Volume II: Bioenergy and Biochar: Repurposing Waste to Sustainable Energy and Materials

Dear Colleagues,

We are glad to share the great success of our Special Issue “Bioenergy and Biochar: Repurposing Waste to Sustainable Energy and Materials” (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/energies/special_issues/Bioenergy_Biochar).

We now continue to launch the second volume of this Special Issue “Bioenergy and Biochar: Repurposing Waste to Sustainable Energy and Materials”.

All types of biomass and their waste comprised one of the pillars of the pre-industrial, pre-fossil fuel, agriculture-based economies of the past. Traditional practices of biomass waste management were applied, but not necessarily in a sophisticated and efficient way, and ranged from agricultural activities to food production, animal feed, and natural fiber separation as well as the processing of forest-wood. The modern bioeconomic sector, though, includes new circular economy energy and materials streams of added value products, such as gaseous, liquid, and solid biofuels; bioenergy generation routes; and biochar production; along with all the previously mentioned traditional bioeconomy -derived products.

The aim of this Special Issue is to include the latest bioenergy and biochar advancements and their incorporation to a bioeconomy in transition. This Special Issue focuses on the nature, properties, upgrading, and bioenergy generation processes of all types of biomass waste and production; and the characterization and application of biochars originating from biomass waste. Submitted manuscript may investigate either bioenergy issues or biochar, or both.

Overviews of international ongoing and collaborative results of laboratory- and field-scale research projects, technology transfer, and policy development in the field are also welcome. A transdisciplinary approach in order to examine, explore, and critically engage with issues, advancements, and barriers to attempted advancements are also encouraged.

Dr. Vasiliki Skoulou
Dr. Dimitrios Kalderis
Guest Editors

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