Innovative Energy Conversion from Biomass Waste

Innovative Energy Conversion from Biomass Waste offers a new approach to optimizing energy recovery from waste using thermochemical conversion. Instead of conventional pinch technology, the book proposes integrated systems employing exergy recovery and process integration technologies to minimize exergy loss due to entropy generation. This innovative approach is demonstrated in three case studies using high-potential low-rank fuels from industrial waste products with high moisture content, high volatile matter, and high hemicellulose content. From these case studies, readers are provided with three different examples of biomass type, pre-treatment route, and conversion, from fruit bunch cofired within existing coal power plants, black liquor in a stand-alone system, and rice waste processing integrated into existing agricultural systems.

Innovative Energy Conversion from Biomass Waste is a valuable resource for researchers and practitioners alike, and will be of interest to environmental scientists, biotechnologists, and chemical engineers working in waste-to-energy and renewable energy.

• Provides a new approach to developing systems based on exergy recovery and process integration technologies
• Discusses the possible routes of energy recovery in different scenarios from selected low-rank fuels from industrial waste biomass
• Includes a replicable and applicable efficiency improvement method for different process developments

Arif Darmawan is a Researcher at the Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology or BPPT (currently integrated into the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN)), Indonesia. He received his PhD degree in Transdisciplinary Science and Engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. His research interests include energy systems, process engineering, hydrogen production–storage–utilization, and biomass-to-energy, and he is dedicated to the study of energy sustainability. He has published over 28 publications in reputable scientific journals, book chapters, and conference proceedings.

Muhammad Aziz is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo, Japan. He specializes in energy systems, process engineering, heat transfer, hydrogen production–storage–use, and electric vehicle utilization. He is also a member of many editorial boards and a reviewer for more than 20 reputable journals. He has published over 250 publications in scientific journals, book chapters, and conference proceedings.