Insights into biochar and hydrochar production and applications: a review

Z Zhang, Z Zhu, B Shen, L Liu - Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
Recently, there is an upsurge interest of using biomass derived char products in various
fields, in order to address some of the most urgent energy and environmental problems we …

Upcycling Plastic Wastes into Value‐Added Products by Heterogeneous Catalysis

T Tan, W Wang, K Zhang, Z Zhan, W Deng… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Plastics are playing essential roles in the modern society. The majority of them enter
environment through landfilling or discarding after turning into wastes, causing severe …

Catalytic cracking of biomass pyrolysis tar over char-supported catalysts

F Guo, X Li, Y Liu, K Peng, C Guo, Z Rao - Energy conversion and …, 2018 - Elsevier
The work aims to investigate an effective method of catalytic reforming of tar during biomass
high-temperature pyrolysis using rice husk char (RHC) and metal impregnated (Fe, Cu and …

Role and mechanism of calcium-based catalysts for methane dry reforming: A review

Z Zhang, Y Zhang, L Liu - Fuel, 2024 - Elsevier
Dry reforming of methane (DRM) is a promising and well-studied process that could
simultaneously convert the two most abundant greenhouse gases (CH 4 and CO 2) to …

Biochar and environmental sustainability: emerging trends and techno-economic perspectives

N Khan, P Chowdhary, E Gnansounou… - Bioresource …, 2021 - Elsevier
Environmental pollutants including emerging contaminants are a growing concern
worldwide. Organic wastes, such as food waste, compost, animal manure, crop residues …

Reforming of tar from biomass gasification in a hybrid catalysis-plasma system: A review

L Liu, Z Zhang, S Das, S Kawi - Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 2019 - Elsevier
The generation of tar in biomass gasification is highly undesirable since the condensation
and agglomeration of tar causes clogging and contamination of downstream equipment …

A review on the application of non-thermal plasma (NTP) in the conversion of biomass: Catalyst preparation, thermal utilization and catalyst regeneration

S Shao, Z Ye, J Sun, C Liu, J Yan, T Liu, X Li, H Zhang… - Fuel, 2022 - Elsevier
A brief review of non-thermal plasma (NTP) technology as a new technology for the thermal
conversion of biomass is presented in this paper. Three aspects of the entire process are …

Nonoxidative coupling of methane over ceria-supported single-atom Pt catalysts in DBD plasma

L Liu, S Das, Z Zhang, S Kawi - ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2022 - ACS Publications
Plasma-catalytic direct nonoxidative coupling of methane (NCM) into C2 hydrocarbons was
investigated over ceria-supported atomically dispersed Pt (Pt/CeO2-SAC) and nanoparticle …

[HTML][HTML] Pyrolysis-plasma/catalytic reforming of post-consumer waste plastics for hydrogen production

I Aminu, MA Nahil, PT Williams - Catalysis Today, 2023 - Elsevier
Different types of single waste plastics and a range of real-world mixed waste plastics from
several different industrial and commercial sources have been processed in a pyrolysis …

Critical assessment of plasma tar reforming during biomass gasification: A review on advancement in plasma technology

N Gao, MH Milandile, C Quan, L Rundong - Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2022 - Elsevier
The contamination of producer gas with tar due to inefficient removal methods remains a
major challenge in the bioenergy industry and a critical barrier, hindering commercial …