sure during the technology innovation process that the new technology will be viable in all these three aspects (Maxwell, Sheate, & van der Vorst, 2006).
Introduction to Green Technologies
Published in Matthew N. O. Sadiku, Emerging Green Technologies, 2020
The most important benefit in applying green technology is enhancing the quality of life by ensuring a more sustainable environment. Other benefits of green technology includes recycling waste material, purifying of water, purifying the air, conserving energy, and rejuvenating ecosystems. Adoption of green technology can enhance a company's environmental reputation. Green technology is one of the fastest growing employment sectors and can generate job opportunities for those who are passionate about conserving the environment.
Evaluation of rubberised asphalt mixture including natural Zeolite as a warm mix asphalt (WMA) additive
Published in International Journal of Pavement Engineering, 2022
Mahmoud Ameri, Sepehr V. Abdipour, Arash Rahimi Yengejeh, Masoud Shahsavari, Afshar A. Yousefi
The newest technology available for road surface construction is crumb-rubber modified asphalt. It is recognised as a green technology because it saves energy, improves human health, reduces resource depletion, protects the ecosystem, and reduces pavement noise (Wang et al. 2018b; Farina et al. 2017). CR improves mechanical properties of asphalt mixture and binder such as rheological behaviour of binder (Liu et al. 2009), fatigue cracking (Wang et al. 2013), rutting resistance (Kök and Çolak 2011; Lee et al. 2008), reflective and thermal cracking of asphalt pavements (Yildirim 2007), and pavements skid resistance (Huang et al. 2007; Lo Presti 2013). Rubberised Asphalt (RA) needs higher mixing and compaction temperature, while creating additional difficulties, such as reduced workability and pumping ability, higher viscosity, and reduced storage stability (Bindu et al. 2020; Memon et al. 2021) as well as resulting in more energy consumption and higher construction cost (Yengejeh et al. 2020; Jahanbakhsh et al. 2020).
Multi-directional local search for sustainable supply chain network design
Published in International Journal of Production Research, 2021
Majid Eskandarpour, Pierre Dejax, Olivier Péton
Technology levels and transportation modes highly influence the level of emissions. The use of ‘green’ technology may reduce the amount of emissions through supply chains. Green technology might be achieved by deploying technology principles such as renewable energy, renewable raw materials, life-cycle assessment, biotechnology approach, and so forth (Doble and Kruthiventi 2007). For example, within the biomass supply chain, fast pyrolysis followed by hydroprocessing as the biomass conversion technology is more effective in reducing GHG emissions over gasification followed by Fischer–Tropsch synthesis (Gao and You 2017).
Empirical research on sustainable supply chains: IJPR’s contribution and research avenues
Published in International Journal of Production Research, 2018
Kelsey M. Taylor, Stephan Vachon
Among the market barriers identified in the literature are a lack of information about green waste diversion or disposal methods (Simpson 2010), high short-term costs involved in investing in green technology (Mittal and Sangwan 2014), and an insufficient supply of the technologies and equipment actually required for environmental enhancements (Jabbour et al. 2016). As green technologies continue to increase in popularity, some of these issues may begin to resolve themselves and open green investments up to underserved markets, like SMEs.