Pyrolysis Applications in Plastic Waste and Biomass Valorization
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Science and Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2024 | Viewed by 2341
Special Issue Editor
Interests: biomass gasification, pyrolysis, and torrefaction; adsorption of contaminants (mainly heavy metals) by porous solids; advances in mineral processing and management of mining waste; plastic waste management
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Dear Colleagues,
Plastic materials have been crucial to the development of science, technology, and almost all aspects of modern progress since the mid-twentieth century. However, the increasingly unsustainable culture of plastic consumption and the accumulation of plastics in landfills, oceans, and broader ecosystems have also caused negative and potentially irreversible environmental impacts. In recent decades, scientists and engineers have spent significant time and resources searching for more effective plastic waste management techniques based on thermochemical routes such as pyrolysis. On the other hand, biomass is a renewable source and potentially sustainable fossil fuel replacement due to its availability, lower processing cost, high conversion, and lower life cycle carbon emissions. Pyrolysis can also be used to convert biomass into high-quality liquid fuels and chemicals. Pyrolysis can be improved by the use of catalysts, which can reduce the temperature and reaction time and allow the production of chemicals with a higher added value.
This Special Issue seeks recent advances in both thermal and catalytic pyrolysis. The pyrolysis mechanisms, the influence of operating parameters and catalysts, and the characterization and applications of pyrolysis products will all be discussed.
Prof. Dr. Mónica Calero de Hoces
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- biomass
- plastic waste
- thermal pyrolysis
- catalytic pyrolysis
- valorization
- waste treatment
