Choosing Physical, Physicochemical and Chemical Methods of Pre-Treating Lignocellulosic Wastes to Repurpose into Solid Fuels

Green conversion of municipal solid wastes into fuels and chemicals

Simple chemical transformation of lignocellulosic biomass into furans for fuels and chemicals.

Lignocellulosic biomass is a plentiful and renewable resource for fuels and chemicals. Despite this potential, nearly all renewable fuels and chemicals are now produced from edible resources, such as starch, sugars, and oils; the challenges imposed by notoriously recalcitrant and heterogeneous lignocellulosic feedstocks have made their production from nonfood biomass inefficient and uneconomica...

Chemical and Physicochemical Pretreatment of Lignocellulosic Biomass: A Review

Overcoming the recalcitrance (resistance of plant cell walls to deconstruction) of lignocellulosic biomass is a key step in the production of fuels and chemicals. The recalcitrance is due to the highly crystalline structure of cellulose which is embedded in a matrix of polymers-lignin and hemicellulose. The main goal of pretreatment is to overcome this recalcitrance, to separate the cellulose f...

Burning Chemical Wastes as Fuels in Cement Kilns

ctmada, Illichlgan, New York, Sweden, etc. Existing when properly operated, can destroy most organic v.n the moat complex chlorinated hydrocarbons, be completely destroyed during normal cement kdmal emlsslons to the environment. Burning in cen?8nl kilns, and other mineral Industries, o both industry, who generates such wastes, nd Wvemment, who want to dispose properly of such , mrfromnentally a...

Application of anaerobic digestion products of municipal solid food wastes in treating wastewaters

Anaerobic digestion is the breakdown of biodegradable organic material by microorganisms in the absence of oxygen or in an oxygen-starved environment.This technology is superior to the landfilling and also the aerobic composting. The aim of the present study was to examine whether the effluent Volatile Fatty Acids from the anaerobic acidogenesis of the food waste can be used du to its high valu...