Value-Added and Sustainable Materials from Fossil Fuels and Related Byproducts
A special issue of Fuels (ISSN 2673-3994).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 October 2023) | Viewed by 11553
Special Issue Editor
Interests: chemical kinetics; mass and heat transfer in combustion of solid fuels; computational fluid dynamic modeling of combustion systems for emission reduction; extraction of geothermal energy integrated with CO2 sequestration; advanced power generation methods; oxy-fuel combustion; chemical looping combustion; slagging and fouling in gasification; coal and biomass co-gasification and extraction of critical and rare earth elements from secondary sources
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The world is moving toward sustainable energy options at a faster pace. By 2040, it is expected that solar and wind will be dominant energy sources for electricity. Several automobile manufacturers have announced that they will be manufacturing all electric vehicles. These developments come with a steep increase in demand for some rare earth and critical elements. Coal and coal products such as coal overburden, underclays, sandstone, coal refuse from preparation plans, and coal after combustion are viewed as resources for these critical minerals. Coal is viewed as a source of high-value nonfuel carbon source to manufacture advanced products such as carbon fiber, carbon composites, synthetic pitch, and graphite for energy and environmental applications.
Papers including basic to applied scientific research in producing nonfuel value-added materials from fossil fuels are invited to this Special Issue.
Prof. Dr. Sarma Pisupati
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Rare earth elements
- Critical minerals
- Coal byproducts
- Coal-derived carbon materials
- Synthetic graphite
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