Special Issue on Pyrolysis, Cracking and Cascaded Utilization

For long time the extraction of H-rich volatile or light species has been an attractive scientific and technical topic of carbonaceous fuel conversions. It can be realized via the technical process of pyrolysis for solid fuels and cracking for liquid as well as gas fuels. Essentially, both of them refer to the thermochemical decomposition of organic matters at elevated temperatures under oxygen-lean, even oxygen-free conditions.  Catalysis can also be involved in the process. Pyrolysis or cracking is the basis for developing cascaded utilization technologies of fuel resources, and it represents also the initial step for almost all thermochemical processes such as combustion and gasification of solid fuels and reforming of liquid or gaseous hydrocarbons. Therefore, it is of great significance to study and understand the science and technology related to pyrolysis and cracking. Indeed, pyrolysis as a representative fuel conversion technology is still under development and in face of many technical challenges or difficulties, whilst cracking with or without catalysis constitutes one of the hottest topic for petroleum industry and academy.    

With such recognitions, the journal Carbon Resources Conversion (CRC) launched a special issue entitled “Pyrolysis, Cracking and Cascaded Utilization”. Via assembling a collection of important state-of-the-art researches and developments, it intends to provide the community the latest insights into what we most recently know and operate about pyrolysis, cracking and their leading cascaded utilization of typical carbon resources in all related sciences and technologies. The main topics possibly considered for publication in this special issue include, but are not limited to the follows:

• Pyrolysis, with or without catalysis, of solid carbonaceous fuels or wastes including coal, biomass, oil shale, oil sand, municipal waste, waste organics such as plastics and rubbers, and others.
• Cracking, with or without catalysis, of liquid and gas fuels, such as heavy or residual oil, organic liquids, hydrocarbons, and so on.
• Pyrolysis or cracking of mixtures of different fuels, including synergetic effects of different fuels and catalytic effects due to inherent and extrinsic mineral matters.
• Characterization including measurement, kinetics and modeling or prediction of pyrolysis or cracking reactions.
• Effects of pyrolysis or cracking on other fuel conversion reactions such as char gasification, NOx reduction, etc.
• Separation, processing such as upgrading and utilization of products (gas, liquid and solid) from pyrolysis or cracking, including their involved catalysis.
• Cascaded utilization of fuel or carbon resources based on pyrolysis or cracking.
• Process technologies related to pyrolysis, cracking and cascaded utilization such as intensification, modeling, simulation, optimization, control, etc. 

Guest Editors:                       

• Prof. Shyuan Li, College of Science, China University of Petroleum (Beijing)
• Prof. Yu Qian, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, South China University of Technology
• Prof. Mo Chu, School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology

Important Dates:

• Submit your paper to the Special Issue before 31 May 2018.
• This special issue is scheduled to be published in September 2018.