Biomass Chars: Elaboration, Characterization and Applications III
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "A4: Bio-Energy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2020) | Viewed by 20548
Special Issue Editors
Interests: biomass valorization: pyrolysis, gasification, and combustion of different biomasses, including agriculture residues and agro-industrial by-products; thermal degradation mechanisms and kinetics; gas emission analysis; exhaust gas treatment: exhaust gas treatment in fixed and mobile sources; NOx and soot abatement; volatile organic compound elimination
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Interests: Biomass conversion and valorization; carbon materials; biological and physicochemical wastewater treatments; adsorption of pollutants; chemical engineering and processing; batch and continuous reactors; design synthesis and characterization of carbon adsorbents (chars, activated carbons, composite materials)
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
“Biomass Chars: Elaboration, Characterization and Applications III” is a continuation of the previous and successful Special Issue “Biomass Chars: Elaboration, Characterization and Applications”.
Biomass can be converted to energy, biofuels, and bioproducts via thermochemical conversion processes, such as combustion, pyrolysis, and gasification. Combustion technology is the most widely applied on an industrial scale. However, biomass gasification and pyrolysis processes are still in research and development stage. The major products from these processes are syngas, bio-oil and char (called also biochar for agronomic application). Among these products, biomass chars have received an increasing attention for different applications, such as gasification, co-combustion, catalysts or adsorbents precursor, soil amendment, carbon fuel cells, and supercapacitors.
This Special Issue provides an overview for biomass chars production methods (pyrolysis, hydrothermal carbonization, etc.), the characterization techniques (Scanning Electronic Microscopy, X-Ray Fluorescence, Nitrogen adsorption, Raman Spectroscopy, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, Temperature Programmed Desorption and Mass Spectrometry, etc.), their properties and their suitable recovery processes.
Prof. Mejdi Jeguirim
Prof. Lionel Limousy
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- biomass
- thermochemical conversion
- chars
- morphological, textural and structural properties
- surface chemistry
- gasification
- soil amendment
- reactivity