Gas Bioprocessing: A Tool for Sustainably Reducing GHG Emissions
A special issue of BioTech (ISSN 2673-6284). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Biotechnology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 January 2024) | Viewed by 387
Special Issue Editors
Interests: energy and the environment; techno-economic analysis; process Integration; intensification of multi-phase operations; aquaculture; desalination; wastewater reuse
Interests: process intensification; mixing; multiphase flows; CFD; mass transfer; reaction engineering; reactor design; population balance equations; mathematical modeling; CO2 capture; process optimization; process simulation and integration
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The process industry is critical in addressing societal energy, materials, food, and water needs. However, the high rates at which conventional technologies emit GHG emissions (CO2, CH4, and CO) render them unsustainable in the long term. Large-scale bioprocessing however holds the promise of overcoming such limitations and is already being used in a wide range of technologies varying from the production of single-cell protein, renewable fuels, speciality chemicals to wastewater treatment. For this transformation to materialize, innovative approaches and techniques are needed to overcome some of the inherent limitations associated with low gas solubility, large energy consumption, and significant capital requirements.
We are therefore launching a Special Issue of "BioTech" that aims to provide a forum for exchanging ideas and experiences that can facilitate achieving sustainable GHG emission reductions. To adequately address the problem, the editors are interested in novel R&D works that address current gas bioprocessing issues at varying scales. These may range from the microscale effect of enhancing microorganism effectiveness all the way up to the macro-scale concepts associated with process systems engineering. However, in each case, the authors are expected to delineate the impact of their study on improving GHG management.
We look forward to receiving your expression of interest, and a brief abstract before July 5th, 2023 to answer any questions and facilitate an orderly selection of potential reviewers of the contributions submitted. Although the full manuscripts must be submitted before January 15, 2024, authors are encouraged to submit their full manuscripts earlier to avoid overloading the system.
Sincerely,
Dr. Adel M. Al-Taweel
Dr. Fouad Azizi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- bio-valorization of GHG emissions
- microorganisms used for bioprocessing (Bacteria, Algae, Yeasts, & Fungi both natural and genetically modified)
- means for enhancing microorganism growth rates
- nutritional benefits of using microbial sources of protein
- bio-catalysis
- effective means for separating, recovering and concentrating bio-products from process streams
- energy-efficient high-rate bioreactors
- bioprocess intensification to achieve higher performance efficiencies
- waste minimization: cleaner production methodologies for approaching the circular economy
- using process integration to enhance resource utilization efficiency
- bio-refineries
- process system engineering (including process modeling)
- techno-economic and LCA evaluations of various relevant bioprocesses
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