Treatment and Utilization of Combustion and 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.

• Part I Overview of combustion/incineration residues1. Conception and process of combustion and incineration2. Regulations and policies for combustion/incineration residues treatment and utilization3. State-of-the-art characterization techniques for combustion/incineration residues4. Characteristics of combustion residues, waste incineration residues, various slagsPart II Purification and detoxification of combustion/incineration residues5. Cement-based immobilization of combustion/incineration residues6. Sintering and melting of combustion/incineration residues7. Hydrothermal treatment of combustion/incineration residues8. Chemical agent-based immobilization of combustion/incineration residues9. Electrochemical and mechanochemical treatment of combustion/incineration residues10. Biochemical treatment of combustion/incineration residues11. Washing and emerging treatment (carbonation/microwave) of combustion/incineration residues12. Environmental risk assessment methodology on combustion/incineration residuesPart III Recycling of combustion/incineration residues into cement clinker 13. Recycling of pulverized fly ash into cement clinker 14. Recycling of incineration sewage sludge ash into cement clinker 15. Recycling of municipal solid waste incineration fly ash and bottom ash into cement clinker16. Recycling of various slags into cement clinkerPart IV Recycling of combustion/incineration residues into SCMs and aggregates17. Recycling of pulverized fuel ash into SCMs and aggregates18. Recycling of biomass combustion ash into SCMs and aggregates19. Recycling of incineration sewage sludge ash into SCMs and aggregates20. Recycling of municipal solid waste incineration fly ash into SCMs and aggregates21. Recycling of municipal solid waste incineration bottom ash into SCMs and aggregates22. Recycling of various slags into SCMs and aggregatesPart V Recycling of combustion/incineration residues into functional materials23. Recycling of combustion/incineration residues into zeolites and ceramics24. Recycling of combustion/incineration residues into foaming agents25. Recycling of combustion/incineration residues into soil amendmentsPart VI Resource recovery from combustion/incineration residues26. Resource recovery from pulverized coal fly ash and bottom ash27. Resource recovery from incinerated sewage sludge ash28. Resource recovery from municipal solid waste incineration fly ash29. Resource recovery from various slagsPart VII Future prospects30. Environmental impacts of combustion/incineration residue-derived products 31. Life cycle and cost-benefit analysis on different utilization/treatment strategies32. Current bottlenecks and future directions on academic studies and industrial applications