Sustainable Waste-to-Energy Systems

Dear Colleagues,

Billions of tons of waste are generated annually worldwide, causing severe damage to ecosystems and humans. Currently, a significant part of this waste ends up in landfills without any treatment. Reuse, recycling, and material recovery are the top priorities in waste management. However, energy recovery is also important and definitely more desirable a choice than landfilling. There is a huge untapped potential of recovering energy and other value-added products from waste through various technologies. Energy recovery from waste, as being a crucial part of integrated sustainable waste management systems, will not only help shift the linear economies to circular economies and secure energy supply, but also significantly mitigate the waste-related severe environmental and human health issues.

This Special Issue is designed to attract the latest developments in sustainable waste-to-energy technologies, circular economies, and the newly emerging concept of waste-based biorefineries. The editorial team welcomes original research articles, review articles, and case studies from researchers, academics, industrialists and other stakeholders, dealing with but not limited to the following research areas:

• Advances in waste-to-energy technologies, including novel waste to energy conversion designs and methods
• Potential of different forms of energy recovery from different waste types
• Pre-treatments of waste and waste-to-energy system optimizations
• Integrated sustainable waste management systems
• Waste based biorefineries, such as organic waste biorefinery, agricultural and forestry waste biorefinery or integrated waste-based biorefineries, etc.
• Life cycle assessment of waste-to-energy technologies and biorefineries
• Circular economies and bio-based economies

Dr. Konstantinos Moustakas
Prof. Dr. Abdul-Sattar Nizami
Prof. Dr. Mohammad Rehan
Guest Editors

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