Progress in microwave pyrolysis conversion of agricultural waste to value-added biofuels: a batch to continuous approach

S Ge, PNY Yek, YW Cheng, C **a, WAW Mahari… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Microwave pyrolysis (MP) has emerged as a promising technique to valorize agricultural
wastes (AW) into biofuels, comprising biochar, bio-oil, and syngas. To fill the research gap …

A comprehensive review of engineered biochar: production, characteristics, and environmental applications

HKS Panahi, M Dehhaghi, YS Ok, AS Nizami… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
A sustainable management of environment and agriculture is crucial to protect soil, water,
and air during intensified agriculture practices as well as huge industrial and transportation …

Valorization of biomass waste to engineered activated biochar by microwave pyrolysis: Progress, challenges, and future directions

SY Foong, RK Liew, Y Yang, YW Cheng… - Chemical Engineering …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Biomass waste represents the promising surrogate of fossil fuels for energy recovery and
valorization into value-added products. Among thermochemical conversion techniques of …

Challenges and opportunities in microwave-assisted catalytic pyrolysis of biomass: A review

X Ren, MS Ghazani, H Zhu, W Ao, H Zhang… - Applied Energy, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Microwave-assisted catalytic pyrolysis (MACP) is one of the emerging technologies for
efficiently converting the solid biomass residues to valuable products, including liquid bio-oil …

Production, activation, and applications of biochar in recent times

AK Sakhiya, A Anand, P Kaushal - Biochar, 2020‏ - Springer
Biomass is a green energy source and is available in abundance. Biochar is a carbon-rich
material derived from a wide range of biomass or organic waste through the thermochemical …

Technical challenges in scaling up the microwave technology for biomass processing

IJ Siddique, AA Salema, E Antunes, R Vinu - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Microwave (MW)-assisted heating is one of the emerging technologies for biomass
conversion into energy, fuels, and chemicals. It is claimed to be energy efficient, time-saving …

Recent advances in engineered biochar productions and applications

B Wang, B Gao, J Fang - Critical reviews in environmental science …, 2017‏ - Taylor & Francis
Biochar is mainly used as a soil amendment and for carbon sequestration; while other
applications such as environmental remediation may be equally important. Recently …

Recent developments on algal biochar production and characterization

KL Yu, BF Lau, PL Show, HC Ong, TC Ling… - Bioresource …, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Algal biomass is known as a promising sustainable feedstock for the production of biofuels
and other valuable products. However, since last decade, massive amount of interests have …

Biochar from microwave pyrolysis of biomass: A review

J Li, J Dai, G Liu, H Zhang, Z Gao, J Fu, Y He… - Biomass and …, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Microwave based technology is an alternative heating method and has already been
successfully used in biomass pyrolysis for biochar and biofuel production thanks to its fast …

Microwave-assisted pyrolysis of sewage sludge: A review

A Zaker, Z Chen, X Wang, Q Zhang - Fuel processing technology, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Microwave-assisted pyrolysis is considered a promising technique for the thermochemical
conversion of solid waste such as sewage sludge to useful energy products, including bio …