Wood Waste Management and Products

Wood waste categorization and reuse possibilities.- Challenges and opportunities in wood waste utilization.- Life cycle assessment of output from wood waste.- Concern on wood waste utilization: environment and economic evaluation.- The development and performances of wood waste briquettes in pyrolysis reactor system.- Biochar from wood wastes: properties and recent advances applications.- Wood waste as a renewable energy sources: sustainable ethanol production.- From wood waste to bio sorbent: adsorption characteristics and mechanisms.- Experimental and analysis of composite material based on wood waste.- Present scenario and future scope the used of wood waste in wood plastic composite.- Viability of building materials made of wood waste - sustainability and its performances.- Building material in circular economy: the suitability of wood waste in bio concrete development.- Employment of wood waste in agriculture: recent trends and advancement.- Potential used of residual sawdust - aversatile, inexpensive and readily available bio-waste.- Potential used of residual wood bark - chemical compositions and its potential used.- Potential used of residual wood shavings - an economic sustainable production.- Potential used of residual peeler core - scrutiny of small-log processing.

Siti Noorbaini Sarmin is Senior Lecturer at Malaysia's Universiti Teknologi MARA Pahang. She was awarded a postdoctoral scholarship from the Malaysian Ministry of Higher Education from 2021 to 2022 at INTROP, Universiti Putra Malaysia. She received her B.Tech. in Bioresources, Paper, and Coating from Universiti Sains Malaysia in 2007, her M.Sc. from the same university in 2009, and her Doctor of Natural Sciences from the University of Hamburg in Germany in 2017. Natural fiber composites, conventional wood composites, timber trade management, and wood sciences are among her research interests. She has produced or co-authored over 50 publications in international journals, book chapters, and conference proceedings/seminars to date. She currently holds many national research grants for related studies.
Dr. Mohammad Jawaid is currently working as Senior Fellow (Professor) at Biocomposite Technology Laboratory, Institute of Tropical Forestry and Forest Products (INTROP), Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia, and also has been Visiting Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, since June 2013. He has more than 20 years of experience in teaching, research, and industries. His area of research interests includes hybrid composites, lignocellulosic-reinforced/filled polymer composites, advanced materials: graphene/nanoclay/fire retardant, modification and treatment of lignocellulosic fibers and solid wood, biopolymers and biopolymers for packaging applications, nano-composites and nanocellulose fibers, and polymer blends. So far, he has published 40books, 65 book chapters, more than 350 peer-reviewed international journal papers, and several published review papers under top 25 hot articles in science direct during 2013-2019. He also obtained 2 patents and 6 copyrights. H-index and citation in Scopus are 52 and 12521, and in Google Scholar, H-index and citation are 61 and