Catalytic Conversion of Biomass to Bioenergy

Dear Colleagues,

Taking into account the current challenges related to gradual environmental degradation, the replacement of traditional processes to obtain energy (many of them focused on petroleum-based industry) is becoming more and more important. Thus, processes that contribute to green chemistry, a circular economy, or sustainability are a clear future trend and an alternative for the abovementioned polluting processes. Considering this idea, the present Topic Collection (TC) is mainly devoted to the conversion of biomass to bioenergy through different methods where the role of catalysts is essential. Indeed, the competitiveness of these processes is considerably improved by the use of catalysts, which is an important step when translating successful laboratory-scale processes to the industrial or semi-industrial scale. Thus, in this context, for this TC, studies about the catalytic conversion of biomass to bioenergy are welcome, including interesting aspects such as catalytic performance, reusability, durability, characterization, etc. In other words, studies devoted to investigating the contribution of catalysts to the sustainable generation of energy are highly sought after.

If you would like to submit papers to this Topic Collection or have any questions, please contact the in-house editor, Mr. Ives Liu ([email protected]).

Dr. Sergio Nogales Delgado
Prof. Dr. Juan Félix González
Prof. Dr. Simona M. Coman
Collection Editors

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• biomass
• bioenergy
• bioproducts
• energy conversion
• sustainability
• heterogeneous catalysts