Treatment and Utilization of Combustion and Incineration Residues

Prof Lei Wang is a “Hundred-Talent Program” Research Fellow, National Excellent Young Scholar, and Humboldt Fellow at the College of Energy Engineering, Zhejiang University. Prof Wang obtained his PhD degree from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He was a Post-doctoral Fellow at The University of Sheffield and Technische Universität Dresden. His research interests include low-carbon treatment of hazardous waste, recycling combustion residues into sustainable construction materials, CO2 sequestration and utilisation in minerals. He has published over 70 papers in the Top 10% SCI journals, including 5 Hot Papers and 15 Highly Cited Papers, and co-edited one book and contributed chapters to 6 books (over 4500 citations with an h-index of 43). He has served as an Associate Editor for Soil Use and Manag., Editorial Board for J. Hazard. Mater., and Guest Editor for 9 leading SCI journals, and recognized as a Top Peer Reviewer by Publons and an Outstanding Reviewer by 5 Elsevier Journals. Prof. Tsang is the leading scientist in the fields of waste-to-resource technology, hazardous waste treatment, and carbon capture and utilization. Over the years, Dan has published more than 500 peer-reviewed papers in the top 10% journals, including 88 Highly Cited Papers as of March 2022. He was awarded as 2021-2023 Highly Cited Researcher (Clarivate Analytics) in two academic fields of Engineering as well as Environment and Ecology. He is the Chairman of the Hong Kong Waste Management Association, and the Waste Management Subcommittee of Advisory Council on the Environment, HKSAR Government. He has been invited to deliver more than 160 invited talks at international conferences and invited seminars at overseas universities. His professional contribution has been recognized by local and international communities, and he has served as the Editor-in-Chief, npj Materials Sustainability, Nature Portfolio (2023-), the Associate Editors for the top 10% journals, such as Science of the Total Environment (2018-2024), Critical Reviews in Environmental Science & Technology (2018-), Journal of Environmental Management (2022-), Journal of Hazardous Materials (2019-2021); and served as Editorial Boards for Bioresource Technology (2019-), Environmental Pollution (2019-), Chemosphere (2015-), etc. Prof. Jianhua Yan is a Vice President of Zhejiang University since 2016. He was awarded as Cheung Kong Scholar in China owing to his significant academic contribution to the field of waste-to-energy technology. His research interests focus on the clean and efficient incineration of solid wastes, incineration pollution control, and sustainable treatment and utilization of incineration ash. He has developed clean incineration technologies for municipal solid waste, integrated technologies of sludge drying and incineration, dioxin emission control and online measurement technologies. He established the first dioxin analytical laboratory in China in 2005. He has published over 400 peer-reviewed journal papers, 8 books and 67 invention patents. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of Waste Disposal & Sustainable Energy. In addition, as the first author, he won the second prize of the National Scientific and Technological Progress Award in China.

Part I Overview of combustion/incineration residues 1. Conception and process of combustion and incineration 2. Regulations and policies for combustion/incineration residues treatment and utilization 3. State-of-the-art characterization techniques for combustion/incineration residues 4. Characteristics of combustion residues, waste incineration residues, various slags

Part II Purification and detoxification of combustion/incineration residues 5. Cement-based immobilization of combustion/incineration residues 6. Sintering and melting of combustion/incineration residues 7. Hydrothermal treatment of combustion/incineration residues 8. Chemical agent-based immobilization of combustion/incineration residues 9. Electrochemical and mechanochemical treatment of combustion/incineration residues 10. Biochemical treatment of combustion/incineration residues 11. Washing and emerging treatment (carbonation/microwave) of combustion/incineration residues 12. Environmental risk assessment methodology on combustion/incineration residues

Part III Recycling of combustion/incineration residues into cement clinker 13. Recycling of pulverized fly ash into cement clinker 14. Recycling of incineration sewage sludge ash into cement clinker 15. Recycling of municipal solid waste incineration fly ash and bottom ash into cement clinker 16. Recycling of various slags into cement clinker

Part IV Recycling of combustion/incineration residues into SCMs and aggregates 17. Recycling of pulverized fuel ash into SCMs and aggregates 18. Recycling of biomass combustion ash into SCMs and aggregates 19. Recycling of incineration sewage sludge ash into SCMs and aggregates 20. Recycling of municipal solid waste incineration fly ash into SCMs and aggregates 21. Recycling of municipal solid waste incineration bottom ash into SCMs and aggregates 22. Recycling of various slags into SCMs and aggregates

Part V Recycling of combustion/incineration residues into functional materials 23. Recycling of combustion/incineration residues into zeolites and ceramics 24. Recycling of combustion/incineration residues into foaming agents 25. Recycling of combustion/incineration residues into soil amendments

Part VI Resource recovery from combustion/incineration residues 26. Resource recovery from pulverized coal fly ash and bottom ash 27. Resource recovery from incinerated sewage sludge ash 28. Resource recovery from municipal solid waste incineration fly ash 29. Resource recovery from various slags

Part VII Future prospects 30. Environmental impacts of combustion/incineration residue-derived products 31. Life cycle and cost-benefit analysis on different utilization/treatment strategies 32. Current bottlenecks and future directions on academic studies and industrial applications