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 Prof. Abd El-Fatah Abomohra School of Architecture and Civil Engineering (SACE), Chengdu University, China |
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| Title: Waste-to-Energy: Towards a circular bioeconomy and sustainable development | |
| Abstract: The exponential growth of the global population and concurrent fast industrialization led to massive generation of municipal wastes, with raised challenges of safe disposal. The proper management of municipal wastes through recycling is an essential approach for the global sustainable development. So far, many countries established regulatory guidelines for different waste management routes and pollution control measures. However, most of the applied routes are waste dumping, composting or direct discharge in water bodies without adequate pretreatment, which seriously threaten the environment and humans. Thus, proper waste segregation and separation provide an efficient option for waste conversion into energy. Waste-to-energy is nowadays a widely used statement for efficient waste management, which is getting much attention. Therefore, recent advances in waste-to-energy and the necessity to achieve a circular economy is a timely topic that deserves in-depth discussion. This speech aims to cover the recent updates in the waste-to-energy field, starting from waste generation to large-scale application and industrialization for biofuel production. In addition, the necessity of integration of different conversion routes will be discussed in order to introduce all the latest novel technologies for a circular bioeconomy. | |
| Biography: Abd El-Fatah Abomohra, PhD, is a Professor of Environmental Engineering at the Department of Environmental Engineering, School of Architecture and Civil Engineering (SACE), Chengdu University (China). He received his PhD in “Phycology” through a cooperation program between Tanta University (Egypt) and Hamburg University (Germany) funded by Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD). He performed postdoctoral research at Hamburg University (Germany) and Harbin Institute of Technology (China). After his graduation, he worked as a faculty member at Tanta University (Egypt), Jiangsu University (China) and Chengdu University (China). His major is interdisciplinary of microbiology and environmental engineering. He has stupendous research experiences and finite vision in the field of biofuel production. According to Web of Science, he published more than 80 SCI papers, most of them in Q1 journals with one paper as “Highly Cited Paper”. In 2020, he nominated among the Top-10 publications and citation at Tanta University (Egypt). Recently in 2020, he published a very valuable review article in one of the top energy journals “Progress in Energy and Combustion Science” (CiteScore 48.3 and Impact Factor 28.9). His research group is primarily working on bioenergy production from different biomass feedstocks and wastes. | |
