Cutting-Edge Developments in Waste-to-Energy Technologies
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "B: Energy and Environment".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 March 2025 | Viewed by 864
Special Issue Editors
Interests: waste to energy; pollutant analysis and organic and inorganic waste; waste resource utilization
Interests: renewable and sustainable energy resource; waste management; waste to value-added chemicals; biomass and biorefineries; thermochemical conversion of waste; extraction; catalyst
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With increasing global waste generation and the need for sustainable energy, waste-to-energy technologies have become crucial in environmental science and engineering. The diversity of waste materials—such as organic, plastic, and industrial waste—offers unique opportunities for technological innovation. Recent advancements, including anaerobic digestion, incineration, gasification, and pyrolysis, bio-oil production, have enhanced the efficiency of energy recovery while minimizing waste sent to landfills. These technologies contribute to renewable energy in the form of electricity, heat, RDF, fuel gasses, and biofuels.
Our goal is to explore the potential of waste-to-energy technologies in fostering a circular economy, improving resource recovery, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. By encouraging interdisciplinary research, this issue will promote collaboration among scientists, engineers, policymakers, and industry stakeholders.
We look forward to your contributions that will help shape the future of waste-to-energy technologies.
Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to:
- Innovative technology development for waste conversion to energy;
- Process optimization and efficiency improvements;
- Chemical and biological processes;
- Thermochemical conversion of waste-to-energy incineration, gasification, and pyrolysis;
- Hydrothermal carbonization of biomass/organic waste to biofuels;
- Homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis;
- Biomass and biofuels;
- Upgrading of lignin-derived crude oil;
- Feasibility studies;
- Waste recycling and reuse;
- Case studies and real-world applications;
- Policy and economic analyses.
Prof. Dr. Jeong-Hun Park
Dr. Masud Rana
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- waste to energy
- organic
- thermal treatment
- incineration
- gasification
- biofuel production
- pyrolysis
- refuse-derived fuel (RDF)
- renewable
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