A review of torrefaction of oil palm solid wastes for biofuel production

MA Sukiran, F Abnisa, WMAW Daud, NA Bakar… - Energy Conversion and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Palm oil industry is recognized as one of the major agriculture contributions to the abundant
production of oil palm solid wastes. These include empty fruit bunches, palm kernel shell …

Biomass pretreatment and characterization: a review

A Anukam, J Berghel - Biotechnological applications of biomass, 2021 - books.google.com
Biomass has the potential to replace conventional fuels in a number of applications,
particularly in biofuel production. It is an abundantly available renewable material with great …

Comparison of characterization and adsorption of biochars produced from hydrothermal carbonization and pyrolysis

X Jian, X Zhuang, B Li, X Xu, Z Wei, Y Song… - … Technology & Innovation, 2018 - Elsevier
Two types of rice-husk biochars, hydrothermally produced hydrochar and slow-pyrolysis
pyrochar, were produced at different temperatures and were characterized and used as …

Development of sustainable biomass residues for biofuels applications

MA Shah, G Hayder, R Kumar, V Kumar, T Ahamad… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
A comprehensive understanding of physiochemical properties, thermal degradation
behavior and chemical composition is significant for biomass residues before their …

Elucidating the bioenergy potential of raw, hydrothermally carbonized and torrefied waste Arundo donax biomass in terms of physicochemical characterization, kinetic …

A Nawaz, P Kumar - Renewable Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
The present investigation aimed to understand the pyrolysis kinetic behavior of raw Arundo
donax (Raw-AD), hydrothermally carbonized Arundo donax (HTC-AD), and torrefied Arundo …

Characterization of woodstove briquettes from torrefied biomass and coal

A Trubetskaya, JJ Leahy, E Yazhenskikh, M Müller… - Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
Using waste biomass materials offers the potential to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions
from fossil fuels. Torrefaction is very useful for improving the fuel properties of biomass in …

Effect of torrefaction on the physicochemical properties of eucalyptus derived biofuels: estimation of kinetic parameters and optimizing torrefaction using response …

RK Singh, A Sarkar, JP Chakraborty - Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Torrefaction of eucalyptus has been carried out in a tubular quartz reactor at different
temperatures and residence time under the nitrogen atmosphere. Based on statistical …

Studies on characterization of corn cob for application in a gasification process for energy production

AI Anukam, BP Goso, OO Okoh… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Quintessential characteristics of corn cob were investigated in this study in order to
determine its gasification potential. Results were interpreted in relation to gasification with …

Effect of torrefaction on the physicochemical properties of pigeon pea stalk (Cajanus cajan) and estimation of kinetic parameters

R kumar Singh, A Sarkar, JP Chakraborty - Renewable Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
Torrefaction of biomass is an important preprocessing step which increases energy density
and higher heating value. Torrefaction of pigeon pea stalk has been carried out in a tubular …

Conversion of biomass blends (walnut shell and pearl millet) for the production of solid biofuel via torrefaction under different conditions

I Abdullah, N Ahmad, M Hussain, A Ahmed, U Ahmed… - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
The torrefaction of lignocellulose biomass was conducted to produce biochar with properties
compatible with coal. Two lignocellulose biomasses, pearl millet (PM) and walnut shell …