Gasification of Secondary Carbon Resources

Dear Colleagues,

We would like to invite you to submit your works to a Special Issue of Sustainability on the subject of the gasification of secondary carbon resources.

Waste and biomass residues are worthy secondary carbon resources which currently in the linear economy are incinerated to produce heat and electricity or landfilled. Both of these disposal ways not merely significantly affect the environment by polluting the air through releasing considerable amounts of greenhouse gases such as CO₂, and NO_x, and by contaminating the underground waters through leakage of battery acid, paint, household cleaners and so on, but also lead to losing carbon resources. Shifting to a circular economy provides the advantage of recycling of these secondary carbon feedstocks and reduction of fossil fuels utilization. Due to the low amount of pollutant emissions, and possibility of low-grade feedstock utilization, such as opportunity fuel blends with RDF/municipal waste/domestic waste, tires, and wood waste, gasification could be the heart of sector coupling to close the carbon cycle by converting the waste into valuable chemicals.

By focusing on the gasification of secondary carbon resources, this Special Issue intends to collect the scientific literatures which provide new concepts for the integration of waste and biomass gasification in the circular economy and offer new solutions for the problems related to the utilization of waste and biomass in gasifiers. The priority goes to the articles with multidisciplinary subjects which connect gasification to the environment and the economy. The topics of interest of this Special Issue include but are not limited to:

• Role of gasification in closing the carbon cycle
• Application of gasification in chemical recycling of waste and biomass
• H₂ production from waste and biomass via gasification
• Technical issues related to gasification of waste and biomass
• Thermodynamic study, CFD and process simulation of alternative fuels gasification

Dr. Massoud Massoudi Farid
Dr. Falah Alobaid
Dr. Myung Won Seo
Dr. Jihong Moon
Guest Editors

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