Meet the editors

Chaouki Ghenai is an Associate Professor at the Sustainable and Renewable Energy Engineering (SREE) Department, College of Engineering; Coordinator of the Sustainable Energy Development Research Group at the Research Institute of Science and Engineering (RISE); and the Chairman of the Research Funding Department at the Office of Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Studies, University of Sharjah. Dr. Ghenai has a PhD

in Mechanical Engineering from Orleans University, France. Before joining the University of Sharjah, he worked at the Florida Atlantic University, Florida International University, University of Los Angeles California, Kansas State University, and Cornell University. Dr. Ghenai's research interests are renewable energy, energy efficiency, energy conversion systems, combustion, biofuels, alternative fuels, clean combustion technologies, waste to energy, sustainability, eco-design, energy-water nexus, energy planning and climate change mitigation assessment, modeling and simulation of micro gird power systems, and air pollution. Dr. Ghenai has more than 100 papers published in journals, conferences, books, and book chapters.

Dr. Abrar Inayat has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sustainable and Renewable Energy Engineering at University of Sharjah since 2015. He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Malaysia. He completed his Masters in Energy Engineering from Mälardalens University, Sweden. Dr. Abrar has published more than 90 research articles including journal articles and confer-

ence proceedings. He has successfully completed many research projects by university-industry collaboration and has obtained several international awards. His main research fields are renewable and sustainable energy systems, biomass and bioenergy, process system engineering, production of biofuels, modelling, simulation and optimization of biomass processing technologies, process integration, CO2 capture and utilization, heat integration, energy management, and hybrid energy systems.

Contents

**Section 1**

**Section 2**

Porous Media

Waste to Energy and Syngas

*by Enrique Posada and Gilmar Saenz*

Syngas Production, Properties, and Its Importance *by Raghda Ahmed El-Nagar and Alaa Ali Ghanem*

Upgrading of Heavy Crude Oil and Bitumen

*by Mario Toledo Torres and Nicolás Ripoll Kameid*

*by Zhang Min and Zhang Haifeng*

*Enara Fernandez and Martin Olazar*

Waste Plastic Gasification

Gasification Which Used Anthracite as Raw Material

**Preface III**

Syngas Fuel **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 23**

**Chapter 3 31**

Syngas Fuel Production **49**

**Chapter 4 51**

**Chapter 5 61**

**Chapter 6 73**

Sustainability Effect of Water Gas Shift Reaction (Syngas) in Catalytic

Syngas Fuel Production from Carbonaceous Feedstocks Using Hybrid

Discussion on the Feasibility of Industrial Fuel Gas Prepared by Lurgi

Development of the Conical Spouted Bed Technology for Biomass and

*by Jon Alvarez, Gartzen Lopez, María Cortazar, Laura Santamaria,* 

*by Onoriode P. Avbenake, Faruk Ibrahim Yakasai and Baba Y. Jibril*
