Design of biorefineries towards carbon neutrality: A critical review

AB Culaba, AP Mayol, JLG San Juan, AT Ubando… - Bioresource …, 2023 - Elsevier
The increase in worldwide demand for energy is driven by the rapid increase in population
and exponential economic development. This resulted in the fast depletion of fossil fuel …

Exploring gasification process and technology for biomass-waste utilization: a comprehensive review on the path to sustainable energy

Y Ayub, J Ren, T Shi - Process Safety and Environmental Protection, 2024 - Elsevier
Biomass waste can be valorized into energy through gasification process. This study
summarized the factors affecting gasification process including process technologies …

Green hydrogen production from decarbonized biomass gasification: An integrated techno-economic and environmental analysis

CC Cormos - Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Biomass gasification represents an effective and promising conversion technology to
different energy carriers/chemicals. Biomass gasification with CO 2 capture will give an …

Reaction engineering during biomass gasification and conversion to energy

S Verma, AM Dregulo, V Kumar, PC Bhargava, N Khan… - Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Bioenergy, as a perspective of the global energy paradigm, makes a significant contribution
to the increase in global energy demand and the development of technologies for converting …

Process design and muti-objective optimization of solid waste/biomass co-gasification considering tar formation

T Aentung, W Wu, Y Patcharavorachot - Journal of the Taiwan Institute of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Background The co-gasification of solid waste and biomass to produce syngas is an
environmentally friendly technology. Unfortunately, the tar formation in the solid …

Monolithic biochar-supported cobalt-based catalysts with high-activity and superior-stability for biomass tar reforming

B Tian, S Mao, F Guo, J Bai, R Shu, L Qian, Q Liu - Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
In this paper, monolithic biochar-supported cobalt-based catalysts with unique long and
through mesopores were synthesized based on the biological channels of biomass …

Simulation of biomass pyrolysis in a rotary drum by coupling CFD-DEM with a one-dimensional thermally thick model

J Wang, X Ku, S Yang - Energy & Fuels, 2022 - ACS Publications
A reactive computational fluid dynamic-discrete element model (CFD-DEM) is coupled with
a one-dimensional thermally thick model to simulate biomass pyrolysis in a three …

Comprehensive DEM-CFD model and thermal uniformity optimization for biomass catalytic pyrolysis reactor

S Wang, K Wu, S Chu, J Yu, Y Wang, B Luo… - Energy Conversion and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Dense particulate beds are commonly used in energy conversion and chemical synthesis
processes, while their efficiency is limited by the complex particle flow mechanism and …

Numerical simulation and performance evaluation of throat sizing in an updraft fixed bed reactor for biomass gasification

KW Kuttin, L Ding - Biomass and Bioenergy, 2024 - Elsevier
This study presents a comprehensive numerical modeling approach to analyze and
evaluate the performance of a throat biomass updraft fixed bed gasification reactor through …

Thermochemical characterization and kinetics of biomass, municipal plastic waste, and coal blends and their potential for energy generation via gasification

A Bhattarai, A Kemp, H Jahromi, S Kafle, S Adhikari - ACS omega, 2023 - ACS Publications
Feedstocks such as coal, biomass, plastics, and their blends have the potential to serve as
fuels for the thermochemical conversion process owing to their relatively high calorific …