Gas-solid fluidized beds have drawn the attention of engineers and researchers as an
effective technology for a large variety of applications, and numerical simulations can play …

Biomass fast pyrolysis is potentially one of the cheapest routes toward renewable liquid
fuels. Its commercialization, however, poses a multi-scale challenge, which starts with the …

Pyrolysis converts biomass into liquid, gaseous and solid fuels. This work reviews the
existing models for biomass pyrolysis, including kinetic, network and mechanistic models …

In this work about pyrolysis of lignocellulosic biomass, the individual reaction mechanisms of
cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin are initially described. The recent advances in the …

Biomass as a form of energy source may be utilized in two different ways: directly by burning
the biomass and indirectly by converting it into solid, liquid or gaseous fuels. Pyrolysis is an …

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is an effective tool to investigate biomass fast pyrolysis
in fluidized bed reactor for bio-oil production, while it requires huge computational time …

Dense particulate reaction system (DPRS) is quite common in many engineering fields such
as energy conversion, petro-chemical processing, mineral processing, chemical …

Nowadays, gasification is seen as a worldwide settled technique for sustainably generating
energy from residues. Its final product is a synthetic gas which may be used for several …

The thermal decomposition of woody biomass in the absence of oxygen, or pyrolysis, is a
series of complex reactions involving hundreds of compounds. The species of residue, form …

Hydrothermal gasification of biomass is an alternative method of producing hydrogen-rich
syngas. Modeling and optimization of hydrothermal processes are important to evaluate the …