Publications by authors named "Pei-Cheng Cheng"

Petroleum serves as a critical energy source and industrial raw material, yet its leakage frequently leads to severe soil contamination. Traditional remediation methods for petroleum-contaminated soil are often energy-intensive and associated with high carbon emissions. To address climate change challenges, it is imperative to adopt green and sustainable remediation technologies that reduce energy consumption and carbon footprints simultaneously.

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The exploitation of lignocellulosic biomass (LB) such as sugar bagasse waste in biorefineries is the most cost-effective and favourable sustainable approach to producing essential platform chemicals, materials, and energy environmentally benignly. Herein, a microwave-mediated deep eutectic solvents (DESs)/dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) system for efficiently processing LB waste into platform chemicals was proposed thereof. Under optimized appropriate diverse parameters such as solvent varieties, catalyst dosage, DMSO addition, reaction time and temperature, the proposed catalytic system (i.

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  • Fine particulate matter (PM) from gasoline-fueled vehicles is a major air pollutant that poses risks to health and urban air quality, making its chemical composition critical for understanding climate change and pollution control.
  • The study focused on PM emissions from 15 vehicles, analyzing the chemical makeup, including carbon components (organic carbon and elemental carbon) and metallic elements like calcium and iron.
  • Using Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectroscopy (ICP-OES), researchers found that elemental and organic carbon were the most prevalent types of carbonaceous species in the PM emissions.
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  • * Researchers sampled fifteen different vehicles to measure concentrations of sixteen priority PAHs, considering the various Euro emission standards established by European legislation.
  • * The findings revealed that the average total PAH concentration in the emissions was 0.377 ng/L-fuel, with a specific concentration for benzo[a]pyrene equivalent (BaPeq) at 0.00993 ng/L-fuel, indicating significant health risks from gasoline exhaust exposure.
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The technology for remediating heavy metal-contaminated soil is considerably limited because heavy metals do not undergo decomposition. Off-site reuse has emerged as the main technique for treating heavy metal-contaminated soil. Soil is the primary material in red brick making; and in the sintering procedure, heavy metals could solidify and stabilize within bricks.

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  • Road traffic significantly contributes to particulate matter (PM) pollution in the atmosphere, with diesel vehicles being a major source, particularly in urban areas like Kaohsiung City, Taiwan.
  • The study investigates PM emissions and the concentration of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in exhaust from diesel vehicles, analyzing a range of vehicles with different mileage accumulations (from 8,733 to 965,026 km).
  • Findings reveal that lower mileage vehicles emit less CO and NOx, while emissions tend to fluctuate with increasing mileage, possibly due to improvements in vehicle technology over the years.
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