Edgar A. Silveira

887 total citations · 1 hit paper
48 papers, 683 citations indexed

About

Edgar A. Silveira is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and Pollution. According to data from OpenAlex, Edgar A. Silveira has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 683 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 11 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and 8 papers in Pollution. Recurrent topics in Edgar A. Silveira's work include Thermochemical Biomass Conversion Processes (33 papers), Lignin and Wood Chemistry (14 papers) and Energy and Environment Impacts (8 papers). Edgar A. Silveira is often cited by papers focused on Thermochemical Biomass Conversion Processes (33 papers), Lignin and Wood Chemistry (14 papers) and Energy and Environment Impacts (8 papers). Edgar A. Silveira collaborates with scholars based in Brazil, France and Thailand. Edgar A. Silveira's co-authors include Patrick Rousset, Lucélia A. Macedo, Grace Ferreira Ghesti, Sandra M. Luz, Armando Caldeira-Pires, Mário Costa, Kévin Candelier, Thiago de Paula Protásio, Jean-Michel Commandré and Baptiste Colin and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Cleaner Production and International Journal of Hydrogen Energy.

In The Last Decade

Edgar A. Silveira

46 papers receiving 667 citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Advancing Biochar Applications: A Review of Production Processes, Analytical Methods, Decision Criteria, and Pathways for Scalability and Certification

2025 24 citations Paulo A. Z. Suarez, Edgar A. Silveira et al. Sustainability profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Edgar A. Silveira Brazil	19	571	135	113	104	66	48	683
Tharaka Rama Krishna C. Doddapaneni Estonia	13	540 0.9×	120 0.9×	76 0.7×	65 0.6×	39 0.6×	20	674
Xiaozhuang Zhuang China	10	635 1.1×	180 1.3×	81 0.7×	78 0.8×	28 0.4×	10	831
Chunbao Zhou China	16	486 0.9×	193 1.4×	186 1.6×	102 1.0×	31 0.5×	34	710
Sébastien Thiery France	14	621 1.1×	161 1.2×	51 0.5×	46 0.4×	52 0.8×	30	738
Carlos F. Valdés Colombia	14	616 1.1×	165 1.2×	47 0.4×	63 0.6×	36 0.5×	28	708
Suriyati Saleh Malaysia	11	453 0.8×	82 0.6×	72 0.6×	65 0.6×	26 0.4×	38	516
Idowu Adeyemi United Arab Emirates	10	358 0.6×	160 1.2×	120 1.1×	94 0.9×	52 0.8×	24	763
V. Doshi Malaysia	5	588 1.0×	125 0.9×	48 0.4×	96 0.9×	57 0.9×	6	739
Tapas C. Acharjee United States	5	778 1.4×	198 1.5×	43 0.4×	44 0.4×	53 0.8×	6	845
Dariusz Kardaś Poland	17	456 0.8×	166 1.2×	105 0.9×	62 0.6×	26 0.4×	75	716

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Edgar A. Silveira

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Alves, José Luiz Francisco, et al.. (2025). Assessment of wood residue blends from the amazon region for decentralized energy recovery and decarbonization: Combustion kinetics, thermodynamics and potential emissions. Biomass and Bioenergy. 197. 107827–107827. 6 indexed citations

Silveira, Edgar A., et al.. (2025). Optimizing catalytic hydrothermal carbonization of Eucalyptus grandis sawdust for enhanced biomass energy production: Statistical analysis and insights of sustainable carbon-neutral pathways. Energy. 317. 134647–134647. 7 indexed citations

Soares, Álvaro Augusto Vieira, Flávio Henrique Silveira Rabêlo, Sérgio Henrique Godinho Silva, et al.. (2025). Effects of Fertilization, Soil Texture, and Forking on the Wood Quality and Yield of Energy Plantations of Tachigali vulgaris in Amazonia. BioEnergy Research. 18(1). 2 indexed citations

Lima, Michael Douglas Roque, Ananias Francisco Dias Júnior, Lina Bufalino, et al.. (2025). Advancing circular economy in Amazonian forest management: A comparative study of the effects of wood waste segregation and traditional carbonization on charcoal properties, combustibility, and spontaneous combustion risk. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(3). 100152–100152.

Suarez, Paulo A. Z., et al.. (2025). Advancing Biochar Applications: A Review of Production Processes, Analytical Methods, Decision Criteria, and Pathways for Scalability and Certification. Sustainability. 17(6). 2685–2685. 24 indexed citations breakdown →

Franco, Vicente Hernández, et al.. (2025). Exergy loss and optimization in Brazilian urban wastewater treatment: A study of the urban water-exergy-environment nexus. Journal of Cleaner Production. 519. 146057–146057.

Monteiro, Simone, et al.. (2025). Simulation and Thermodynamic Evaluation of Woody Biomass Waste Torrefaction. ACS Omega. 10(4). 3585–3597. 6 indexed citations

Silveira, Edgar A., et al.. (2025). Optimizing torrefaction of banana waste (peels and rachis) for sustainable biocoal production in rural communities. Biomass and Bioenergy. 196. 107726–107726. 5 indexed citations

Ghesti, Grace Ferreira, Lucélia A. Macedo, Sandra M. Luz, et al.. (2025). Effect of extractive removal and heating rates on pequi seed torrefaction: A detailed kinetic and predictive study for biofuel production. Energy. 321. 135521–135521. 2 indexed citations

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Monteiro, Simone, Lucélia A. Macedo, Thiago Oliveira Rodrigues, et al.. (2025). Multiparameter optimization of torrefaction for achieving carbon-negative biocoal: integrating quality parameters, thermodynamics, and environmental performance. Energy Conversion and Management. 341. 120055–120055. 2 indexed citations

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Protásio, Thiago de Paula, et al.. (2024). Waste-to-energy in the civil-construction sector toward the valuation of wood construction residues: Integration of torrefaction process. Fuel. 371. 132029–132029. 18 indexed citations

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Silveira, Edgar A., et al.. (2024). Effect of torrefaction severity on the energy recovery from amazonian wood residues for decentralized energy conversion systems. Biomass and Bioenergy. 193. 107515–107515. 11 indexed citations

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Lima, Michael Douglas Roque, Lina Bufalino, Paulo Ricardo Gherardi Hein, et al.. (2024). Exploring the effects of slow pyrolysis temperature and species on the quality of charcoal from Amazonian woody wastes. Renewable Energy. 240. 122257–122257. 4 indexed citations

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Leão, Rosineide Miranda, et al.. (2023). Processing Biodegradable Blends of Hemicellulose with Polyhydroxybutyrate and Poly (Lactic Acid). Materials Research. 26. 7 indexed citations

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Silveira, Edgar A., Lucélia A. Macedo, Grace Ferreira Ghesti, et al.. (2023). A hybrid optimization approach towards energy recovery from torrefied waste blends. Renewable Energy. 212. 151–165. 21 indexed citations

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Rodrigues, Marcela Charantola, Edgar A. Silveira, & Antônio Brasil. (2023). On the correlation between thermal imagery and fugitive CH4 emissions from MSW landfills. Waste Management. 166. 163–170. 2 indexed citations

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Rodrigues, Juliana Petrocchi, et al.. (2022). Waste-to-hydrogen via CO2/steam-enhanced gasification of spent coffee ground. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4. 100082–100082. 13 indexed citations

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Silveira, Edgar A., et al.. (2021). HYBRIDIZATION OF ENERGY SOURCES AS AN ENERGY ALTERNATIVE. 1 indexed citations

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Silveira, Edgar A., Lucélia A. Macedo, Kévin Candelier, Patrick Rousset, & Jean-Michel Commandré. (2021). Assessment of catalytic torrefaction promoted by biomass potassium impregnation through performance indexes. Fuel. 304. 121353–121353. 22 indexed citations

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Silveira, Edgar A., et al.. (2017). Coupling of an acoustic emissions system to a laboratory torrefaction reactor. Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis. 129. 29–36. 13 indexed citations

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