
Waste Biorefineries
Advanced Design Concepts for Integrated Waste to Energy Processes
- 1st Edition - April 25, 2023
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Authors: Jinyue Yan, Chaudhary Awais Salman
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 1 7 6 1 - 2
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 8 3 4 5 - 7
Waste Biorefineries: Advanced Design Concepts for Integrated Waste to Energy Processes presents a detailed guide to the design of energy-efficient and cost-effective waste-… Read more
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Other sections discuss the issues and challenges of commercializing waste-to-energy technologies, including uncertainty in waste thermochemical process designs, the environmental impact of waste-integrated biorefineries, and the role of integrated waste-to-energy management in smart cities and urban energy systems. This book will be an invaluable reference for students, researchers and those in industry who are interested in the design and implementation of waste-to-energy systems, waste biomass-based combined heat and power plants, biogas plants and forest-based industries.
- Presents advanced and novel waste conversion processes and provides the tools, data and models for waste-to-energy processes and waste biorefineries availability
- Provides comprehensive uncertainty analysis of waste-to-energy designs and modelling processes
- Examines the replicability potential of methods for the design of waste biorefineries for different regions and markets with different sets of products
1. Municipal waste management overview
1.1 Waste management for sustainable development
1.2 Fundamentals of Municipal waste management
1.3 Waste management in European countries
1.4 Waste management in developing countries
1.5 Economic implications of lack of municipal waste management
1.6 Integrated waste management: Principles and applications
2. Waste-to-Energy (WtE)
2.1 Waste-to-Energy technologies
2.1.1 Fundamentals of WTE plants
2.1.2 Combustion
2.1.3 Anaerobic digestion
2.1.4 Gasification and Pyrolysis
2.1.5 Integrated technologies
2.2 Limitations of current Waste-to-energy processes
2.2.1 Performance and operational issues
2.2.2 Cost effectiveness issues
2.2.3 Lower flexibility problems
3. From standalone WtE processes to waste-integrated biorefineries
3.1 Tools to minimize the limitations of available WtE processes
3.2 Biorefineries
3.3 Biorefineries through process integration
3.4 Waste-integrated biorefineries
Part II: System configurations of the studied waste integrated biorefineries
4. From cogeneration to polygeneration: conversion of waste CHP plants to biorefineries
4.1 (Investigated cases and results)
4.2 WtE CHP plants integration with gasification
4.3 WtE CHP plants integration with Pyrolysis
4.4 WtE CHP plants integration with gas turbines
5. Conversion of existing biogas plants to waste integrated biorefineries
5.1 (Investigated cases and results)
5.2 Drying and co-incineration of digestate with waste
5.3 How to enhance biomethane from biogas plants
6. Thermodynamics and performance evaluation of waste biorefineries systems
7. Market and Feasibility Analysis of waste integrated biorefineries
Part III: Issues and challenges in commercialization of waste-to-energy technologies
8. Uncertainty in waste thermochemical process designs
9. Environmental impact of Waste-integrated biorefineries
10. Role of integrated waste-to-energy management in Smart cities and urban energy systems
- Edition: 1
- Published: April 25, 2023
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
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Jinyue Yan
Dr. Prof. Jinyue Yan, Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, KTH-Royal Institute of Technology and Mälardalen University, Sweden and now Chair Professor of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Prof. Yan is the EiC of Elsevier’s journal Advances in Applied Energy and CellPress's journal Nexus. He has served as the editorial board members for many prestigious journals such as Energy, Energy Conversion and Management, Journal of Energy Storage and etc. Prof. Yan has published more than 400 journal in the field of thermal energy utilization, renewable energy systems and CO2 mitigation.
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