Advances in Bioenergy and Biofuel Conversion: Designs and Optimization
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "A4: Bio-Energy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 July 2025 | Viewed by 65
Special Issue Editors
Interests: biomass conversion; biofuels; hydrothermal technology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Being the sole carbon-containing renewable resource globally, biomass is commonly used as feedstock to be converted into a variety of high-value fuels. 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 sustainable bio-based energy 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 recalcitrance of biomass structure, 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 bioenergy and biofuels.
This Special Issue aims to present and disseminate the most recent advances related to strategy, method, mechanism, and characterization technology for biomass conversion to high-value energy and fuels.
Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Biomass and biological residues: energy crops, lignocellulosic components, residues/rests from agricultural production, forestry and plantations (palm, sugar, etc.), processing industries, and municipal sources (MSWs). Please note that research on these biomass or biological residue subjects must be linked directly to bioenergy generation.
- Bioenergy processes: fermentations, thermochemical conversions, liquid and gaseous fuels, and petrochemical substitutes. Papers on the use of biomass through innovative processes/technological novelty and/or consideration of feedstock/system sustainability (or unsustainability) are also welcomed.
- Novel strategies for efficient biomass conversion: chemical, physio-, mechanical, photic, electric-chemical, biological methods, etc. Novel and unique designs of catalysts in these processes are also encouraged.
Dr. Xiuzheng Zhuang
Prof. Dr. Xinghua Zhang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- biomass conversion
- biofuels
- bio-based materials or chemicals
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