Bioethanol Production: Process, Technology and Sustainable Industrial Applications

Dear Colleagues,

The production of ethanol from renewable raw materials remains a topic of intense interest given the fragility of global supply chains and the need to shift away from petroleum-derived molecules. Beyond its role as a biofuel, ethanol is an important industrial chemical that serves a wide range of applications, including as an industrial feedstock, solvent, and in the preparation of pharmaceutical preparations. Despite a growing demand for ethanol, the fermentative production of bioethanol from complex biomass remains challenging due to costly and often complex pretreatment protocols. Designing better bioprocessing organisms, such as those better suited to simultaneous saccharification and fermentation or consolidated bioprocessing, through genetic modification remains an area of active investigation. Additionally, of interest is the production of ethanol and other alcohols from other materials such as macroalgae and though the valorization of waste streams as is the separation of ethanol from aqueous media using selective techniques such as pervaporation.

This Special Issue on “Bioethanol Production: Process, Technology and Sustainable Industrial Applications” seeks high quality works focusing on the latest work on processes related to the production of ethanol from sustainable raw materials.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

• Production of bioethanol from complex biomass or waste streams such as lignocellulosic or algal biomass
• Valorization of low-value waste streams for bioalcohol production
• Development of novel bioprocessing organisms for bioethanol production
• Techniques for the separation of ethanol from aqueous media

Dr. Sean Michael Scully
Prof. Dr. Johann Örlygsson
Guest Editors

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• ethanol
• waste valorization
• consolidated bioprocessing
• separation techniques
• consolidated bioprocessing
• simultanteous saccharification and fermentation