Opportunities and challenges in sustainable treatment and resource reuse of sewage sludge: a review

A Raheem, VS Sikarwar, J He, W Dastyar… - Chemical Engineering …, 2018 - Elsevier
Sludge or waste activated sludge (WAS) generated from wastewater treatment plants may
be considered a nuisance. It is a key source for secondary environmental contamination on …

An overview of advances in biomass gasification

VS Sikarwar, M Zhao, P Clough, J Yao… - Energy & …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Biomass gasification is a widely used thermochemical process for obtaining products with
more value and potential applications than the raw material itself. Cutting-edge, innovative …

Ash contents and ash-forming elements of biomass and their significance for solid biofuel combustion

SV Vassilev, CG Vassileva, YC Song, WY Li, J Feng - Fuel, 2017 - Elsevier
Inorganic matter and some ash-forming elements of biomass may cause numerous
technological and environmental problems during biomass processing. Therefore, an …

A review on biomass gasification syngas cleanup

N Abdoulmoumine, S Adhikari, A Kulkarni… - Applied Energy, 2015 - Elsevier
Energy, fuel and chemical production from biomass is increasingly attracting interest in the
world. Gasification of biomass can produce raw syngas which contains CO, CO 2, H 2 and …

Recent advances in biomass-derived graphene and carbon nanotubes

Y Zhou, J He, R Chen, X Li - Materials Today Sustainability, 2022 - Elsevier
As the most value-added carbon nanomaterials, graphene and carbon nanotubes (CNTs)
have been widely studied and employed in a diverse assortment of applications due to their …

Gas cleaning systems for integrating biomass gasification with Fischer-Tropsch synthesis-A review of impurity removal processes and their sequences

DC de Oliveira, EES Lora, OJ Venturini… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
Well-established examples of biofuel utilization, such as ethanol and biodiesel, prove that it
is possible to establish sustainable ways to progressively reduce the market dependence on …

Thermochemical conversion of heavy metal contaminated biomass: Fate of the metals and their impact on products

Y Chai, M Bai, A Chen, L Peng, J Shao, C Shang… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
With the rapid depletion of fossil energy and increasingly severe environmental pollution,
the development of biomass resources for biorefineries has become a new research focus …

Biofuel production using thermochemical conversion of heavy metal-contaminated biomass (HMCB) harvested from phytoextraction process

W Dastyar, A Raheem, J He, M Zhao - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2019 - Elsevier
Over the past few decades, bioenergy production from heavy metal-contaminated
biomasses (HMCBs) has been drawing increasing attention from scientists in diverse …

A characteristic-based decision tree approach for sustainable energy applications of biomass residues from two major classes

A Anand, S Gautam, LC Ram - Fuel, 2023 - Elsevier
The characteristic potential of biomass residues from two major classes for sustainable
energy applications has been critically evaluated. These include sheesham wood dust …

Torrefied biomasses in a drop tube furnace to evaluate their utility in blast furnaces

WH Chen, SW Du, CH Tsai, ZY Wang - Bioresource Technology, 2012 - Elsevier
Torrefaction and burning characteristics of bamboo, oil palm, rice husk, bagasse, and
Madagascar almond were studied and compared with a high-volatile bituminous coal using …