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Waste Biorefineries
Advanced Design Concepts for Integrated Waste to Energy Processes
- 1st Edition - April 25, 2023
- 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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Request a sales quoteWaste Biorefineries: Advanced Design Concepts for Integrated Waste to Energy Processes presents a detailed guide to the design of energy-efficient and cost-effective waste-integrated biorefineries. Integrating thermochemical processing of waste with existing waste-to-energy technologies, the book includes the latest developments and technologies. It introduces current waste valorization techniques and examines reasons to modify existing waste-to-energy systems through the integration of new processes. In addition, the book explains the design of novel biorefineries and methods to assess these processes alongside detailed results, including the integration of waste-based CHP plants with waste gasification and the integration of pyrolysis technologies and biogas plants with waste thermochemical processing.
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.
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
Academic and Industrial sector researchers related to bioenergy, specifically waste/biomass based combined heat and power plants, biogas plants, and forest-based industries
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Preface
- References
- Acknowledgments
- Personal acknowledgments
- Part I: Introduction
- Chapter 1: Overview of municipal waste management and challenges associated with its treatment
- Abstract
- 1.1: Introduction
- 1.2: Waste management for sustainable development
- 1.3: Fundamentals of municipal waste management
- 1.4: Waste management in some developed and developing countries
- 1.5: Economic implications of municipal solid waste management
- 1.6: Integrated waste management: Principles and applications
- 1.7: Current waste-to-energy processes and way forward
- References
- Chapter 2: Waste-to-energy (WtE): Current technologies and their future potential
- Abstract
- 2.1: Waste-to-energy technologies
- 2.2: Waste-to-energy products
- 2.3: Limitations of current waste-to-energy processes
- 2.4: Perspectives
- References
- Chapter 3: From standalone WtE processes to waste-integrated biorefineries
- Abstract
- 3.1: Tools to minimize the limitations of available WtE processes
- 3.2: Biorefineries through process integration
- 3.3: Waste-integrated biorefineries
- 3.4: Conceptual waste integrated biorefinery after thermochemical process integration with existing WtE processes
- 3.5: Aim and objectives
- 3.6: Point of departure
- References
- Part II: Systems of waste integrated biorefineries
- Chapter 4: From cogeneration to polygeneration: Conversion of existing waste CHP plants to waste-integrated biorefineries
- Abstract
- 4.1: Introduction
- 4.2: Industrial case studies
- 4.3: Process modeling and simulation
- 4.4: Description of operational scenarios
- 4.5: Technical performance indicators
- 4.6: Thermodynamics and performance evaluation of case studies
- 4.7: Perspectives
- References
- Chapter 5: Conversion of existing biogas plants to waste-integrated biorefineries
- Abstract
- 5.1: Introduction
- 5.2: Industrial case studies
- 5.3: Case 4: Pyrolysis process integration with biogas plants
- 5.4: Process modeling and simulation
- 5.5: Thermodynamics and performance evaluation results of case studies
- 5.6: Perspectives
- References
- Chapter 6: Design and analysis of centralized waste-integrated biorefinery concept
- Abstract
- 6.1: Why there is need of waste biorefineries
- 6.2: Centralized and decentralized biorefining of waste
- 6.3: Waste collection to centralized facility
- 6.4: Design of centralized waste biorefinery
- 6.5: Process modeling and simulation
- 6.6: Thermodynamic performance evaluation of centralized waste-integrated biorefinery
- 6.7: Perspectives
- References
- Chapter 7: Market and feasibility analysis of waste-integrated biorefineries
- Abstract
- 7.1: Introduction
- 7.2: Case studies
- 7.3: Economic performance indicators used to assess and report case studies
- 7.4: Method for economic analysis of waste-integrated biorefineries
- 7.5: Market and feasibility analysis of case studies
- 7.6: Multicriteria decision analysis to determine most feasible biofuel in waste-integrated biorefinery in case 1 to case 4
- 7.7: Perspectives
- References
- Part III: Challenges and opportunities in commercialization of waste-to-energy technologies
- Chapter 8: Uncertainty in waste-to-energy process designs and techno-economic analysis
- Abstract
- 8.1: Waste-to-energy process designs and their challenges
- 8.2: Uncertainties associated with the techno-economic analysis of waste-to-energy process design
- 8.3: Solutions to overcome uncertainties in waste-to-energy process design
- 8.4: Case study 1—Uncertainty in process design of waste gasification
- 8.5: Case study 2—Uncertainty in process design of waste pyrolysis
- 8.6: Variability in the economic analysis due to the inclusion of uncertainty in process simulations
- 8.7: Perspectives
- References
- Chapter 9: Conclusions and way forward
- Abstract
- 9.1: RQ1 (from Chapters 4 and 7)
- 9.2: RQ2 (from Chapters 4 and 7)
- 9.3: RQ3 (from Chapters 5 and 7)
- 9.4: RQ4 (from Chapter 8)
- 9.5: Centralized waste biorefineries (from Chapter 6)
- 9.6: Future work
- Index
- No. of pages: 298
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: April 25, 2023
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323917612
- eBook ISBN: 9780323983457
JY
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.
Affiliations and expertise
Chair Professor of Energy and Buildings, The Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityCS
Chaudhary Awais Salman
Chaudhary Awais Salman holds a doctorate in Energy and Environment Engineering and a Masters in Energy Innovation from KTH, Sweden, and a Masters in Renewable Energy from UPC, Spain. As a doctoral candidate, his research explores the utilization of waste to produce biofuels, heat and power through process-integration tools. His research interests lie in designing bioenergy processes, system analysis of thermochemical processing of biomass and waste, and waste management.
Affiliations and expertise
Post-doctoral Researcher, Mälardalen University, SwedenRead Waste Biorefineries on ScienceDirect