Progress on the lignocellulosic biomass pyrolysis for biofuel production toward environmental sustainability

AT Hoang, HC Ong, IMR Fattah, CT Chong… - Fuel Processing …, 2021 - Elsevier
The increasing energy demand and diminishing fossil fuel sources have called for the
exploration of new energy sources. To satisfy growing global energy demand and …

Potential hazards of biochar: The negative environmental impacts of biochar applications

L Xiang, S Liu, S Ye, H Yang, B Song, F Qin… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2021 - Elsevier
Biochar has been widely used as an environmentally friendly material for soil improvement
and remediation, water pollution control, greenhouse gas emission reduction, and other …

A review on selective production of value-added chemicals via catalytic pyrolysis of lignocellulosic biomass

L Dai, Y Wang, Y Liu, C He, R Ruan, Z Yu… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Increasing fossil fuel consumption and global warming has been driving the worldwide
revolution towards renewable energy. Biomass is abundant and low-cost resource whereas …

Recent developments in lignocellulosic biomass catalytic fast pyrolysis: Strategies for the optimization of bio-oil quality and yield

X Chen, Q Che, S Li, Z Liu, H Yang, Y Chen… - Fuel Processing …, 2019 - Elsevier
Catalytic fast pyrolysis (CFP) is an attractive approach to convert biomass to high-quality bio-
oil through the deoxygenation of pyrolysis vapors in the form of H 2 O, CO, and CO 2 …

Lignocellulosic biomass pyrolysis mechanism: A state-of-the-art review

S Wang, G Dai, H Yang, Z Luo - Progress in energy and combustion …, 2017 - Elsevier
The past decades have seen increasing interest in developing pyrolysis pathways to
produce biofuels and bio-based chemicals from lignocellulosic biomass. Pyrolysis is a key …

Formation, characteristics, and applications of environmentally persistent free radicals in biochars: a review

X Ruan, Y Sun, W Du, Y Tang, Q Liu, Z Zhang… - Bioresource …, 2019 - Elsevier
Due to abundant biomass and eco-friendliness, biochar is exemplified as one of the most
promising candidates to mediate the degradation of environmental contaminants. Recently …

Biochar as a novel carbon-negative electron source and mediator: electron exchange capacity (EEC) and environmentally persistent free radicals (EPFRs): a review

J Yuan, Y Wen, DD Dionysiou, VK Sharma… - Chemical Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
Biochar is the pyrolysis product of biomass that has been explored as an effective adsorbent
for its high specific surface area, large porosity, and numerous surface functional groups …

Multi-scale complexities of solid acid catalysts in the catalytic fast pyrolysis of biomass for bio-oil production–A review

R Liu, M Sarker, MM Rahman, C Li, M Chai… - Progress in Energy and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Despite remarkable progress in catalytic fast pyrolysis, bio-oil production is far from
commercialization because of multi-scale challenges, and major constraints lie with …

Persistent free radicals in carbon-based materials on transformation of refractory organic contaminants (ROCs) in water: a critical review

Y Qin, G Li, Y Gao, L Zhang, YS Ok, T An - Water research, 2018 - Elsevier
With the increased concentrations and kinds of refractory organic contaminants (ROCs) in
aquatic environments, many previous reviews systematically summarized the applications of …

Recent advances in pyrolysis of cellulose to value-added chemicals

X Huang, J Ren, JY Ran, CL Qin, ZQ Yang… - Fuel Processing …, 2022 - Elsevier
Lignocellulosic biomass has gained growing interest as a promising substitute for the
production of renewable and sustainable chemicals and fuels as the dwindling fossil-fuel …