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Recent advances in green energy and product productions, environmentally friendly, healthier and safer technologies and processes, CO2 capturing, storage and recycling, and sustainability assessment in decision-making

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This paper presents a short overview of some of the more current advances related to the productions of green energy and products; to environmentally friendly, healthier and safer technologies and processes; advances in CO2 capturing, storage, and recycling; and novel methods for sustainability assessment in decision-making. The presented innovative research and development represents small, yet important parts of ongoing critical activities brought about to master one of the more significant challenges of our society—reversing the perilous trends related to environmental destruction. It is a further development of the issues overviewed by Klemeš and Varbanov (Clean Technol Environ Policy 15(3):417–422, 2013) previously. The overviewed papers present an important contribution to cleaner production and environmental policy.

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The authors acknowledge the financial support from EC FP7 Project ENER/FP7/296003/EFENIS ‘Efficient Energy Integrated Solutions for Manufacturing Industries—EFENIS’, and from the Slovenian Research Agency (Program No. P2-0032).

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  1. Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of Maribor, Smetanova ulica 17, 2000, Maribor, Slovenia

    Zdravko Kravanja

  2. Centre for Process Integration and Intensification - CPI2, Faculty of Information Technology, University of Pannonia, Egyetem utca 10, Veszprém, 8200, Hungary

    Petar Sabev Varbanov & Jiří Jaromír Klemeš

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Kravanja, Z., Varbanov, P.S. & Klemeš, J.J. Recent advances in green energy and product productions, environmentally friendly, healthier and safer technologies and processes, CO2 capturing, storage and recycling, and sustainability assessment in decision-making. Clean Techn Environ Policy 17, 1119–1126 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10098-015-0995-9

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