Recent Advances in Biomass Energy Conversion
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 August 2023) | Viewed by 4896
Special Issue Editors
Interests: waste valorization; biomass; sewage sludge; pyrolysis; gasification; spouted bed technology; bio-oil
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Interests: waste valorization; biomass; spouted bed technology; pyrolysis; gasification; pyrolysis-reforming
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Biomass is likely to be the only renewable source of fixed carbon, which can be converted to liquid solid and gaseous fuels and chemicals, apart from providing heat and power. Pyrolysis is one of the most energy-efficient processes with the lowest cost for obtaining higher-value-added products from biomass and it is an attractive option for expanding the possibilities of using less desirable biomass (agro-forestry residues or sewage sludge). The yields of each pyrolysis products (solid biochar, liquid bio-oil, and gas) are greatly influenced by the types of feedstock used and various process parameters such as heating rate, temperature, volatile residence time in the reactor, and the use (or not) of catalyst.
Despite the efforts in recent decades, the problems associated with the bio-oil poor quality (high oxygen content, chemical complexity, and instability) and the difficulty to clarify the complex degradation mechanism of biomass (which depends on its components) have limited the implementation of this process on an industrial scale. Thus, in order to step further into the implementation and optimization of large-scale biomass pyrolysis technologies, this Special Issue aims to highlight the recent advances in the development of fundamental models capable of describing transport and pyrolysis reaction phenomena in different technologies, as well as the optimum reaction conditions to produce a bio-oil with higher quality.
Dr. Jon Alvarez
Dr. Maider Amutio
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- biomass
- pyrolysis
- bio-fuel
- kinetics
- modelling
- bio-oil
- biochar
- bio-gas
- renewable energy source
- waste valorization
- pyrolysis reactor
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