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Char-based Composites

Production, Characterization, Limitations, and Emerging Applications

  • 1st Edition - September 26, 2024
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: W. A. K. G. Wan Azlina, S. M. Sapuan, M M Harussani
  • Language: English

Char-based Composites: Production, Characterization, Limitations and Emerging Applications provides the reader with a wide spectrum of information on char and biochar-based compos… Read more

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Description

Char-based Composites: Production, Characterization, Limitations and Emerging Applications provides the reader with a wide spectrum of information on char and biochar-based composites. Emphasis is placed on their production, characterization, applications, and limitations towards commercialization. The book's chapters concentrate on char/biochar as nanofillers in composite materials which are currently used in various advanced technologies including nanotechnology, environmental sectors (gas cleaning and wastewater treatments), energy storage, and solid fuel and catalysts.

This book will be a valuable reference resource for academic and industrial researchers, as well as biotechnologists working in the development of advanced char and biochar-based composite materials.

Key features

  • Covers materials selection, design solutions, manufacturing techniques, structural analysis, and performance of char and biochar-based composites
  • Discusses various applications, including wastewater treatment, gas cleaning, energy storage, solid fuel, catalysts, and other advanced technologies
  • Includes new materials reinforced by char in structural and automotive applications
  • Covers toxicity and the circular economy regarding biochar production and utilization

Readership

Academic and industrial researchers, materials scientists and engineers, chemists, and biotechnologists, working in the development of biochar, biocomposites, and nanocomposites, Postgraduate students studying bioenergy and composite materials, environmentalists and environmental engineering

Table of contents

1 Introduction to the char, biochar, and its composites in various potential applications—a review

2 Char and biochar production: technology, applications, and major challenges

3 Char as nanofillers: effects on mechanical performance of char-reinforced polymer composites

4 Physical and chemical characterization of char, biochar, and its composite

5 Characterization and manufacturing technology of cellulose nano-biochar as natural feedstocks for advanced carbon materials in soil remediation

6 Frontier technology of hydrogel biochar composites for wastewater treatments

7 Application of char and biochar composites for gas cleaning technology: hydrogel biochar composites

8 Biochar for energy storage applications

9 Biochar as a potential solid fuel

10 Application of biochar and biochar composites as catalyst

11 Toxicity screening of hazardous materials-infused char composites

12 Biochar and the circular economy

13 Characteristics and degradation of carbon low-density polyethylene (LDPE) composites in the environment

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: September 26, 2024
  • Language: English

About the editors

WA

W. A. K. G. Wan Azlina

W.A.K.G. Wan Azlina is a researcher and professor of bioenergy and environmental engineering in the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM). She is also Head of the Sustainable Process Engineering Research Centre (SPERC) at UPM. Her research background focuses mainly on the sustainable chemical valorisation of biomass and wastes to bioenergy, biofuels, and biomaterials. She has published vastly in reputable journals and conference proceedings (>300), as well as book chapters and has been the recipient of many prestigious awards including Malaysia’s L’oreal Fellowship for Women in Science (FWIS) and Top Research Scientist Malaysia (TRSM 2021). She has also been actively involved in numerous professional bodies or organizations namely the Chemical Engineering Technical Division (CETD), Institute of Engineers Malaysia (2014-2016) and the Young Scientist Network (YSN) (2018-2022).
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia

SS

S. M. Sapuan

S.M. Sapuan is a Professor (Grade “A”) of composite materials in the Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, at the Universiti Putra Malaysia. He is also the former Head of the Advanced Engineering Materials and Composites Research Centre (AEMC) at UPM. He attained his BEng in mechanical engineering from the University of Newcastle, in Australia and then went on to receive his MSc in engineering design and PhD in materials engineering, from De Montfort University in the UK. He is a Professional Engineer and a Fellow of many professional societies, including the Society of Automotive Engineers; the Academy of Science Malaysia; the International Society for Development and Sustainability; the World Academy of Sciences; the Plastic and Rubber Institute Malaysia (PRIM); the Malaysian Scientific Association and the Institute of Materials Malaysia. He is an Honorary Member and past Vice President of the Asian Polymer Association and Founding Chairman and Honorary Member of The Society of Sugar Palm Development and Industry, Malaysia. During the course of his career, he has produced over 2500 publications, including 989 journal papers, 68 books and 246 book chapters.

Affiliations and expertise
Visiting professor at Universitas Abulyatama, Indonesia.

MH

M M Harussani

M.M. Harussani is currently, pursuing his doctoral course at the Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) in Materials Science sponsored by the Japanese Government under the Monbukagakusho: MEXT 2022 Scholarship. He is a postgraduate student in materials engineering, who is affiliated with the Universiti Putra Malaysia. In 2015, he was awarded the MyBrainSC Ministry of Higher Education (MoHE) Scholarship to pursue his bachelor’s degree (BSc) in Physics from the Faculty of Science, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM). He graduated in 2019, with a CGPA of 3.80. He then went on to successfully complete his research-mode master's degree in Materials Engineering at (UPM) with a CGPA of 4.00. His research interests include carbon, hydrogen energy, energy conversion and materials science. During his short academic career he has already been the recipient of numerous awards including the Best of the Best Award for excellence in both writing and presentation for his paper on waste-to-wealth strategy and utilization of carbon material–char as nanofillers in an International Conference of Sugar Palm and Allied Fibre Polymer Composites 2021 (SAPC2021); and the Best Presenter Award in the 7th Postgraduate Seminar on Natural Fibre Reinforced Polymer Composites, Institute of Tropical Forestry and Forest Products (INTROP, 2020). To date, he has authored or co-authored almost 40 publications, 5 book chapters, 2 conference papers, 12 conference proceedings/seminar papers/presentations), and has submitted 3 books on char and composites, 1 copyright and 1 product patent.
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia

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