Cohydrothermal carbonization of coal waste and food waste: fuel ...
1 Introduction Coal is one of the major fossil fuel sources of the present world. In 2011, coal contributed approximately 26% of the total 50 billion joules of energy demand [ 1, 2 ]. The use of coal is predicted to increase by % to provide energy for the billion world population by 2040 [ 3, 4 ].