Search results for: SPENT HOPS

• More than just a beer – Brewers' spent grain, spent hops, and spent yeast as potential functional fillers for polymer composites

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  • A. Hejna
  • M. Barczewski
  • P. Kosmela
  • J. Aniśko
  • J. Szulc
  • K. Skórczewska
  • A. Piasecki
  • T. Kuang

  - WASTE MANAGEMENT - Year 2024

  Beer is among the most popular beverages in the world, with the production distributed uniformly between the biggest continents, so the utilization of brewing by-products is essential on a global scale. Among their potential recipients, the plastics industry offers extensive range of potential products. Herein, the presented study investigated the application of currently underutilized solid brewing by-products (brewers' spent...

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• More than just a beer—the potential applications of by-products from beer manufacturing in polymer technology

  Publication

  • A. Hejna

  - Emergent Materials - Year 2021

  Beer is the most popular alcoholic beverage in the world, and its popularity is continuously growing. Currently, global beer production is estimated at around 2 billion hectoliters. Nevertheless, the increasing production capacity implicates the rising issue of generated by-products—brewers’ spent grain, spent hops, spent yeast, and wastewater. They are generated in massive amounts, so having in mind the current pro-ecological...

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