For decades, the city of Memphis, Tennessee, didn’t disinfect its wastewater. It stopped disinfecting in the 1980s because of concerns that residual chlorine would harm aquatic life and because of the ...

The ever-increasing global energy demand has so far been based on the use of fossil fuels, which has several adverse effects, such as the release of carbon dioxide, a significant contributor to ...

Pretreatment of biomass with dilute acid requires high temperatures of >160 °C to remove xylan and does not remove lignin. Here we report that the addition of peracetic acid, a strong oxidant, to mild ...