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Engineering. He has a solid background in chemical process design and evaluation,
separation and purification technologies, and experimental planning. As a researcher,
he belongs to the Process Engineering Group in the Engineering School of the Univer-
sity of Seville. His research profile has been developed while working in more than 10
national and international R&D projects and contracts. Most of them related to the
development of cleaner and more efficient energy processes and waste valorization
processes. As an academic staff, he is assistant professor of different subjects such
as “Analysis and design of Chemical Processes” (Master degree in Industrial Engineer-
ing), “Life-Cycle Assessment” (Master degree in Environmental Engineering),
“Chemistry” (Bachelor degree in Energy Engineering). He has research experience
in atmospheric pollutants abatement, waste valorization, and cleaner and more efficient
energy processes. He has gotten some research internships in the Process and Environ-
mental Technology Lab (PETLab), Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of
Engineering Technology, KU Leuven, Belgium, and the Laboratory of Microbial
Ecology and Technology (LabMET). Bioscience Engineering Faculty, University of
Ghent, Belgium.

Covadonga Pevida graduated from the University of Oviedo (Spain) where she
received her MEng and PhD in Chemical Engineering in 1999 and 2004, respectively.
Following her postdoctoral work at the Universities of Lyon 1 (IRCELyon) and
Nottingham, she got a position of tenured scientist at INCAR-CSIC in 2008. She is
currently Head of the Department of Coal, Energy and Environment at INCAR-
CSIC. Over the last 10 years her research activities have mainly focused on carbon
capture and biomass utilization.

Chungen Yin completed his PhD in 1998 at Zhejiang University, on clean coal com-
bustion. After that, he worked as assistant professor or postdoc in China, France, and
Denmark, respectively, focusing on thermochemical conversion of coal/biomass and
their mathematical modeling. Since 2004, he has been an associate professor at the
Department of Energy Technology in Aalborg University. He has over 20 years’
teaching and research experience in thermal/fluids engineering. His research expertise
and interest include advanced CFD modeling of turbulent multiphase flow systems
such as biomass/coal cofiring CFD, biomass/coal combustion for heat and power
generation, oxy-fuel combustion, smart calcination of clay for effective supplementary
cementitious materials, icing on wind turbine in cold regions, and biomass pyrolysis
and gasification. He has published 39 articles in prestigious journals in SCI database
(total impact points above 160) and also published over 70 peer-reviewed papers in
conference proceedings or ordinary journals, in most of which he is the first author
or the sole author. His h-index is 21 with about 1500 citations (Scopus) and 19 with
about 1300 citations (Web of Science).

David E. Pearson was born in Birmingham, England, and grew up in North Wales. He
has a BSc and a PhD from the University of Wales, at Swansea and has worked as a
field geologist and a coal petrographer since 1970. He founded his research company
in 1981 for microscopic evaluations of coking coals, steam coals, metallurgical cokes,