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Sustainable and Innovative Agriculture in Issues of Energy Production and Food Safety

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Agriculture".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2024 | Viewed by 901

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Bogdan Saletnik

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Department of Bioenergetics, Food Analysis and Microbiology, Institute of Food Technology and Nutrition, College of Life Sciences, University of Rzeszow, 2D Ćwiklińskiej Street, 35-601 Rzeszow, Poland
Interests: thermal modification of plant materials—pyrolysis; biochar in the agri-food sector; mobility of heavy metals in the soil-water environment; analysis of energy value and elemental composition of food products and plant biomass
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Dr. Marcin Bajcar

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Department of Bioenergetics, Food Analysis and Microbiology, Institute of Food Technology and Nutrition, College of Life Sciences, University of Rzeszow, 2D Ćwiklińskiej Street, 35-601 Rzeszow, Poland
Interests: functional beverages; sports drinks; hydration; dehydration; CHO-enriched beverages; lipid-enriched beverages; protein-enriched beverages; osmolality; athletes; performance; recovery
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Prof. Dr. Grzegorz Zaguła

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Department of Bioenergetics, Food Analysis and Microbiology, Institute of Food Technology and Nutrition, College of Life Sciences, University of Rzeszow, 2D Ćwiklińskiej Street, 35-601 Rzeszow, Poland
Interests: functional beverages; sports drinks; hydration; dehydration; CHO-enriched beverages; lipid-enriched beverages; protein-enriched beverages; osmolality; athletes; performance; recovery
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. The main aim of individual innovative activities is the sustainable and economical use of resources combined with environmental requirements and food safety. Agriculture plays the most important role in creating food security and safe food. The effects of activities used in agricultural production, taking into account environmental conditions, influence the availability of food as well as the quality of manufactured products. The use of various types of production systems, such as ecological or environmentally sustainable systems, and the implementation of innovative systems can influence the environment and thus food quality and the health of consumers. In turn, the search for and improvement of alternative energy sources is crucial for energy and environmental protection, and broadly defined sustainable development. The argument for exploring new technologies, including those using biomass and crop production, is the slow depletion of fossil fuel resources, including hard coal, lignite, oil and natural gas. Less and less favourable forecasts cause prices of these raw materials to rise on the world market, which, without using new technologies, could lead to conflicts and crises.

In this Special Issue, authors are actively invited to submit their papers covering high-quality novel research, as well as review studies regarding current research and innovations used in agriculture for energy and food production. This Special Issue is devoted to interdisciplinary research on plant production systems, methods of plant raw material processing, production of biofuels and high-quality foods.

I look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Bogdan Saletnik
Dr. Marcin Bajcar
Prof. Dr. Grzegorz Zaguła
Guest Editors

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

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Keywords

  • innovations in agriculture
  • sustainable agriculture
  • food production
  • food safety
  • food preservation methods
  • biochar
  • pyrolysis
  • waste management
  • carbon sequestration
  • soil fertilization
  • magnetic fields

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Preliminary Tests of Tomato Plant Protection Method with Ozone Gas Fumigation Supported with Hydrogen Peroxide Solution and Its Effect on Some Fruit Parameters
by Miłosz Zardzewiały, Natalia Matłok, Tomasz Piechowiak, Bogdan Saletnik, Maciej Balawejder and Józef Gorzelany
Sustainability 2024, 16(8), 3481; https://doi.org/10.3390/su16083481 - 22 Apr 2024
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The aim of this research was to determine the impact of hydrogen peroxide spraying and ozone gas fumigation during the growing season of tomato plants grown under cover on the mechanical and chemical parameters of fruit harvested from these plants. Tomato plants were [...] Read more.
The aim of this research was to determine the impact of hydrogen peroxide spraying and ozone gas fumigation during the growing season of tomato plants grown under cover on the mechanical and chemical parameters of fruit harvested from these plants. Tomato plants were grown under cover in accordance with the principles of good agricultural practice in the soil and climatic conditions of southeastern Poland. During the growing season, tomato fruits were collected for testing in order to determine the impact of the applied variable factors on the modification of selected metabolic pathways of bioactive compounds. As part of the tests on the chemical properties of the fruits, the content of ascorbic acid, the total content of polyphenols, and the antioxidant potential were determined. Additionally, the influence of the tested variable factors on the mechanical properties of tomato fruits was determined. In the case of the total polyphenol content, the most beneficial effects were observed for fruits collected from plants treated with ozonation at a dose of 2 ppm for 3 min and spraying the plants with 1% hydrogen peroxide. The highest antioxidant potential was recorded for fruits of the variants ozonated with doses of 2 ppm for 1 min, 2 ppm for 1.5 min, and 2 ppm for 3 min compared to the remaining variants and controls. In turn, the vitamin C content increased significantly in the tested fruits after the ozonation of plants with a dose of 2 ppm for 1 min and ozonation with a dose of 2 ppm for 3 min combined with spraying plants with 3% hydrogen peroxide. In the case of the mechanical properties of tomato fruits, only the ozonation dose of 2 ppm for 3 min significantly improved them. Full article
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Pyrolysis as a Method for Processing of Waste from Production of Cultivated Tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.)
by Bogdan Saletnik, Marcin Fiedur, Radosław Kwarciany, Grzegorz Zaguła and Marcin Bajcar
Sustainability 2024, 16(7), 2749; https://doi.org/10.3390/su16072749 - 26 Mar 2024
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Because of the current energy crisis, researchers are looking into new potential substrates for production of biofuels and for possible ways to enhance their parameters. In line with such efforts, the current study focuses on the feasibility of processing waste from the production [...] Read more.
Because of the current energy crisis, researchers are looking into new potential substrates for production of biofuels and for possible ways to enhance their parameters. In line with such efforts, the current study focuses on the feasibility of processing waste from the production of cultivated tobacco. The aim of this study was to assess the potential of tobacco waste as a raw material for the production of solid biofuels, such as biochar produced through pyrolysis, and to determine its basic physicochemical properties, compared to other materials used for the production of green fuels. The analyses showed calorific values of 16.16 MJ kg−1 for the raw biomass and those in the range of 24.16–27.32 MJ kg−1 for the products of pyrolysis conducted at temperatures of 400–500 °C and with a heating time in the range of 5 to 15 min. To address the safety-related issues, the study also measured the explosion index (Kst max), which, in the raw biomass, amounted to 72.62 bar s−1 and in the biochar was in the range between 82.42 and 88.11 bar s−1. The registered maximum explosion pressure was 7.37 bar in the case of raw biomass, whereas in the biochars, the value ranged from 8.09 to 8.94 bar. The findings show that tobacco waste has parameters comparable to those identified in the case of other solid biofuels, whereas the process of pyrolysis enhances the energy-related parameters without increasing the explosion class of the product. Full article
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