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Char-based Composites
Production, Characterization, Limitations, and Emerging Applications
- 1st Edition - October 1, 2024
- Editors: W. A. K. G. Wan Azlina, S. M. Sapuan, M M Harussani
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 5 4 0 3 - 4
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 3 8 5 2 - 9
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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Request a sales quoteThis 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.
- 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
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
2 Char and biochar production: optimal technology, applications, and current limitations in the industrial sector
3 Char as nanofillers: effects on mechanical performance of charreinforced polymer composites
4 Physical and chemical characterization of char, biochar, and its composite
5 Characterization and manufacturing technology of cellulose nano-bio charcoal as natural feedstocks for advanced carbon materials in soil remediation
6 Frontier technology of hydrogelbiochar 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 Char as a potential solid fuel
10 Application of biochar and biochar composites as catalyst
11 Toxicity screening of char and biochar composites
12 Char composite-based circular economy
13 Characteristics and degradation of carbon-low-density polyethylene (LDPE) composites in the environment
- No. of pages: 350
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: October 1, 2024
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443154034
- eBook ISBN: 9780443238529
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W. A. K. G. Wan Azlina
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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 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 2000 publications, including 950 journal papers, 60 books and 230 book chapters.
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