Treatment and Utilization of Combustion and Incineration Residues introduces state-of-art strategies for combustion and incineration solid residue management and utilization. The book also reviews current technologies for pollutant removal and control of combustion and incineration residues. Recycling ashes and slags in sustainable construction materials are also evaluated on environmental impacts and engineering values, and the use of different ashes and slags in cement clinker production is classified based on the sources and properties of the residues. In addition, the recovery of valuable metals and inorganic elements is also discussed.
Finally, the book examines the latest understanding of reaction mechanisms of various treatment technologies, the future design of treatment technologies, and the actualization of sustainable management for combustion/incineration residues.
Dr Lei Wang is a Hundred-Talent Program Research Fellow, National Excellent Young Scholar, and Humboldt Fellow at the College of Energy Engineering, Zhejiang University. His research interests include sustainable waste-to-energy technologies, low-carbon hazardous waste treatment, CO2 sequestration and utilisation in minerals.
Ir Prof. Dan Tsang is a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Pao Yue-Kong Chair Professor in the State Key Laboratory of Clean Energy Utilization at Zhejiang University in China. Dan was a Professor and MSc Programme Leader at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Visiting Professor at the University of Queensland in Australia and Chulalongkorn University in Thailand, Visiting Scholar at Stanford University in the US and IMETE Scholar at Ghent University in Belgium, and postdoctoral fellow at Imperial College London in the UK. He has more than 20 years of R&D experience, published more than 600 articles in the top 10% journals, and was selected as Stanford University's Top 2% Scientists (Lifetime) and Clarivate's Highly Cited Researchers in the academic fields of Engineering as well as Environment & Ecology. Dan's team aspires to develop green technologies for long-term decarbonization and promote resource circularity and sustainable development. Dan also serves as the founding Editor-in-Chief of npj Materials Sustainability (Nature Portfolio), Chairman of the Hong Kong Waste Management Association (2023-2025), and Chairman of Waste Management Subcommittee of the Advisory Council on the Environment (2023&2024) of the Hong Kong SAR Government.
Prof. Jianhua Yan is a Vice President of Zhejiang University since 2016. He was awarded as Cheung Kong Scholar in China owing to his significant academic contribution to the field of waste-to-energy technology. His research interests focus on the clean and efficient incineration of solid wastes, incineration pollution control, and sustainable treatment and utilization of incineration ash. He has developed clean incineration technologies for municipal solid waste, integrated technologies of sludge drying and incineration, dioxin emission control and online measurement technologies. He established the first dioxin analytical laboratory in China in 2005. He has published over 400 peer-reviewed journal papers, 8 books and 67 invention patents. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of Waste Disposal & Sustainable Energy. In addition, as the first author, he won the second prize of the National Scientific and Technological Progress Award in China.
