Biomass Pretreatment and Characterization for Advanced Biofuels and Biochemicals Production
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "A4: Bio-Energy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 October 2025 | Viewed by 1390
Special Issue Editors
Interests: biomass conversion; biofuels; Fischer-Tropsch reaction; CO2 hydrogenation
Interests: electrocatalyst
Interests: catalytic fractionation of biomass; catalytic conversion of lignin
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
As the sole carbon-containing renewable resource globally, biomass has the potential to be converted into a variety of high-value fuels and fine chemicals. The biomass conversion holds significant strategic importance in addressing the depletion of fossil fuels and the escalating environmental challenges anticipated in the future. The production of biochemicals and biofuels plays a crucial role in facilitating the replacement of fossil resources, achieving "carbon neutrality", and promoting sustainable green development within the industry. In view of the complexity and recalcitrant of biomass structures, exploration of green and efficient pretreatment methods, conversion technologies and product characterization techniques and in-depth reaction mechanism studies can promote the development of research on renewable biomass to biochemicals and biofuels.
This Special Issue aims to present and disseminate the most recent advances related to the strategy, method, mechanism and characterization technology for biomass pretreatment and conversion to high-value chemicals and fuels.
Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Novel strategies for efficient biomass pretreatment and conversion using chemical, physio-, mechanical- photic-, electric–chemical, biological methods, etc.
- Advanced catalytic technologies for conversion of biomass into chemicals and fuels.
- Advanced technologies for hydrogen production from biomass.
- Co-conversion of biomass with other organic wastes.
- Advanced characterization methods for qualitative and quantitative analysis of complicated biochemicals and biofuels in biomass pretreatment and conversion.
Dr. Chengyan Wen
Dr. Jingcheng Wu
Dr. Yuting Zhu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- biomass pretreatment
- biomass conversion
- biochemicals
- biofuels
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