Sustainable Energy Production Using Solid Materials

This textbook focuses on sustainable energy production using solid materials. With explanatory tables and figures, case studies, worked-out examples, and up-to-date bibliographies of other works, the book provides an in-depth exploration of the most innovative aspects of the field.

Readers of the book will gain critical skills in characterizing and reacting to biomass, including the formation of pollutants, as well as using fluidized bed reactors for heterogeneous processes. The book also explores innovative methods for mitigating the greenhouse effect, reusing ashes as adsorbents or in cement production, and thermochemical solar energy storage.

This book will give students, novice researchers, and industry professionals valuable insights and knowledge into the sustainable production of energy using solid materials.

Characteristics of solid biomass.- Char reactive processes, and extensions.- Biomass combustion.- Fluidised bed reactors.- Desulphurisation in fluidised beds.- Global warming due to carbon dioxide.- Innovative methods for carbon dioxide impact mitigation.- Biomass gasification.- Reuse of ashes (as adsorbents/in cement production).- Innovative systems based on solar energy accumulation in solid materials.- Biomass gasification.- Reuse of ashes (as adsorbents/in cement production).- Innovative systems based on solar energy accumulation in solid materials.

Fabio Montagnaro (Ph.D. Chemical Engineering) was born in Castellammare di Stabia (Naples, Italy) on January 26th, 1975. He is an Associate Professor in Chemical Plants at the Department of Chemical Sciences of the University of Naples Federico II. Delegate at European Federation of Chemical Engineering (Working Party on Comminution and Classification), with experience in editorial activities for international Journals and organizational roles for Conferences, his main scientific interests range from biomass thermoconversion to gaseous/liquid effluents purification, from renewables to reuse of wastes, from fluidization to processes with fractal dynamics.