Tarek L. Rashwan

TL;DR: In this paper, a review brings together theoretical, experimental, and modelling studies across both fire safety and applied smouldering research to produce a unified conceptual understanding of smoldering combustion.

TL;DR: Results suggest that operator-controlled air flux can assist in keeping the reaction self-sustaining in response to fluctuations in biosolids properties, and demonstrates the potential for smouldering as a new energy efficient biosolid disposal method for very wet (i.e., minimally processed) biosolides that may offer WWTPs significant operating cost savings.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors integrated highly instrumented smouldering experiments across numerous scales, a novel method of estimating non-uniform air flux in the experiments, analytical modelling to predict nonuniform cooling, and energy balance calculations to quantify the non-uneiform heat of smoulding.

TL;DR: Smouldering combustion has been demonstrated to be a highly energy efficient approach towards waste-to-energy. as discussed by the authors showed that the benefits of smouldering are principally due to the matching of the energy generation and transfer time scales as well as its low quenching temperature.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conducted and analyzed experiments in a variety of reactors extending beyond the laboratory scale, revealing a robust treatment regime; however, they also identified potential complications associated with perimeter heat losses at scale.