Development of Biochar-Based Functional Materials: Toward a Sustainable Platform Carbon Material

Increasing demand for fuels and chemicals, driven by factors including over-population, the threat of global warming and the scarcity of fossil resources, strains our resource system and necessitates the development of sustainable and innovative strategies for the chemical industry. Our society is currently experiencing constraints imposed by our resource system, which drives industry to increase its overall efficiency by improving existing processes or finding new uses for waste. Food supply chain waste emerged as a resource with a significant potential to be employed as a raw material for the production of fuels and chemicals given the abundant volumes globally generated, its contained diversity of functionalised chemical components and the opportunity to be utilised for higher value applications. The present manuscript is aimed to provide a general overview of the current and most innovative uses of food supply chain waste, providing a range of worldwide case-studies from around the globe. These studies will focus on examples illustrating the use of citrus peel, waste cooking oil and cashew shell nut liquid in countries such as China, the UK, Tanzania, Spain, Greece or Morocco. This work emphasises 2nd generation food waste valorisation and re-use strategies for the production of higher value and marketable products rather than conventional food waste processing (incineration for energy recovery, feed or composting) while highlighting issues linked to the use of food waste as a sustainable raw material. The influence of food regulations on food supply chain waste valorisation will also be addressed as well as our society's behavior towards food supply chain waste. “There was no ways of dealing with it that have not been known for thousands of years. These ways are essentially four: dumping it, burning it, converting it into something that can be used again, and minimizing the volume of material goods – future garbage – that is produced in the first place.” William Rathje on waste (1945–2012) – Director of the Tucson Garbage project.

Food waste as a valuable resource for the production of chemicals, materials and fuels. Current situation and global perspective

Competitive liquid biofuels from biomass

A review on novel processes of biodiesel production from waste cooking oil

Concern over the economics of accessing fossil fuel reserves, and widespread acceptance of the anthropogenic origin of rising CO2 emissions and associated climate change from combusting such carbon sources, is driving academic and commercial research into new routes to sustainable fuels to meet the demands of a rapidly rising global population. Here we discuss catalytic esterification and transesterification solutions to the clean synthesis of biodiesel, the most readily implemented and low cost, alternative source of transportation fuels to meet future societal demands.

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Heterogeneous catalysis for sustainable biodiesel production via esterification and transesterification

Synthesis of biodiesel from waste vegetable oil with large amounts of free fatty acids using a carbon-based solid acid catalyst

Synthesis of biodiesel from a model waste oil feedstock using a carbon-based solid acid catalyst: Reaction and separation

Reaction Kinetics of Biodiesel Synthesis from Waste Oil Using a Carbon-based Solid Acid Catalyst

The invention provides a flue gas purification and sulphur recovery system and a process, comprising an adsorber, a desorber, an adsorbent delivery system, a heat energy integrated recovery system and a carbon powder separation and recovery system; meanwhile, suitable processing methods are adopted. The adsorber adopts a single-device dual-section radial staggered moving bed shaped like a reversed u and selective wide spectrum purification; the desorber adopts an axial reflux moving bed to realize the integrated recovery and utilization of the heat energy, regeneration of the adsorbent and the recovery of sulphur resource; the adsorbent adopts dense phase pneumatic conveying, thus leading the system to run continuously and stably; the flue gas purification and the sulphur recovery are realized by the carbon-based column-shaped or sphere-shaped desulfurization and denitration adsorbent. The system effectively integrates the energy-saving, exhaust and consumption reduction and resource recovery and utilization together, and has the advantages of high-effect wide spectrum purification and sulphur resource recovery, good gas distribution, grain movement and low pressure reduction, integrated recovery and utilization of heat energy, delivering the absorbent with no mechanical parts, continuous and stable operation of system, saving equipment investment and operation expense, etc.

Jixian Gao

Papers

Synthesis of biodiesel from waste vegetable oil with large amounts of free fatty acids using a carbon-based solid acid catalyst

Synthesis of biodiesel from a model waste oil feedstock using a carbon-based solid acid catalyst: Reaction and separation

Reaction Kinetics of Biodiesel Synthesis from Waste Oil Using a Carbon-based Solid Acid Catalyst

System for purifying flue gas and recovering sulfur and technique

An Adsorption Kinetic Model for Sulfur Dioxide Adsorption by ZL50 Activated Carbon