Novel environmentally friendly pretreatments have been developed in recent years to improve biomass fractionation.Solid-state fermentation (SSF) and treatment with ionic liquids show low environmental impact and can be used in biorefinery of biomass.In this work, these processes were assessed with brewery spent grain (BSG).First, BSG was used as a

This paper studies the performance analysis of wireless energy harvesting (EH) cluster-based multi-hop networks, where all communication nodes harvest energy from the radiated signals transmitted by multiple power beacons (PBs) to support the information transmission.To this end, we propose three relay selection schemes.The first scheme tries to se

Experimental campaigns were carried out on a 140kW fixed-bed biomass boiler to investigate the effect of primary and secondary air distribution on temperature and combustion products and to validate a numerical model.Specifically, a Computational Fluid Dynamics model for the freeboard, based on a single-phase turbulent reactive flow model, was lock