Waste-to-Energy Processes Using Supercritical Fluids

Dear Colleagues,

The properties of a number of fluids change under supercritical conditions intensely so they can be used as solvents, reactants and catalysts for different waste-to-energy processes involving separations, pre-treatments and reactions of diverse types of waste leading to produce several ways of energy, including fuels.

Fossil resources can be increasingly replaced by renewable resources like waste biomass as sustainable feedstock that can be valorized to energy by processes involving different biofuels production or even energy recovery through power cycles, fuel cells, etc .

Aimed at developing innovative waste biomass conversion processes based on the use of supercritical fluids, this Special Issue has been conceived as a collection of studies on state-of-the-art techniques and expertise for producing energy and fuels. Discussion on topics such as recent advances, modelling, assessment, design or promising prospect of new technological proposals to be used in a waste-to-energy process are also encouraged.

Experts or professionals will be sincerely invited to contribute individual manuscript for this SI by submitting a review/research paper. Potential topics of interest for this SI are related, but not limited, to the keywords below.

Prof. Dr. Francisco Javier Gutiérrez Ortiz
Guest Editor

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