Biorefineries: Targeting Energy, High Value Products and Waste Valorisation
暫譯: 生物精煉廠：針對能源、高價值產品與廢物增值

本書探討了將生物質轉化為各種可銷售產品的潛力，並檢視生物質的生物學、化學、生物化學、物理和熱處理，將其轉化為燃料、電力、熱能、飼料、化學品和材料等產品。各章節探討了多個主題，包括生物質特性、生物質預處理和可持續性分析，這些主題還輔以當前試點生物精煉廠實施的全球概述。本書為能源工程師、化學工程師、生物技術專家和經濟學家提供了寶貴的資源，對學生和政策制定者也將具有極大的興趣。

Mário Costa is a Full Professor in the area of Environment and Energy at the Mechanical Engineering Department of Instituto Superior Técnico (IST). He graduated in Chemical Engineering at University of Coimbra in 1984, obtained his PhD in Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College London in 1992 and his Habilitation in Mechanical Engineering at Technical University of Lisbon in 2009. Currently, he teaches the courses of Thermodynamics, Combustion, Renewables Energies and Integrated Energy Systems. He has supervised more than 100 MSc and Phd students. He has participated in more than 50 national and international projects in the area of Energy and Environment and has (co-)authored 1 book, more than 100 papers in international peer-reviewed journals and more than 150 papers in international conferences. He was the recipient of the Caleb Brett Award of the Institute of Energy in 1991, of the Sugden Award of the British Section of the Combustion Institute in 1991, of the Prémio Científico UTL/Santander Totta in 2010 and of a Menção Honrosa Universidade de Lisboa/Santander in 2016

Dr. Carla Silva received the Mechanical Engineering degree (five year course) in 2000 and the PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2005, at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), University of Lisbon, Portugal. She went for a post doc at both IST and University of Michigan working on CO2 mitigation in road vehicles. She was a senior researcher at the Institute of Mechanical Engineering IDMEC since 2008 to 2015. She is now assistant professor at the Department of Geographic, Geophysics and Energy Engineering at Faculdade de Cièncias. She teaches, in the integrated master of Energy and Environment Engineering, the courses of Sustainable Mobility, Bioenergy, Combustion Technologies, Life cycle assessement and Electrical circuits. She has supervised 40 MSc and 7 Phd students. She has 1 book, 2 book chapters, 50 papers in international peer-reviewed journals (h=19 google scholar) and more than 50 papers in international conferences. She is an active reviewer (https: //publons.com/author/570077/carla-silva#stats ). Has been awarded with 7 prizes, including the best mechanical engineering internship and the 3M prize for innovation. Areas of interest are new fuels; biomass; alternative road vehicle simulation; energy and environment impacts; life cycle assessment, indicators for sustainable mobility.

Ana Ferreira is a Post-doctoral in the area of Environment and Energy at the Mechanical Engineering Department of Instituto Superior Técnico (IST). She graduated and obtained her master degree in Chemistry, in the environmental area of analysis of atmospheric aerosols and atmospheric exposure, at Faculty of Science of University of Lisbon in 2005 and 2008, respectively. In 2013 completed her PhD in Environmental Engineering at IST of University of Lisbon. Currently she is a Post-doctoral researcher at Institute of Mechanical Engineering of IST, on alternative biomass and biofuels. She has more than 11 papers in international peer-reviewed journals, 1 book chapter and more than 28 papers in international conferences. She has participated in more than 5 national and international projects, including a Cost Action, in the area of Environment and Energy. She has been awarded third place in YEAR 2012 - The Young European Arena of Research during the Transportation Research Arena (TRA2012) in Athens, in 2012. Areas of interest are biomass, biomass conversion (e.g. combustion and pyrolysis), pollutant emissions, biofuels, energy and environment and life cycle assessment

Miriam Rabaçal is a Post-Doc researcher at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Lisboa, Portugal, and was a collaborator of the IDMEC/IST research institute from 2010 until she became an integrated member in 2016. She received a M.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering from IST in 2010. During her master thesis project, she held an Initiation to Research grant while working on small-scale biomass pellets combustion. After a four months' internship in Karunya University, Coimbatore, India, she returned to IST to pursue her PhD studies supported a FCT PhD grant on Large Eddy Simulations of coal and biomass combustion. During her PhD studies, she spent six months in Imperial College London, 18 months in Duisburg Essen University and three months in TUB Freiberg for collaborative research on her PhD topic. She received her PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2016. She participated in more than five international and national research projects in the areas of High Performance Computing, Combustion and Energy. She has nine papers in international peer-reviewed journals, one book chpater and 24 communications in international scientific meetings.

**Mário Costa** 是里斯本高等技術學院 (Instituto Superior Técnico, IST) 機械工程系的環境與能源領域全職教授。他於1984年在科英布拉大學獲得化學工程學位，1992年在倫敦帝國學院獲得機械工程博士學位，並於2009年在里斯本技術大學獲得機械工程的資格認證。目前，他教授熱力學、燃燒、可再生能源和綜合能源系統等課程。他已指導超過100名碩士和博士生。他參與了超過50個國內外的能源與環境項目，並（共同）撰寫了1本書、超過100篇國際同行評審期刊論文以及超過150篇國際會議論文。他曾於1991年獲得能源學會的Caleb Brett獎、1991年英國燃燒學會的Sugden獎、2010年UTL/Santander Totta科學獎以及2016年里斯本大學/Santander的榮譽提名。

**Dr. Carla Silva** 於2000年在里斯本高等技術學院 (Instituto Superior Técnico, IST) 獲得機械工程學位（五年課程），並於2005年獲得機械工程博士學位。她曾在IST和密西根大學進行博士後研究，專注於道路交通工具的二氧化碳減排。自2008年至2015年，她擔任機械工程研究所 (IDMEC) 的高級研究員。她目前是科學學院地理、地球物理與能源工程系的助理教授。在能源與環境工程的綜合碩士課程中，她教授可持續交通、生物能源、燃燒技術、生命週期評估和電路等課程。她已指導40名碩士生和7名博士生。她擁有1本書、2章書籍、50篇國際同行評審期刊論文（h=19，根據Google Scholar）以及超過50篇國際會議論文。她是一名活躍的審稿人（https://publons.com/author/570077/carla-silva#stats）。她獲得了7個獎項，包括最佳機械工程實習獎和3M創新獎。她的研究興趣包括新燃料、生物質、替代道路交通工具模擬、能源與環境影響、生命週期評估和可持續交通指標。

**Ana Ferreira** 是里斯本高等技術學院 (Instituto Superior Técnico, IST) 環境與能源領域的博士後研究員。她於2005年和2008年在里斯本大學科學學院獲得化學學士和碩士學位，專注於大氣氣溶膠和大氣暴露的環境分析。2013年，她在里斯本大學的IST完成環境工程博士學位。目前，她是IST機械工程研究所的博士後研究員，專注於替代生物質和生物燃料。她在國際同行評審期刊上發表了超過11篇論文，1章書籍以及超過28篇國際會議論文。她參與了超過5個國內外項目，包括一個成本行動，專注於環境與能源領域。她於2012年在雅典的交通研究論壇 (TRA2012) 中獲得2012年歐洲年輕研究者競賽的第三名。她的研究興趣包括生物質、生物質轉化（例如燃燒和熱解）、污染物排放、生物燃料、能源與環境以及生命週期評估。

**Miriam Rabaçal** 是里斯本高等技術學院 (Instituto Superior Técnico, IST) 的博士後研究員，並自2010年起成為IDMEC/IST研究所的合作者，直到2016年成為正式成員。她於2010年在IST獲得機械工程碩士學位。在碩士論文項目中，她獲得了研究啟動資助，專注於小型生物質顆粒的燃燒。在印度科印巴多的Karunya大學進行了四個月的實習後，她返回IST繼續攻讀博士學位，並獲得FCT博士獎學金，研究煤和生物質燃燒的大渦模擬。在博士研究期間，她在倫敦帝國學院待了六個月，在杜伊斯堡-埃森大學待了18個月，並在弗賴貝格的TUB待了三個月，進行合作研究。她於2016年獲得機械工程博士學位。她參與了超過五個國際和國內的研究項目，專注於高性能計算、燃燒和能源領域。她在國際同行評審期刊上發表了九篇論文，1章書籍以及24篇國際科學會議的報告。