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Cosmin Spîrchez, Aurel Lunguleasa, Carmen-Mihaela Popescu, Anamaria Avram and Constantin Stefan Ionescu
In a context where there is an increasing need for thermal treatments of wooden products, the current research contributes a description of the torrefaction treatment of two of the composite wood materials available on the international market. The prese...
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Suchandra Hazra, Prithvi Morampudi, John C. Prindle, Dhan Lord B. Fortela, Rafael Hernandez, Mark E. Zappi and Prashanth Buchireddy
Biomass is an excellent sustainable carbon neutral energy source, however its use as a coal/petroleum coke substitute in thermal applications poses several challenges. Several inherent properties of biomass including higher heating value (HHV), bulk dens...
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Rafael Font, Estefanía Villar, María Angeles Garrido, Ana Isabel Moreno, María Francisca Gómez-Rico and Nuria Ortuño
Walnut shells can be used as fuels in power plants directly or as biochars obtained by pyrolysis or torrefaction. They are an example of clean waste biomass which shows a low ash content and a high Net Calorific Value, making them excellent for energy re...
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Muhammad Azam Saeed, Lukasz Niedzwiecki, Muhammad Yousaf Arshad, Jan Skrinsky, Gordon E. Andrews and Herodotos N. Phylaktou
Design of explosion safety measures for torrefaction installations and design of pulverized-fired burners for biocoal.
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Hamed M. El Mashad, Abdolhossein Edalati, Ruihong Zhang and Bryan M. Jenkins
Biomass from specialty crops, including almonds, walnuts, and numerous others, serves as an important resource for energy and materials as agricultural systems evolve towards greater sustainability and circularity in management and operations. Biochar wa...
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Daniel Travieso Pedroso, Einara Blanco Machin, Gustavo Cabrera-Barjas, Mauricio Flores, Héctor Grandón Urra, Felipe Solferini de Carvalho, Maria Isabel Silva dos Santos, Adrian Blanco Machín, Eliana Vieira Canettieri, Néstor Proenza Pérez, Pedro Teixeira Lacava, Leila Ribeiro dos Santos and João Andrade de Carvalho Júnior
Sugarcane bagasse has a great potential to be used as biofuel; however, its use as feedstock in fluidized bed reactors is hampered due to its fibrous nature, low apparent density, high moisture content, and difficulties with its fluidization. The present...
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Stefania Lucantonio, Andrea Di Giuliano and Katia Gallucci
The European research project CLARA (chemical looping gasification for sustainable production of biofuels, G.A. 817841) investigated chemical looping gasification of wheat straw pellets. This work focuses on pretreatments for this residual biomass, i.e.,...
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Magdalena Szwaja, Mariusz Chwist, Stanislaw Szwaja and Romualdas Juknelevicius
Thermal processing (torrefaction, pyrolysis, and gasification), as a technology can provide environmentally friendly use of plastic waste. However, it faces a problem with respect to its by-products. Pyrolysis oil obtained using this technology is seen a...
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Leonel J. R. Nunes, Jorge M. C. Ribeiro, Letícia C. R. Sá, Liliana M. E. F. Loureiro, Radu Godina and João C. O. Matias
Currently, the search for alternative sources of energy is not only due to the scarcity of non-renewable sources, since these still have an availability capable of meeting actual consumption needs, but also due to the negative environmental impacts that ...
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Leonel J. R. Nunes, Liliana M. E. F. Loureiro, Letícia C. R. Sá and Hugo F. C. Silva
Agroforestry waste stores a considerable amount of energy that can be used. Portugal has great potential to produce bioenergy. The waste generated during agricultural production and forestry operation processes can be used for energy generation, and it c...
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