Advances in Biomass Co-combustion with Alternative Fuels
A special issue of Processes (ISSN 2227-9717). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2023) | Viewed by 11810
Special Issue Editors
Interests: gasification; pyrolysis; biomass; combustion; energy saving; heat transfer
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Climate change is prompting production systems to shift from a fossil-based economy to a carbon neutral one. In this context, biomass can play an important role if wisely exploited. Biomass is widely available and uniformly distributed worldwide and can provide a sustainable source of energy with the advantage of being less intermittent and more programmable compared to solar and wind power. There are different ways to use biomass as fuel such as direct combustion, co-combustion with alternative fuels (e.g., fossil fuels), gasification, etc. All these processes can be very attractive from an environmental point of view when the fuel used is agricultural or forest residues. However, the exploitation of biomass as energy source its often more complicated compared to that of fossil fuels or other renewable sources; therefore, research in this field is fundamental to improve the technologies in order to increase efficiency and reduce pollution and costs.
This Special Issue on “Advances in Biomass Co-Combustion with Alternative Fuels” aims to address the combined use of biomasses with different fuels in order to identify the issues and possible solutions of the technology as well as to explore possible new scenarios.
The main research topics are:
- Biomass and coal co-combustion;
- Biomass and gas co-combustion;
- Co-combustion with producer gas from biomass gasification.
Dr. Marco Puglia
Dr. Nicolò Morselli
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- co-combustion
- biomass
- co-firing
- bioenergy
- fuel
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