Gasification of Secondary Carbon Resources
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sustainability and Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 November 2022) | Viewed by 996
Special Issue Editors
Interests: chemical recycling of biomass and wastes via gasification; computational fluid dynamics; carbon, NOx, and SOx capturing processes; fixed beds and fluidized beds processes; multiphase flows; fine particulate formation and capturing; reaction kinetics of solid and liquid fuels
Interests: thermal power generation (e.g., combined-cycle power plant, concentrated solar power plant, municipal waste incinerator, fluidized bed system); energy storage system and flexibility of thermal power plants; gasification and combustion of solid fuels (e.g., biomass, waste, SRF and RDF); CO2 capture and reuse (chemical-looping combustion, calcium carbonate-looping); production of methane and methanol; dynamic process simulation of energy systems and process engineering applications; CFD numerical methods of energy systems and process engineering applications (including multi-phase flow using two-fluid and euler-lagrange models)
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Interests: fluidization engineering; coal/biomass/waste gasification process; CFD simulation, CO2 methanation for Power-to-Gas
Interests: oxy-CFBC; gasification; pyrolysis; molten metal; fluidized beds processes; carbon, NOx, and SOx in situ capturing processes; thermal power generation; flexibility
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Special Issue Information
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 NOx, 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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Keywords
- gasification
- alternative fuels
- waste
- biomass
- hazardous waste
- sector coupling
- closing the carbon cycle
- circular economy
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