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From Waste to Energy: Case Studies of Green Technology Implementation offers a detailed exploration of green energy implementation through real-world case studies from around the globe and across various sectors. Emphasizing the transformational impact of practical green technology applications, the book discusses dynamic solutions for converting waste into energy through waste-to-energy projects. In addition, it explores how different countries cooperate to utilize waste-to-energy processes, from waste management to developing international cooperation. Sections address both the economic and practical challenges associated with these technologies, providing a comprehensive assessment needed to evaluate the sustainability of such practices.
The book begins with an introduction to waste valorization and explores the various processes and managements of converting waste materials produced by industrial activities into valuable products or energy. Notably, it explores the transformation of agrowaste into biochar, which not only provides a sustainable method of waste management but also acts as a negative carbon technology, significantly contributing to climate change mitigation. In addition to exploring different methods for energy conversion, the book also provides a global perspective through case studies from different countries and regions of the world.
List of contents
1. Introduction: the role of waste valorization as sustainable energy sources.
2. Economic studies about the implementation of waste-to-energy processes and technologies.
3. The role of developing cooperation on the implementation waste-to-energy processes.
4. Sustainable fuel synthesis from agro residues via supercritical hydrothermal technologies: challenges, insights and perspectives.
5. Transforming Biomass Waste into Bioenergy through Hydrothermal Conversion.
6. Transforming Tire Waste Management: Navigating Towards a Circular Economy.
7. Comparative gas efficiency generation from desert date seeds (shell, peels) and moonlight flower leaves.
8. Energy potential of biomass of animal origin.
9. Strategies to enhance biogas production from pig livestock waste.
10. Transforming Waste into Energy: The Potential of Hydrogen in Fischer-Tropsch processes in Extremadura and combustion boilers.
11. Sustainable Agave Fiber Production: Evaluating Biorefinery Strategies for Residue Conversion by Integrating Bio- and Thermochemical Processes.
12. Prospective approach for green hydrogen production from lignocellulosic agrowaste.
13. Circular bio-based models for the valorization of different agricultural wastes in Mediterranean regions.
14. Plastic residues produce from industries, potential and prospects.
15. Production of Bioethanol from Cocoa Mucilage CCN51: Technical and Environmental Parameter Evaluation in Internal Combustion Engines.
16. Safflower as the cornerstone of a biorefinery with multiple applications: from transesterification to hydrothermal carbonization to energy production in micro gas turbines.
17. Digital twins provided with energy storage.
18. Conclusions: Towards a real and sustainable development through circular economy.
About the author
A multidisciplinary scientist, interested in a wide range of fields from biomass energy to biolubricant production from natural sources such as vegetable oils. Currently working as a researcher at the University of Extremadura, he has also worked in the Agricultural Technological Institute of Extremadura, belonging to CICYTEX (Scientific and Technological Research Center of Extremadura). With more than 50 research works published in international peer-reviewed journals, along with more than 50 communications in international conferences, he has contributed to the completion of various book chapters and books devoted to the abovementioned subjects.
As a university professor at the Industrial Engineering School (University of Extremadura, Spain), he has participated in courses in different university and mater degrees related to Engineering and Renewable Energies. He received his degree in Chemistry and the PhD degree at the University of Extremadura. With a wide experience in scientific research (he has published in prestigious international peer-reviewed journals), his current research in the Department of Applied Physics is based on combustion, pyrolysis, gasification, thermochemical processes, energy use of biomass waste, active carbons and biodiesel or bioethanol production, among others.
