Accepted Manuscript The effect of microwave drying pretreatment on dry torrefaction of agricultural biomasses Mahmoud Amer, Mohamed Nour, Mahmoud Ahmed, Shinichi Ookawara, Sameh Nada, Ahmed Elwardany PII: S0960-8524(19)30630-3 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2019.121400 Article Number: 121400 Reference: BITE 121400 To appear in: Bioresource Technology Received Date: 23 March 2019 Revised Date: 28 April 2019 Accepted Date: 29 April 2019 Please cite this article as: Amer, M., Nour, M., Ahmed, M., Ookawara, S., Nada, S., Elwardany, A., The effect of microwave drying pretreatment on dry torrefaction of agricultural biomasses, Bioresource Technology (2019), doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2019.121400 This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof before it is published in its final form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain.