CEST Proceedings are published under the ISSN 2944-9820.
The Quality Properties of Tire Tread With Adding Filler of a Sunflower Oil and Pinecone Powder
(Corresponding) Akpinar Borazan A., Alkan A.
Topic:
Sustainable supply of raw materials
This study, aimed to be developed economical and environmentally friendly tires by modifying commercial tire tread using pinecone powder and sunflower oil. Different additives were used in the blend formulations: stearic acid as an accelerator and softener supplement, zinc oxide to increase the...Read more
Seasonal variation of the biochemical methane potential of fruit and vegetable wastes produced in the Mediterranean area
Kalogiannis A., Vasiliadou I., (Corresponding) Stamatelatou K.
Topic:
Food waste
Fruit and vegetable wastes produced massively in open markets are a suitable feedstock for biogas production and digestate of high fertilizing value. A first step of designing anaerobic digestion systems for treating these wastes efficiently is to study the impact of the seasonal variation on the...Read more
Keywords:
biogas, fruit and vegetable wastes, Mediterranean, open markets
Lisbon – European Green Capital 2020: the allotment gardens contribution
Batista D., Matos R., Simões P.
Topic:
Spatial environmental planning
The main objective of this paper is to define the role and the importance of the urban allotment gardens in the consideration of Lisbon as the European Green Capital in 2020. In the first part of the paper, we seek to trace the historical evolution of vegetable gardens in the context of city...Read more
Use of food waste as culture media in biocementation for ground improvement applications
Mwandira W., (Corresponding) Mavroulidou M., Gunn M., Gray C.
Topic:
CIRCULAR ECONOMY AND BIOECONOMY
The paper investigates the use of mixed fruit and vegetable (FV) waste to extract liquid to grow bacteria. The bacteria will be used to induce biocementation of soils and two metabolic pathways are examined. These are the ureolytic pathway and the carbonic anhydrase pathway (which absorbs CO2)...Read more
Keywords:
GROUND IMPROVEMENT; FRUIT AND VEGETABLE; BIOCEMENTS; FOOD WASTE MANAGEMENT
