Thermochemical Conversion of Food, Agricultural, and Forest Wastes into Biofuel
This special issue belongs to the section "A4: Bio-Energy".
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Biomass, which stores solar energy through photosynthesis, exhibits a high potential to replace or supplement fossil fuels as an energy resource. There are many technologies available to convert biomass to biofuels or value-added products. Among these technologies, thermochemical conversions, such as pyrolysis, gasification and hydrothermal operations, have received increasing attention due to their flexibility over feedstocks and the effectiveness to provide different products. This Special Issue focuses on various aspects of different thermo-chemical conversion processes on agricultural biomass and their further upgrading. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Physico-chemical analysis of biomass for thermo-chemical conversions;
- Analytical and applied pyrolysis;
- Gasification;
- Torrefaction;
- Hydrothermal liquefaction/carbonization;
- Upgrading of bio-oil/bio-crude;
- Syngas cleaning;
- Hydrogen production;
- Biochar tuning and applications;
- Techno-economic analysis;
- Life cycle assessment;
- Machine Learning models for thermochemical conversions.
Dr. Suchithra Thangalazhy-Gopakumar
Prof. Dr. Sushil Adhikari
Dr. Ravikrishnan Vinu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- pyrolysis
- gasification
- torrefaction
- hydrothermal
- biomass
- wastes
- TEA and LCA
- machine learning models
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Published Papers
Energies - ISSN 1996-1073