Meet the editor

Professor Igor Pioro – Ph.D. (1983); Doctor of Technical Sciences (1992); Professional Engineer (Ontario, Canada) (2008); Fellow of ASME (2012), Canadian SME (2015), and Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC) (2013); member of ANS (2004), and Canadian NS (2010); is an internationally recognized scientist within the areas of nuclear engineering and thermal sciences/ engineering (https://nuclear.ontariotechu.ca/people/faculty/

dr-igor-pioro.php). He is an author/co-author of about 500 publications. Dr Pioro is a Founding Editor of the ASME Journal of Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Science. He was a Chair of the Executive Committee of the Nuclear Engineering Division of the ASME (2011-2012) and a Chair of the International Conference on Nuclear Engineering (ICONE-20) (2011-2012). Professor Pioro has received many international and national awards and certificates of appreciation.

Contents

*by Igor L. Pioro*

Upward Tubes

of Organic Wastes

*by Yanhui Li and Shuzhong Wang*

*by Ludmila Otilia Cinteza and Daniela Bala*

**Preface XI**

**Chapter 1 1**

**Chapter 2 43**

**Chapter 3 67**

**Chapter 4 89**

**Chapter 5 113**

**Chapter 6 131**

**Chapter 7 159**

Supercritical-Fluids Thermophysical Properties and Heat Transfer

Heat Transfer Correlations for Supercritical Water in Vertically

*by Huixiong Li, Xiangfei Kong, Xianliang Lei, Qian Zhang,* 

*Changjiang Liao, Lingtong Gou and Dongfeng Sun*

Heat Transfer Correlations of Supercritical Fluids

Resource Upgrading in Advanced Supercritical Fluid

(Supercritical Fluid with Catalyst and Cosolvent): Liquid Fuels from Biomass in Sub and Supercritical Water and Carbohydrate Up-Conversion in Ionic Liquid and Supercritical Fluids Mixtures *by Masaru Watanabe, Masayoshi Wagatsuma, Keisuke Suzuki, Takuma Kato, Yasuto Goto, Yukihiro Kanaguri and Yuya Hiraga*

Gasification Kinetics in Continuous Supercritical Water Reactors *by Brian Pinkard, John Kramlich, Per Reinhall and Igor Novosselov*

Supercritical Water Oxidation for Environmentally Friendly Treatment

Synthesis and Functionalization of Nanoparticles in Supercritical CO2

*by Fangbo Li, Binbin Pei and Bofeng Bai*

in Power-Engineering Applications
