Anaerobic Digestion Advances in Biomass and Waste Treatment
A special issue of Bioengineering (ISSN 2306-5354). This special issue belongs to the section "Biochemical Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2025 | Viewed by 1939
Special Issue Editors
Interests: anaerobic digestion; microbial fuel cell; forward osmosis; mathematical modeling and optimization; numerical simulation; waste management; sustainable aviation fuels; nanotechnology; biodegradable plastics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Because the world's energy resources are limited and the waste representing an environmental problem contains energy-rich compounds and nutrients, increasing attention is being paid to research into technologies for converting various waste to energy. Considering technological, economic, environmental and social aspects, anaerobic digestion (AD) is a promising technology to reduce a large amount of various types of waste and produce renewable energy and other valuable products. In this context, there is a need for improvements in the AD process in (i) biogas plants in order to produce high-quality biogas, liquid and solid digestate, as well as (ii) microbial fuel cells in order to increase the amount of produced electricity.
This Special Issue of Biochemical Engineering will focus on original research and comprehensive reviews, dealing with the experiments, numerical simulation and optimization of the AD process in biogas plants and microbial fuel cells by considering technological, economic, environmental and social aspects.
The topics of interest for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Various biomass and waste pre-treatment methods: mechanical, chemical, biological, etc.;
- Improvements in the AD process in biogas plants: experimental and numerical investigations, modeling of the AD process (mechanistically inspired models, empirical models, phenomenological models) and optimization of the AD process (deterministic and stochastic methods);
- Improvements in microbial fuel cell systems: manufacturing of various MFC systems (3D printing), experimental and numerical investigations of various MFC systems (one chamber, two chambers, various types of electrodes and membranes), modeling of processes (AD process, etc.) in microbial fuel cells (mechanistically inspired models, empirical models, phenomenological models), optimization of microbial fuel cell systems (deterministic and stochastic methods);
- AD products (biogas, liquid digestate, solid digestate) treatments and utilization (nutrient recovery from digestate, heavy metal removal from digestate);
- Optimization of biogas plants and microbial fuel cells with respect to technical, economic, environmental and social aspects.
Dr. Tina Kegl
Prof. Dr. Breda Kegl
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- waste management
- biomass and waste pre-treatments
- anaerobic digestion
- modeling and optimization
- biogas plants
- biogas production
- digestate treatment
- microbial fuel cells
- electricity production
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