Bioenergy for Biofuels: Upgrading from Renewable Resources

Dear Colleagues,

In recent years, there is an urgent need to address the depletion of non-renewable fossil resources and their associated environmental issues with the use of fossil fuel-derived fuels. Alternatively, biomass and other organic waste materials could be promising future fuel sources. Therefore, the transformation of such materials into renewable and clean bioenergy and biofuels has attracted a great deal of attention. Even though substantial progress has been made in this field, significant challenges remain. This Special Issue is thus dedicated to focus on the research efforts regarding the technological development and advancement of clean biofuels and bioenergy production from biomass and organic waste. The relevant latest research findings including but not limited to modelling results, case studies, and critical reviews will be collected and disseminated through this Special Issue. Proposed themes include, but are not restricted to the following:

• Pretreatment approaches for the production of clean biofuels and bioenergy.
• Thermochemical and biological biomass conversions including pyrolysis, gasification, anaerobic digestion, fermentation, etc.
• The computational modelling of biomass conversion technologies.

The exploration of economic and environmental aspects of bioenergy and biofuel production routes. 

Dr. Yulin Hu
Dr. Kang Kang
Guest Editors

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