Emerging applications of green coconut: A promising lignocellulosic biomass

Abstract

Waste accumulation is a grave concern and becoming a transboundary challenge for environment. During Covid-19 pandemic, diverse type of waste were collected due to different practices employed in order to fight back the transmission rate of the virus.Covid-19 was proved to be capricious catastrophe of this 20th century and even not completely eradicated from the world. The havoc created by this imperceptible quick witted, pleomorphic deadly virus can't be ignored. Though a number of vaccines have been developed by the scientists but there is a fear of getting this virus again in our life. Medical studies prove that immunity drinks will help to reduce its reoccurrences.Coconut water is widely used among all drinks available globally. Its massive consumption created an incalculable pile of green coconut shells around the different corners of the world. This practice generating enormous problem of space acquisition for the environment. Both the environment and public health will benefit from an evaluation of quantity of coconut waste that is being thrown and its potential to generate value added products. With this context, present article has been planned to study different aspects like, coconut waste generation, its biological properties and environmental hazards associated with its accumulation. Additionally, this review illustrates, green technologies for production of different value added products from coconut waste.

One-step preparation of direct Z-scheme NH2-UiO-66/BiOCl photocatalyst for antibiotic degradation by electrostatic adsorption

“…[8][9][10] In recent years, BiOCl has received great attention in wastewater treatment due to its excellent optical response and photooxidation capacity. [11][12][13][14] In view of its relatively wide band gap, [15][16][17][18] efficient modification methods must be developed to improve the light absorption capability of BiOCl. [19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27] At present, metal-organic framework (MOF) has been widely studied in the field of catalysis.…”