Plant-Derived Biomass Catalytic and Biocatalytic Transformation into Biorefinery Products
A special issue of Catalysts (ISSN 2073-4344). This special issue belongs to the section "Biomass Catalysis".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 May 2025 | Viewed by 1006
Special Issue Editors
Interests: glycerol; biodiesel; valorization; catalysts; carbonates; ketals; monomers; ethers; esters; lactic acid; hydrogen; acrolein; acrilonitrile; acrylic acid; glycidol; diols; refining; oxidation; dehydration
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Interests: microbial transformation; bioelectrochemical systems; biomining; biopolymer; sugars; organic acids; solvents; biorefinery; biomaterial; circular economy
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The global trend of finding new sustainable material and energy resources and more efficient processes is the result of a booming world population with increasing needs and life expectancy. In this context, plant biomass again shows its enormous importance to humankind due to its abundance (147,000 million tons per year are created via photosynthesis), starring as an excellent raw material for obtaining products able to compete with and ultimately replace petrochemical industry materials and chemicals. Plant biomass is renewable and abundant, but its creation requires huge amounts of energy from the Sun and water, a key aspect in plant biomass sustainability.
The transformation of plant biomass into products of interest to humankind is evident in the agriculture, food, cosmetics, pharmacological, and chemical industries, the base of first- and second-generation biorefineries. While biomass for first-generation biorefineries is still at the forefront for biorefinery development, plant biomass suitable for second-generation biorefineries is more abundant and poses no threat to the food industry, instead presenting an opportunity for food valorization, waste, and loss. In this framework, thermal, catalytic, and biocatalytic processes are being designed and implemented to transform readily available and reactive biomass (first generation) and refractory, but abundant, plant biomass (second generation) into chemicals, materials, energy, food, and feed through holistic and ideally sustainable processing. This Special Issue is devoted to all these bio/catalytic processes, including, among other related subjects, bio/catalyst design and characterization, process creation, optimization, and/or implementation, kinetic and/or thermodynamical modelling, batch, fed-batch, and continuous or in-flow operation, bio/reactor design and operation, and technoeconomic analysis of processes based on plant biomass and focused on all products of interest.
Prof. Dr. Miguel Ladero Galán
Dr. Ernesto González
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- biorefinery
- plant
- photosynthesis
- platform chemical
- biocatalysis
- catalysis
- valorization
- pretreatment
- recalcitrant
- saccharification
- chemical
- monomer
- circularity
- sustainability
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