Biomass and Municipal Solid Waste Thermal Conversion Technologies: 3rd Edition
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "A4: Bio-Energy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 May 2025
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Interests: biomass pyrolysis; biomass combustion; biomass gasification; biomass utilization; combustion analysis
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Interests: carbon-based materials for energy or environment; electrochemical energy conversion and storage (Li/Na ion batteries/capacitors, EDLCs, electrocatalysis); coal-based carbon materials; coal pyrolysis; pollutants recyclable/synergistic removal technology
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Interests: solid fuels; clean combustion; pollutants control; coal combustion; oxy-fuel combustion;
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Climate change is among the most pressing challenges of the 21st century. Concerns about the environmental impact of greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil-based fuels have promoted the use of renewable sources of energy. These include renewable biomass, which is readily available. Notably, during the past few decades, municipal solid waste (MSW) has been drastically increasing around the world as a result of the growing urbanization. The development of the utilization of alternative resources has raised a number of other tasks and constraints linked to the nature of renewable resources, including the treatment, processing, thermal conversion, and applied technologies, and, thus, a large number of critical views on this issue. Hence, in this research topic, different kinds of “Thermal Conversion Technologies” for biomass and MSW utilization could be discussed herein.
Dr. Xiaohan Ren
Prof. Dr. Fei Sun
Dr. Juan Chen
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- thermochemical conversion (combustion, pyrolysis, gasification) of biomass
- MSW drying, incineration and pyrolysis
- physical conversion (pelletizing, densification, extraction)
- liquid biofuels such as biodiesel, bioethanol and bio-oils
- life-cycle analysis of the conversion process
- carbon materials based on biomass and MSW
- other thermal conversion technologies on biomass and MSW
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