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Chemical, structural and combustion characteristics of carbonaceous products obtained by hydrothermal carbonization of palm empty fruit bunches.

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Results show that solid hydrochars improve the combustion of low rank coals for energy generation and the influence of hydrothermally treated hydrochar on the co-combustion characteristics ofLow rank Indonesian coal is investigated.
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This article is published in Bioresource Technology.The article was published on 2013-05-01. It has received 361 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Hydrothermal carbonization & Char.

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A comparative review of biochar and hydrochar in terms of production, physico-chemical properties and applications

TL;DR: In this paper, an updated review on the fundamentals and reaction mechanisms of the slow-pyrolysis and hydrothermal carbonization (HTC) processes, identifies research gaps, and summarizes the physicochemical characteristics of chars for different applications in the industry.
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Hydrothermal conversion of biomass waste to activated carbon with high porosity: a review.

TL;DR: A systematic and critical review of the production of activated carbon from hydrochars is presented in this paper, where the current knowledge gaps and challenges involved in the hydrothermal carbonization of biomass waste are critically evaluated with suggestions for further research.
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A review of the hydrothermal carbonization of biomass waste for hydrochar formation: process conditions, fundamentals, and physicochemical properties.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented the critical hydrothermal parameters of hydrothermal carbonization, including temperature, residence time, heating rate, reactant concentration, and aqueous quality.
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Food waste-to-energy conversion technologies: Current status and future directions

TL;DR: The present review synthesizes the current knowledge available in the use of technologies for food-waste-to-energy conversion involving biological, thermal and thermochemical technologies and proposes future directions for more effective utilization of food waste for renewable energy generation from an interdisciplinary perspective.
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Occurrence and fate of emerging contaminants in water environment: A review

TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed existing research that provides reliable and quantitative information on pharmaceuticals, personal care products (PCPs), endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs), pharmaceuticals (PhACs) and their transformation products, whose occurrence at trace levels in treated wastewater is of concern for human health and the aquatic ecosystem.
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TL;DR: In this article, a thermocouple is used to measure the sample temperature in a Stanton HT-D thermobalance, the bead of which is positioned in or near the sample, depending on crucible design.
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Bio-energy in the black

TL;DR: The precise half-life of biochar is still disputed, and this will have important implications for the value of the technology, particularly in carbon trading as mentioned in this paper, and it is not clear under what conditions, and over what period of time, biochar develops its adsorbing properties.
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The production of carbon materials by hydrothermal carbonization of cellulose

TL;DR: In this article, the results of the elemental analysis with that obtained by different spectroscopic techniques (infrared and Raman spectroscopy, and XPS) have been inferred that, from a chemical point of view, the solid product consists of small clusters of condensed benzene rings that form stable groups with oxygen in the core.
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Engineering Carbon Materials from the Hydrothermal Carbonization Process of Biomass

TL;DR: It will be demonstrated that the HTC process can rationally design a rich family of carbonaceous and hybrid functional carbon materials with important applications in a sustainable fashion.
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Hydrothermal carbonization of biomass: A summary and discussion of chemical mechanisms for process engineering

TL;DR: In this article, a review summarizes knowledge about the chemical nature of this process from a process design point of view, including reaction mechanisms of hydrolysis, dehydration, decarboxylation, aromatization, and condensation polymerization.
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