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Waste Valorization to Fuel and Chemicals Through Pyrolysis: Technology, Feedstock, Products, and Economic Analysis

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Waste to Wealth

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The decreasing fossil fuel reserves, rise in oil prices, and increasing awareness of environmental impact of continued fossil fuel use have made the quest for alternative energy sources significant throughout the world. In this regard, conversion of various types of wastes to biofuels and biomaterials offers a new paradigm of research in the changing world faced with these diverse problems. Lignocellulosic biomasses are the most predominant among different types of waste resources and are characterized by diverse nature and abundant supply. However, it also has numerous competitive uses which shrink the biomass resource base for energy production. There are numerous biomass materials which are produced as by-products, residues, or wastes from other processes, operations, or industries. The energy content of these materials can be usefully exploited and have the advantage of removing these materials from the landfill. This chapter presents an overview of the pyrolytic conversion of low-value biomass/bio-wastes, agricultural residues, bioenergy by-product, industrial agro-wastes, aquatic wastes, MSW, plastic solid wastes to bio-oil and biochar and their wide-ranging applications. Further, this chapter also reviews the pyrolysis technology and its economic analysis.

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The authors would like to offer their sincere thanks and acknowledgement for the support from Tezpur University and University Grants Commission, New Delhi, India [Grant No. 42-723/2013 (SR)] received in the form of UGC-MRP. The authors RN, DS, and RS sincerely acknowledge the receipt of fellowships from UGC and CSIR, respectively.

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Kataki, R. et al. (2018). Waste Valorization to Fuel and Chemicals Through Pyrolysis: Technology, Feedstock, Products, and Economic Analysis. In: Singhania, R., Agarwal, R., Kumar, R., Sukumaran, R. (eds) Waste to Wealth. Energy, Environment, and Sustainability. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7431-8_21

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