**Meet the editor**

Dr. Yongseung Yun majored in chemical engineering and received his PhD degree from the University of Utah in 1990; MS degree from KAIST, Korea, in 1981; and BS degree from Yonsei University, Korea, in 1979. He currently works as the director at Plant Engineering Division, IAE, in Korea. At KIST from 1981 to 1984, he researched on the oil agglomeration and FBC. For his

PhD degree, he worked on the low-temperature air oxidation of coal. At Brown University from 1991 to 1992, he researched on the pretreatment methods for coal liquefaction. He has concentrated on coal gasification for IGCC from 1993 until now. From 2000, he expanded gasification research to wastes. From 2013, he has been working as the president in Korea Association of Waste to Energy (KAWET) and as vice president of KSWM, Korea DME Association, and KSIEC.

Contents

**Preface VII**

**Section 1 Biomass Gasification 1**

Chapter 1 **Biomass Gasification: An Overview of Technological Barriers**

Chapter 2 **Current Developments in Thermochemical Conversion of**

Lola Domnina B. Pestaño and Wilfredo I. José

Chan Seung Park, Partho Sarothi Roy and Su Hyun Kim

Chapter 3 **Development of Torrefaction Technology for Solid Fuel Using**

Chapter 4 **Thermodynamic and Kinetic Study of Lignocellulosic Waste**

Chapter 5 **Experimental Observation on Downdraft Gasification for**

Chapter 6 **Recent Trends in Gasification Based Waste-to-Energy 97**

Yong-Chil Seo, Md Tanvir Alam and Won-Seok Yang

Rosa Ana Rodriguez, Germán Mazza, Marcelo Echegaray, Anabel

Muhammad Saghir, Mohammad Rehan and Abdul-Sattar Nizami

Xiang Luo, Tao Wu, Kaiqi Shi, Mingxuan Song and Yusen Rao

**and Socio-Environmental Impact 3**

**Biomass to Fuels and Chemicals 19**

Fernandez and Daniela Zalazar García

**Different Biomass Feedstocks 79**

Chapter 7 **Gasification of Municipal Solid Waste 115**

**Renewable Biomass 43**

**Gasification 57**

Edris Madadian

**Section 2 Wastes Gasification 95**
