About this Research Topic
The proposed research topic will collect and publish the latest research and modelling results, case studies, critical reviews, with the focus on the clean fuel conversion routes of biomass and wasted-based materials. The primary goal of this research topic is to provide better understanding of the characteristics of biomass and other emerging wastes (municipal solid waste, industrial waste, sewage sludge, solid waste from other biorefining processes, etc.) as the fuel precursors. Moreover, this research topic will promote the understanding of the conversion chemistry involved in the upgrading of such materials into clean fuel, by presenting the detailed distributions and characterization results of the conversion products. Furthermore, it will also contribute to the comprehensive undertaking of such fuels by presenting their utilization characteristics (i.e., gas and particle resale behaviors during combustion, thermal degradation kinetics, combustion process modeling results, etc.)
The research presented in this research topic will have a focus on various aspects of clean fuel production from various biomass resources (agroforestry, woody, non-woody) and other organic solid wastes (municipal solid waste, industrial waste, sewage sludge, solid waste from other biorefining processes, etc.) at both laboratory and industrial scales. Proposed themes include but are not restricted to:
• Pre-treatments of such materials for clean fuel production
• Conversion technologies and chemistry of clean fuel production from the above materials (pyrolysis, gasification, hydrothermal processing, microwave-assisted conversion, etc.)
• Applications and environmental impacts of fuels produced from the above materials
• Modeling of the clean fuel production and utilization of fuels
• Life cycle assessments and techno-economic analysis works related to the above topics
• Critical reviews with focus on alternative clean fuels production
Keywords: Biomass; solid waste; clean fuel; reaction mechanism; thermochemical conversion
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