Environmental Biotechnology for Green Energy

Dear Colleagues,

The serious environmental impacts associated with human activities and the progressive depletion of fossil fuel resources are seriously affecting sustainable development; therefore, in the absence of global political strategies for a change from this course and effective technological therapies, the futures of the next generations seem at risk. The annual amount of waste that is produced globally by various industrial segments and by normal human activities is huge, and often, treatment of this waste is either not carried out or carried out not appropriately. When this happens, its energy value is often overlooked, forgetting that waste is a valuable alternative energy resource. Therefore, technologies capable of combining environmental and energy aspects should be further developed.

The purpose of this Special Issue of the international journal Energies (IF = 2.072) is to provide an overview of the current technologies for the environmental and energetic valorization of renewable resources, including the treatments of different types of waste and by-products (biomass of various kinds, industrial wastes, urban solid wastes and agro-industrial wastes, etc.), in addition to the possible recycling of resources and/or energy recovery. In addition, technologies devoted to the solution of energy problems and new strategies that could reduce the impact on the environment are of particular interest, such as, but not limited to, a) gas to power technologies, i.e., highly efficient and environmentally friendly energy production through fuel cells, b) power to gas technologies, i.e., the production of hydrogen or other fuels through electrolytic cells, c) reduction of carbon dioxide emissions through microalgae or systems in which the two previous technological categories are combined with traditional systems and/or renewable sources, d) traditional waste treatments, including biogas production, soil remediation, gasification, and pyrolysis, and e) new biorefinery approaches.

Aspirant authors are invited to submit their work to this Special Issue, whether this work is an original paper, in the form of a scientific article, review, or communication; we look forward to receiving your valuable contribution.

Prof. Dr. Attilio Converti
Guest Editor

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