Recent Advances in Anaerobic-Digestion-Based Biorefinery
A special issue of Fermentation (ISSN 2311-5637). This special issue belongs to the section "Industrial Fermentation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2026 | Viewed by 78
Special Issue Editor
Interests: environmental biophysics; bioenergy; electron transfer; water-mediated proton transfer; organic wastes; sewage sludge
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Anaerobic digestion is a negative-carbon method that could contribute to achieving global sustainable development goals, as it can reduce pollution while recycling energy and high-value-added products (e.g., lactic acid, volatile fatty acids, and biostimulants). However, the physicochemical properties of different substrates significantly affect their anaerobic digestion performance. For example, anaerobic digestion of wastewater has undergone obvious progress and is more efficient than that of organic solid wastes, which makes the universal application of anaerobic digestion challenging. In particular, its long reaction period, low methane yield, low organic degradation rate, poor stability and undesirable byproducts greatly limit the applicability of anaerobic digestion to organic solid wastes. The general understanding of anaerobic digestion in solid-state (e.g., organic solid wastes) and liquid-state (e.g., wastewater) substrates needs to be further improved.
This Special Issue aims to collect high-quality papers in all fields of anaerobic digestion, including that of organic solid wastes and wastewater. We encourage researchers from related fields to contribute review and research papers highlighting the advances in anaerobic digestion research.
Dr. Ying Xu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- anaerobic fermentation
- biohydrogen
- methane production
- organic wastes
- microbial metabolism
- microbiomics analysis
- high-value-added products
- anaerobic biotransformation
- biotechnology
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