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Biomass-Burning

A special issue of Fire (ISSN 2571-6255).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2024 | Viewed by 10518

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Dr. Adina Magdalena Musuc

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Department of Chemical Kinetics, “Ilie Murgulescu” Institute of Physical Chemistry, Romanian Academy, 060021 Bucharest, Romania
Interests: physical chemistry, physico-chemical characterization of materials; drug delivery; pharmaceuticals development; thermal analysis; kinetics; biopolymers, cyclodextrin inclusion complexes; hydrogels; biomaterials for biomedical applications; oxide materials design/synthesis and the thermoreactivity of precursor-oxide transformations; green chemistry; thermal properties; physicochemical characterization; nanomaterials for biomedicine; nanomaterials for energy applications; catalysis
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Dear Colleagues,

I am pleased to invite you to submit a manuscript to the Special Issue on “Biomass-Burning” in Fire journal.

Biomass burning produces huge quantities of different gaseous pollutants and aerosol particles into the atmosphere, with a dangerous effect on human health, air quality, and climate change. Biomass material when burned releases massive kinds of gases such as carbon monoxide (CO), methane (CH4), nitrous oxides (NOx), organic acid, aldehydes, inorganic elements, volatile and semi-volatile organic compounds, and particulate matter.

Therefore, this Special Issue aims to present advances in the studies of burning of agricultural wastes, the use of biofuels, burning of living and dead vegetation, the impacts of biomass burning on air quality, burning of biomass for fuel, modelling and simulation of fossil fuel combustion, biomass for energy and hazard assessment.

In this Special Issue, original contributions as full-length research articles, review manuscripts and short communications are kindly welcome.

I look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Adina Magdalena Musuc
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • physico-chemical characterization
  • biomass-burning emissions
  • combustion
  • calorimetry
  • thermochemical reactions
  • heat transfer
  • ignition characteristics
  • energy
  • fossil fuel combustion
  • agricultural waste
  • biomass for fuel

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Updated Land Use and Land Cover Information Improves Biomass Burning Emission Estimates
by Guilherme Mataveli, Gabriel Pereira, Alber Sanchez, Gabriel de Oliveira, Matthew W. Jones, Saulo R. Freitas and Luiz E. O. C. Aragão
Fire 2023, 6(11), 426; https://doi.org/10.3390/fire6110426 - 07 Nov 2023
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Biomass burning (BB) emissions negatively impact the biosphere and human lives. Orbital remote sensing and modelling are used to estimate BB emissions on regional to global scales, but these estimates are subject to errors related to the parameters, data, and methods available. For [...] Read more.
Biomass burning (BB) emissions negatively impact the biosphere and human lives. Orbital remote sensing and modelling are used to estimate BB emissions on regional to global scales, but these estimates are subject to errors related to the parameters, data, and methods available. For example, emission factors (mass emitted by species during BB per mass of dry matter burned) are based on land use and land cover (LULC) classifications that vary considerably across products. In this work, we evaluate how BB emissions vary in the PREP-CHEM-SRC emission estimator tool (version 1.8.3) when it is run with original LULC data from MDC12Q1 (collection 5.1) and newer LULC data from MapBiomas (collection 6.0). We compare the results using both datasets in the Brazilian Amazon and Cerrado biomes during the 2002–2020 time series. A major reallocation of emissions occurs within Brazil when using the MapBiomas product, with emissions decreasing by 788 Gg (−1.91% year−1) in the Amazon and emissions increasing by 371 Gg (2.44% year−1) in the Cerrado. The differences identified are mostly associated with the better capture of the deforestation process in the Amazon and forest formations in Northern Cerrado with the MapBiomas product, as emissions in forest-related LULCs decreased by 5260 Gg in the Amazon biome and increased by 1676 Gg in the Cerrado biome. This is an important improvement to PREP-CHEM-SRC, which could be considered the tool to build South America’s official BB emission inventory and to provide a basis for setting emission reduction targets and assessing the effectiveness of mitigation strategies. Full article
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Experimental Study of the Combustion of and Emissions from Olive and Citrus Pellets in a Small Boiler
by Adriano Palma, Francesco Gallucci, Salvatore Papandrea, Monica Carnevale, Enrico Paris, Beatrice Vincenti, Mariangela Salerno, Valerio Di Stefano and Andrea Rosario Proto
Fire 2023, 6(8), 288; https://doi.org/10.3390/fire6080288 - 29 Jul 2023
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Agro-industrial activities generate a great amount of bioproducts as biomass residues containing energy and with potentially useful applications in the thermochemical conversion process. The management of this feedstock as uncontrolled combustion (“open burning”) can often be a problem within the supply chain for [...] Read more.
Agro-industrial activities generate a great amount of bioproducts as biomass residues containing energy and with potentially useful applications in the thermochemical conversion process. The management of this feedstock as uncontrolled combustion (“open burning”) can often be a problem within the supply chain for disposal practices, both in environmental and economic aspects. The residual matrices from agroforestry biomass processing can be treated to increase their energy levels and economic value. A widespread practice for sustainable disposal is the production of pellets from residual biomass, such as pruning. The aim of this study is to explore the combustion of pellets obtained from olive and citrus pruning, and their emissions into the atmosphere. This study confirms the possibility of using waste biomass to obtain a high-energy biofuel that is usable in a controlled combustion system and to monitor the process and its related emissions (CO, CO2, NOx, SO2, PM). Three different pellets (olive pellet, citrus pellet and a pellet obtained from a mix of olive and citrus) were characterized to determine their physicochemical properties and burned in an 80 kWth boiler equipped with multicyclone filter bags as an abatement system to evaluate relative emission. The characterization results show that citrus pellet has a higher ash content, moisture content and lower energy value than mixtures of olive pellet. The emission results suggest that, during combustion, higher emissions of CO and SO2 were monitored from mixtures of citrus pellet compared to burning only olive pellet. Full article
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Thermochemical Characterization of Rice-Derived Residues for Fuel Use and Its Potential for Slagging Tendency
by Chi-Hung Tsai, Yun-Hwei Shen and Wen-Tien Tsai
Fire 2023, 6(6), 230; https://doi.org/10.3390/fire6060230 - 08 Jun 2023
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Rice is the most important cereal in Asia. However, it also results in the generation of large quantities of rice-derived residues (i.e., rice straw and rice husk). Due to the residues richness in lignocellulosic components, they potentially have considerable value in material and/or [...] Read more.
Rice is the most important cereal in Asia. However, it also results in the generation of large quantities of rice-derived residues (i.e., rice straw and rice husk). Due to the residues richness in lignocellulosic components, they potentially have considerable value in material and/or energy production without illegal burning in open fields. This work focused on investigating the thermochemical properties and inorganic/metal element contents of rice straw and rice husk. The former included proximate analysis, calorific value, thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) and energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS). The latter covered the ten elements most relevant to their slagging/fouling indices. The results showed that they are suitable for energy use as biomass fuels, but rice husk was superior to rice straw because of the high silica content in the rice husk and the significant contents of potassium, sulfur and phosphorus in the rice straw. Using several slagging and fouling indices, the evaluation results were also consistent with their contents of inorganic elements or oxides. To increase the fuel properties of rice-derived residues, they could be pretreated with alkaline leaching, thus causing lower emissions of particulates and reduced slagging tendency when co-firing them with coal in industrial boilers. Full article
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Analysis of Ash Melting Temperatures of Agricultural Pellets Detected during Different Conditions
by Nikola Čajová Kantová, Michal Holubčík, Juraj Trnka and Alexander Čaja
Fire 2023, 6(3), 88; https://doi.org/10.3390/fire6030088 - 24 Feb 2023
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Agricultural and other residues are promising renewable energy sources. However, they can cause problems in combustion processes. One of these problems is also low ash melting temperatures. Except, the ash melting behavior can be impacted by many factors, such as ash preparation or [...] Read more.
Agricultural and other residues are promising renewable energy sources. However, they can cause problems in combustion processes. One of these problems is also low ash melting temperatures. Except, the ash melting behavior can be impacted by many factors, such as ash preparation or used atmosphere. This article deals with comparing different atmosphere conditions during measurements of ash melting temperatures of three agricultural pellets: alfalfa, straw, and hay. The first one was oxidizing with compressed air and nitrogen. The second atmosphere was reduced with the air purge, and the last was only reduced, consisting of 60% carbon monoxide and 40% carbon dioxide. Differences between individual atmospheres were none, up to 9.8%. The most significant differences have appeared between oxidizing and reducing atmospheres. In general, the oxidizing atmosphere presents a less expensive way. More attention should be paid to the use of oxidizing atmosphere for applications in heat sources mainly due to its similarity to the combustion process. However, it would be suitable to realize more comprehensive research regarding ash preparation in different ways and with using of different types of fuel. Full article
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Green Conversion of Carbon Dioxide and Sustainable Fuel Synthesis
by Hosam M. Saleh and Amal I. Hassan
Fire 2023, 6(3), 128; https://doi.org/10.3390/fire6030128 - 22 Mar 2023
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Carbon capture and use may provide motivation for the global problem of mitigating global warming from substantial industrial emitters. Captured CO2 may be transformed into a range of products such as methanol as renewable energy sources. Polymers, cement, and heterogeneous catalysts for [...] Read more.
Carbon capture and use may provide motivation for the global problem of mitigating global warming from substantial industrial emitters. Captured CO2 may be transformed into a range of products such as methanol as renewable energy sources. Polymers, cement, and heterogeneous catalysts for varying chemical synthesis are examples of commercial goods. Because some of these components may be converted into power, CO2 is a feedstock and excellent energy transporter. By employing collected CO2 from the atmosphere as the primary hydrocarbon source, a carbon-neutral fuel may be created. The fuel is subsequently burned, and CO2 is released into the atmosphere like a byproduct of the combustion process. There is no net carbon dioxide emitted or withdrawn from the environment during this process, hence the name carbon-neutral fuel. In a world with net-zero CO2 emissions, the anthroposphere will have attained its carbon hold-up capacity in response to a particular global average temperature increase, such as 1.5 °C. As a result, each carbon atom removed from the subsurface (lithosphere) must be returned to it, or it will be expelled into the atmosphere. CO2 removal technologies, such as biofuels with carbon sequestration and direct air capture, will be required to lower the high CO2 concentration in the atmosphere if the Paris Agreement’s ambitious climate targets are to be realized. In a carbon-neutral scenario, CO2 consumption with renewable energy is expected to contribute to the displacement of fossil fuels. This article includes a conceptual study and an evaluation of fuel technology that enables a carbon-neutral chemical industry in a net-zero-CO2-emissions environment. These are based on the use of collected CO2 as a feedstock in novel chemical processes, along with “green” hydrogen, or on the use of biomass. It will also shed light on innovative methods of green transformation and getting sustainable, environmentally friendly energy. Full article
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