From Crops and Wastes to Bioenergy: Current Status and Challenges

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He holds a B.Sc. degree in Thermal Power Plants from Odessa Polytechnic University (1981) in Ukraine a M.Sc. degree in Thermal Power Plants from the same institution and a Ph.D. degree in Steam Generators and Reactors Design from St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (1988) in Russia. In 2014 he did a Visiting Professor internship at Washington State University with a Fulbright /CAPES Visiting Scholar scholarship. He is currently a full professor at the Federal University of Itajubá and Coordinator of the Center for Excellence Group in Thermal Power and Distributed Generation - NEST. He has experience in the field of Mechanical Engineering with emphasis on Thermoelectric Generation working mainly on the following topics: thermochemical conversion of biomass cogeneration solar thermal thermoelectric power plants thermoelectric generation and life cycle assessment - LCA. He has 151 articles in journals 15 books and advised 27 doctoral theses and 66 master's theses. Manuel Garcia-Perez got his BSc in Chemical Engineering and his first master in Process Engineering from the Orientes University in Cuba. He got his MSc and his PhD from Laval University in Quebec Canada. After completing his PhD he did two post-doctoral assignments at the University of Georgia in US and at Monash University in Australia. He is currently a full professor and chair of the Biological Systems Engineering department at Washington State University. Dr. Garcia-Perez is associate editor of Biomass and Bioenergy and reviewer editor of the Journal of Analytical and Applied pyrolysis. He also served for six years at the USDA-DOE Biomass research and development technical advisory committee. Dr. Garcia-Perez has made contributions to advance our understanding of biomass thermochemical reactions the chemistry of pyrolysis-oils and carbonaceous materials. So far he has published more than 160 peer reviewed publications. Prof. Osvaldo J. Venturini graduated in Mechanical Engineering from Federal University of Itajuba UNIFEI (Brazil) in 1993 and received his Ph.D. degree from UNIFEI in the field of Energy Conversion. Currently is Full Professor of Thermal Science at UNIFEI where he has been developing research activities and coordinating projects in areas related to alternative energy sources; modeling and optimization of thermal systems; hybrid biomass-solar systems; LCA; biomass carbonization waste valorization oil sludge gasification; sewage sludge drying and gasification etc. He has published 48 papers in journals 03 books 23 chapters in books supervised 10 Ph.D. and 30 master's theses. Since 2017 Prof. Osvaldo has been acting as the president of the Support Foundation for Teaching Research and Development of Itajubá. (FAPEPE). He also is a Productivity Fellow of the Brazilian National Research Council CNPq