Biomass for Sustainable Biofuels and Resilient Bioenergy Systems
A special issue of Fermentation (ISSN 2311-5637). This special issue belongs to the section "Industrial Fermentation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2022) | Viewed by 4138
Special Issue Editor
Interests: biofuels; biomass and bioenergy; food–energy–water nexus; combined heat and power systems; rural energy systems; sustainable energy
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Biomass feedstock holds great potential for developing sustainable and resilient energy systems at small- and large-scale operations. Bioenergy derived from biomass feedstock can contribute to sustainability and economic prosperity by supplying clean energy sources for domestic uses, reducing the dependence on non-renewable energy sources and foreign imports, promoting local employment, and revitalizing rural economies and communities.
While biomass is traditionally used as an energy feedstock with a long history, its global contribution towards the renewable energy portfolio is still insignificant. Acknowledging the potential superior benefits of biomass-derived sustainable energy supplies, many countries are now investing in and fostering bioenergy sector development. To achieve this development sustainably, many challenges related to the use of biomass for renewable energy generation should be addressed in a systematic manner. These include the cultivation of bioenergy crops, the pre-treatment of biomass feedstock and the post-treatment of biofuel products, the potential use of agricultural and forest wastes as bioenergy feedstock, understanding the uncertainties in biomass feedstock characteristics and process operations, the development of innovative and resource-efficient process chemistry design and technologies, the evaluation of the resiliency of biological systems, integration with other compatible renewable energy systems, case studies and cost-benefit analyses, and finally, environmental and life cycle impact assessments of bioenergy production.
This Special Issue welcomes, but is not limited to, submissions from the following areas:
- Feedstock characterization and supply chain optimization;
- Agricultural and forest residues and food waste utilization;
- Anaerobic digestion and codigestion of agricultural and wastewater solids;
- Pre- and post-treatment methods and processes;
- Energy crops;
- Combustion;
- Fermentation;
- Gasification;
- Co-firing;
- Biogas;
- Pyrolysis;
- Combined heat and power systems;
- Biomass for rural energy systems;
- Integrated biomass and waste to energy systems;
- Incineration;
- Thermochemical processes;
- Modeling, process development, and process optimization;
- Resiliency of biomass derived energy systems;
- Urban renewable and biomass energy systems.
Prof. Dr. Veera Gnaneswar Gude
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- biomass
- bioenergy
- food waste
- biofuels
- biomethane
- biogas
- renewable energy
- process optimization
- modeling
- supply chain optimization
- resiliency
- rural systems
