Advanced Technologies for Fuel Production and Application

Dear Colleagues,

Around the world today, the industrial sector consumes more than half of the energy produced (~55%), and in doing so, it also produces significant harmful emissions that can have adverse effects on the environment and require expensive clean-up remedies. Within the industrial sector, chemical manufacturing processes consume the largest proportion of energy (12%). It is estimated that this energy consumption can be reduced by 20–40% with improvements to these chemical manufacturing processes. This demonstrates that there is a significant need to develop sustainable and energy-efficient processes aimed at synthesizing important chemicals at milder temperatures and pressures in order to improve lifecycle energy usage and reducing the environmental impact. In particular, new catalysts with high atomic efficiencies and selectivities will play a key role in achieving these reductions.

This Special Issue seeks to contribute to advanced fuel production technologies through enhanced scientific and multidisciplinary knowledge, thereby bringing into focus the changing energy landscape so as to meet technical, socioeconomic, and environmental goals, in addition to energy security. We therefore invite papers on innovative technical developments, reviews, case studies, papers from different disciplines that are relevant to catalyst development, characterization, and evaluation in areas including direct natural gas conversion (non-syngas), light hydrocarbon reforming (C₁–C₄), carbon dioxide ammonia synthesis, Fisher–Tropsch (F–T) synthesis, and coal gasification. Studies are encouraged that offer new types of catalysts, alternative conversion methods (microwave, plasma), molecular and atomic modeling, or system analysis studies that are relevant to the conversion of the mentioned hydrocarbon fuels.

Dr. Swarom Kanitkar
Dr. Dushyant Shekhawat
Dr. Daniel Haynes
Guest Editors

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• heterogeneous catalysis
• natural gas conversion
• hydrogen production
• biofuels
• Fischer–Tropsch reaction
• reforming of hydrocarbons (C1–C4)
• ammonia synthesis gas to liquid (GTL)
• coal gasification
• pyrolysis