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Sustainable Waste-to-Energy Systems

A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "B: Energy and Environment".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (23 January 2022) | Viewed by 8765

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Konstantinos Moustakas

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Unit of Environmental Science & Technology, School of Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 9 Heroon Polytechniou Street, Zographou Campus, 15780 Athens, Greece
Interests: environmental chemistry; sustainability; renewable energy; waste-to-energy; integrated solid waste management; circular economy
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Prof. Dr. Abdul-Sattar Nizami

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Government College University, Lahore, Punjab 54000, Pakistan
Interests: waste biorefinery; waste-to-energy; biogas; pyrolysis
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Prof. Dr. Mohammad Rehan

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Center of Excellence in Environmental Studies (CEES), King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia
Interests: waste-to-energy; waste biorefineries; biofuels and bioenergy; solid waste management; nanomaterials; pyrolysis
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Billions of tons of waste are generated annually worldwide, causing severe damage to ecosystems and humans. Currently, a significant part of this waste ends up in landfills without any treatment. Reuse, recycling, and material recovery are the top priorities in waste management. However, energy recovery is also important and definitely more desirable a choice than landfilling. There is a huge untapped potential of recovering energy and other value-added products from waste through various technologies. Energy recovery from waste, as being a crucial part of integrated sustainable waste management systems, will not only help shift the linear economies to circular economies and secure energy supply, but also significantly mitigate the waste-related severe environmental and human health issues.

This Special Issue is designed to attract the latest developments in sustainable waste-to-energy technologies, circular economies, and the newly emerging concept of waste-based biorefineries. The editorial team welcomes original research articles, review articles, and case studies from researchers, academics, industrialists and other stakeholders, dealing with but not limited to the following research areas:

  • Advances in waste-to-energy technologies, including novel waste to energy conversion designs and methods
  • Potential of different forms of energy recovery from different waste types
  • Pre-treatments of waste and waste-to-energy system optimizations
  • Integrated sustainable waste management systems
  • Waste based biorefineries, such as organic waste biorefinery, agricultural and forestry waste biorefinery or integrated waste-based biorefineries, etc.
  • Life cycle assessment of waste-to-energy technologies and biorefineries
  • Circular economies and bio-based economies

Dr. Konstantinos Moustakas
Prof. Dr. Abdul-Sattar Nizami
Prof. Dr. Mohammad Rehan
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Keywords

  • renewable and sustainable energy
  • waste-to-energy technologies
  • energy recovery
  • integrated sustainable waste management
  • waste valorisation
  • waste-based biorefineries
  • integrated waste-based biorefineries
  • biofuels and bioenergy
  • life cycle assessment
  • circular economy
  • bio-based economy
  • incineration
  • gasification
  • pyrolysis
  • plasma technology
  • air emissions and residues

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Quality of Hydrochar from Wine Sludge under Variable Conditions of Hydrothermal Carbonization: The Case of Lesvos Island
by Maria A. Vasileiadou, Georgia Altiparmaki, Konstantinos Moustakas and Stergios Vakalis
Energies 2022, 15(10), 3574; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/en15103574 - 13 May 2022
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Lesvos island has several food and beverage production industries and the valorization of their waste has been an unexplored task. The focus of this study is the valorization of wine sludge which is a very interesting waste stream due to the high phenolic [...] Read more.
Lesvos island has several food and beverage production industries and the valorization of their waste has been an unexplored task. The focus of this study is the valorization of wine sludge which is a very interesting waste stream due to the high phenolic content. This study identified all the operating wineries on the island and sampled local wine sludge. Hydrothermal carbonization (HTC) was utilized for the valorization of wine sludge and the production of hydrochar and liquid HTC liquor. The experiments had a residence time of 24 h and were performed at 200 °C. Except the uniqueness of wine sludge as a utilized material, this study performed HTC under different pressure regimes that were developed by different filling percentages of the reactor, i.e., 24–48%. The different pressure regimes influenced the measured parameters of both the liquid and the solid products of HTC. The Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD) ranged between 230 and 280 g/L with the maximum reduction was observed at a filling percentage of 32%. At the same time, lower filling percentages favored the total phenolic content (max value: 21 g/L) and higher filling percentages favored the Higher Heating Value (HHV) of the hydrochar (max value: 20.36 MJ/Kg) and the produced mass yield of hydrochar (max value: 234.3 mg). For all cases, low pH values were measured on the liquid fraction and this can be attributed to the presence of organic acids. Future work will focus on the characterization of the specific phenolic content of the liquid fraction. Full article
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Determination of Kinetic and Thermodynamic Parameters of Pyrolysis of Coal and Sugarcane Bagasse Blends Pretreated by Ionic Liquid: A Step towards Optimization of Energy Systems
by Saad Saeed, Mahmood Saleem, Abdullah Durrani, Junaid Haider, Muzaffar Riaz, Sana Saeed, Muhammad Abdul Qyyum, Abdul-Sattar Nizami, Mohammad Rehan and Moonyong Lee
Energies 2021, 14(9), 2544; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/en14092544 - 29 Apr 2021
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Pyrolysis behavior of ionic liquid (IL) pretreated coal and sugarcane bagasse (SCB) blends through thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) was studied. Three blends of coal and SCB having 3:1, 1:1, and 1:3 ratios by weight were treated with 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride ([Emim][Cl]) at 150 °C for [...] Read more.
Pyrolysis behavior of ionic liquid (IL) pretreated coal and sugarcane bagasse (SCB) blends through thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) was studied. Three blends of coal and SCB having 3:1, 1:1, and 1:3 ratios by weight were treated with 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride ([Emim][Cl]) at 150 °C for 3 h. Untreated and IL treated blends were then analyzed under pyrolytic conditions in a TGA at a constant ramp rate of 20 °C/min. Kinetic and thermodynamic parameters were evaluated using ten Coats-Redfern (CR) models to assess reaction mechanism. Results showed that the untreated blends followed a definite pattern and were proportional to the concentration of SCB in the blends. IL treated blends exhibited a higher average rate of degradation and total weight loss, indicating that IL had disrupted the cross-linking structure of coal and lignocellulosic structure of SCB. This will enhance the energy generation potential of biomass through thermochemical conversion processes. The lower activation energy (Ea) was calculated for IL treated blends, revealing facile thermal decomposition after IL treatment. Thermodynamic parameters, enthalpy change (ΔH), Gibbs free energy change (ΔG), and entropy change (ΔS), revealed that the pyrolysis reactions were endothermic. This study would help in designing optimized thermochemical conversion systems for energy generation. Full article
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Anti-Thermal Shock Binding of Liquid-State Food Waste to Non-Wood Pellets
by Bruno Rafael de Almeida Moreira, Ronaldo da Silva Viana, Victor Hugo Cruz, Paulo Renato Matos Lopes, Celso Tadao Miasaki, Anderson Chagas Magalhães, Paulo Alexandre Monteiro de Figueiredo, Lucas Aparecido Manzani Lisboa, Sérgio Bispo Ramos, André May and José Claudio Caraschi
Energies 2020, 13(12), 3280; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/en13123280 - 25 Jun 2020
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The development and implementation of strategies to assist safe and effective transport and storage of pellets in containers and indoor facilities without heating systems are challenging. This study primarily aimed to reshape the organic fraction of municipal solid waste into a liquid-state binder [...] Read more.
The development and implementation of strategies to assist safe and effective transport and storage of pellets in containers and indoor facilities without heating systems are challenging. This study primarily aimed to reshape the organic fraction of municipal solid waste into a liquid-state binder in order to develop freezing–defrosting-proof non-wood pellets. The introduction of the standard solution of food waste into the process of pelleting consisted of stirring it together with the residual biomass from distillation of cellulosic bioethanol or alternatively spraying very fine droplets on the layer of the starting material before it entered the pilot-scale automatic machine at 200 MPa and 125 °C. The addition by spraying of carbohydrate-rich supplement boiled for five minutes caused the pellets to show increases in apparent density (1250.8500 kg·m−3), durability (99.7665%), and hydrophobicity (93.9785%), and consistently prevented them from suffering severe mechanical fracture by thermal shock. The fractal dimension of breakpoints, cracks, and delamination on the finished surface for these products was the smallest at 1.7500–1.7505. Sprayed pellets would fall into the strictest grid of products for residential heat-and-power units, even after freezing and defrosting. The conclusion is therefore that spraying can spectacularly ensure the reliability of liquid-state food waste as an anti-thermal shock binder for non-wood pellets. Full article
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