Gasification Technology: Transforming Waste Into Clean Energy

本書探討了對氣化技術日益增長的興趣，該技術已成為有效利用固體碳質材料進行能源生成和合成氣生產的主要途徑。固體的熱化學轉換，包括熱解、燃燒和氣化，已成為提取能源和增值化學品的主要方法。然而，氣化技術是利用固體燃料最有效和經濟的方式。了解氣化過程及其多樣化應用對於未來使氣化技術可持續發展至關重要。

本書為讀者提供了對氣化技術的深入理解，涵蓋其過去的使用、當前的情況和未來的展望。具體而言，在科學和技術迅速發展的新興世界中，本書提供了有關氣化技術的基本原理、應用和可持續發展的知識，涵蓋了各種固體燃料。

《氣化技術：將廢物轉化為清潔能源》為早期職業研究者、工程師以及研究與開發科學家提供了關於氣化的基本原理、工業應用和商業化的堅實知識基礎。

Dr. Manoj Kumar Jena is a postdoctoral research fellow in the School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. Dr. Jena obtained his Ph.D. from Curtin University, Perth, Australia, in joint association with the Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad, India. His research interests include understanding reaction kinetics, fluidized bed reactors, clean technologies, application of waste material (waste to energy), the advancement of thermal technology, and smart carbon materials synthesis and characterization. Dr. Jena completed his Bachelor of Technology and Master of Technology in chemical engineering from Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology, Odisha, India, and the Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad. He received the Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers Ambuja's Young Researcher's Award in 2017 for outstanding research work while studying for his Master's. Dr. Jena also has industrial experience as an engineer, working on computational projects. Dr. Jena has published five research articles as the first and corresponding author and has presented his work at national and international conferences and symposiums.

Professor Hari Vuthaluru completed his Ph.D. from the University of Newcastle on the pre-treatment of coal for remediation of ash-related problems in power utilities. Before commencing research work in Australia, he completed both Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in India and gained invaluable experience in several roles with Engineers India Ltd, Delhi. He is a Professor at the Western Australia School of Mines: Minerals, Energy and Chemical Engineering, Curtin University, and has worked as a Course Coordinator for 14 years for all graduate programs in the Department of Chemical Engineering. For the last several years, Dr. Vuthaluru has made extensive contributions to coal and biomass combustion research at national and international levels. His specific research interests include optimization of power utility equipment and chemical process units through CFD modeling, design and commissioning of bench-/pilot-scale facilities for coal conversion processes, ash-related issues in power utilities, desalination, and predictive tools for oil and gas industries, which include NTPC-India, BHEL-India, PT Berau and West Java power utility in Indonesia, Energy Research Foundation and KEMA in Holland and CSIRO, ACIRL, University of Newcastle, Wesfarmers Coal and Transfield Worley in Australia. Dr. Vuthaluru is a co-author of the books Flow Assurance of Crude Oil (Springer, 2023) and Parabolic Trough Solar Collectors: Thermal and Hydraulic Enhancement Using Passive Techniques and Nanofluids (Springer, 2022). He has published six book chapters and over 240 articles (refereed journal papers, conference papers, and industrial reports). He is an editorial board member of Fuel Processing Technology, The Open Fuels & Energy Science Journal, and the Journal of Chemical and Process Engineering. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) and a lifetime Senior Member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE).

Dr. Manoj Kumar Jena 是澳洲墨爾本 RMIT 大學化學與環境工程學院的博士後研究員。Jena 博士在澳洲珀斯的科廷大學獲得博士學位，並與印度達姆巴德的印度理工學院（印度礦業學院）聯合合作。他的研究興趣包括反應動力學、流化床反應器、清潔技術、廢物材料的應用（廢物轉能源）、熱技術的進步，以及智能碳材料的合成與表徵。Jena 博士在印度奧里薩邦的英迪拉甘地科技學院和印度達姆巴德的印度理工學院（印度礦業學院）完成了化學工程的學士和碩士學位。他在2017年因其碩士學習期間的傑出研究工作獲得印度化學工程師學會 Ambuja 年輕研究者獎。Jena 博士還擁有作為工程師的工業經驗，參與計算項目。他以第一作者和通訊作者身份發表了五篇研究文章，並在國內外的會議和研討會上展示了他的研究成果。

Hari Vuthaluru 教授在新卡斯爾大學完成了博士學位，研究煤的預處理以解決電力公用事業中的灰燼相關問題。在澳洲開始研究工作之前，他在印度完成了學士和碩士學位，並在 Engineers India Ltd, Delhi 擔任多個角色，獲得了寶貴的經驗。他是科廷大學西澳大利亞礦業學院的教授，並在化學工程系擔任了14年的課程協調員，負責所有研究生課程。在過去幾年中，Vuthaluru 博士在國內外的煤和生物質燃燒研究方面做出了廣泛的貢獻。他的具體研究興趣包括通過 CFD 模型優化電力公用事業設備和化學工藝單元、設計和啟動煤轉化過程的基準/試點規模設施、電力公用事業中的灰燼相關問題、海水淡化，以及為油氣行業提供預測工具，這些行業包括印度 NTPC、印度 BHEL、印尼的 PT Berau 和西爪哇電力公用事業、荷蘭的能源研究基金會和 KEMA，以及澳洲的 CSIRO、ACIRL、新卡斯爾大學、Wesfarmers Coal 和 Transfield Worley。Vuthaluru 博士是書籍《Flow Assurance of Crude Oil》（Springer, 2023）和《Parabolic Trough Solar Collectors: Thermal and Hydraulic Enhancement Using Passive Techniques and Nanofluids》（Springer, 2022）的共同作者。他發表了六篇書章和超過240篇文章（經審稿的期刊論文、會議論文和工業報告）。他是《Fuel Processing Technology》、《The Open Fuels & Energy Science Journal》和《Journal of Chemical and Process Engineering》的編輯委員會成員。他是化學工程師學會（IChemE）的院士，也是美國化學工程師學會（AIChE）的終身高級會員。