Evidence map›Paper›PMID 42197216›Full record

ReviewMolecules (Basel, Switzerland)2026

The Dark Side of Green Energy: Glycol Waste and the Microbes That Can Transform It.

Julia Alicja Dybka, Klaudiusz Tomczyk, Mateusz Szczepańczyk, Katarzyna Ewa Kosiorowska

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Review in Molecules (Basel, Switzerland), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Julia Alicja DybkaBIOSUS Student's Scientific Club, Laboratory for Biosustainability, Institute of Biology, Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Kożuchowska 5b, 51-631 Wroclaw, Poland.ORCID 0009-0002-0248-3897
Klaudiusz TomczykBIOSUS Student's Scientific Club, Laboratory for Biosustainability, Institute of Biology, Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Kożuchowska 5b, 51-631 Wroclaw, Poland.ORCID 0009-0005-8255-4510
Mateusz SzczepańczykLaboratory for Biosustainability, Institute of Biology, Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Kożuchowska 5b, 51-631 Wrocław, Poland.ORCID 0000-0003-2903-7336
Katarzyna Ewa KosiorowskaDepartment of Applied Bioeconomy, Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences, 37a, Chełmońskiego Street, 51-630 Wrocław, Poland.ORCID 0000-0002-2343-769X

Funding

National Science Centre 2025/09/X/NZ9/00654
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The progressive deployment of renewable energy systems has engendered a considerable increase in the generation of glycol-based coolant waste, specifically ethylene glycol (EG) and propylene glycol (PG), thereby raising significant environmental apprehensions. This review analyses the critical environmental challenge and examines the feasibility of microbial degradation as a viable and sustainable alternative to glycol waste treatment, while highlighting significant gaps in current hazardous glycol waste management practices. Present waste management practices are largely founded on incineration or membrane filtration approaches, both of which exhibit significant energy demands and inefficiencies in large-scale waste handling. Reported performance ranges from >99% EG recovery at 10-16 kWh/m

Indexed as

BacteriaEthylene GlycolPropylene GlycolWaste ManagementBiodegradation, EnvironmentalEthylene GlycolPropylene Glycolbiodegradationcoolant recyclingethylene glycolmicrobial biotechnologypropylene glycolwaste management

Identifiers

PMID42197216
PMCPMC13210347

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