Waste Biorefineries

Dr. Prof. Jinyue Yan, Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, KTH-Royal Institute of Technology and Mälardalen University, Sweden and now Chair Professor of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Prof. Yan is the EiC of Elsevier’s journal Advances in Applied Energy and CellPress's journal Nexus. He has served as the editorial board members for many prestigious journals such as Energy, Energy Conversion and Management, Journal of Energy Storage and etc. Prof. Yan has published more than 400 journal in the field of thermal energy utilization, renewable energy systems and CO2 mitigation. Chaudhary Awais Salman holds a doctorate in Energy and Environment Engineering and a Masters in Energy Innovation from KTH, Sweden, and a Masters in Renewable Energy from UPC, Spain. As a doctoral candidate, his research explores the utilization of waste to produce biofuels, heat and power through process-integration tools. His research interests lie in designing bioenergy processes, system analysis of thermochemical processing of biomass and waste, and waste management.

Part I: Introduction
1. Municipal waste management overview
2. Waste-to-Energy (WtE)
3. From standalone WtE processes to waste-integrated biorefineries

Part II: System configurations of the studied waste integrated biorefineries
4. From cogeneration to polygeneration: conversion of waste CHP plants to biorefineries
5. Conversion of existing biogas plants to waste integrated biorefineries
6. Thermodynamics and performance evaluation of waste biorefineries systems
7. Market and Feasibility Analysis of waste integrated biorefineries

Part III: Issues and challenges in commercialization of waste-to-energy technologies
8. Uncertainty in waste thermochemical process designs
9. Environmental impact of Waste-integrated biorefineries
10. Role of integrated waste-to-energy management in Smart cities and urban energy systems