Recent Trends in Biogenic Gas, Waste and Wastewater Fermentation
A special issue of Fermentation (ISSN 2311-5637). This special issue belongs to the section "Industrial Fermentation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2022) | Viewed by 51550
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Interests: development of bioprocesses for air; water and soil remediation
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Interests: bioremendiation
Interests: waste gas treatment; wastewater treatment; fermentation technology; biodegradation; bioconversion; biofuels; biorefinery
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, the optimization of bioprocesses for the removal of pollutants from industrial biogenic gas emissions, waste and wastewater has been the focus of intensive research. Recently developed technologies not only aim to remove such pollutants, but also to valorize them, whenever possible, through their bioconversion into useful added value products. In this domain of progressive research, lab-, pilot-, and demonstration-scale studies have been dealing with the fermentation of biogenic gases (e.g., CO2, CO, CH4), waste or wastewater to produce a range of biofuels and valuable products, based on the activity of pure or mixed cultures of native or recombinant an/aerobic bacteria, algae, or yeasts as biocatalysts. Waste can also be converted to syngas, which can subsequently be fermented as well. A broad range of bioproducts can be obtained, e.g., (bio)ethanol and higher alcohols, short and medium chain fatty acids, biopolymers, microbial oils and several other platform chemicals and products, to mention only a few examples. This environmentally friendly biorefinery approach addresses the need to build modern societies according to a circular economy concept and yields products of commercial interest. This Special Issue focusses on recent trends in this domain and will consider both research as well as review papers. For review papers, the authors should provide, in their cover letter, a list of recent publications (up to ten) of their own, highlighting their expertise in the field.
Dr. Eldon R. Rene
Prof. Dr. Maria Carmen Veiga
Prof. Dr. Christian Kennes
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Acetogenic bacteria
- Algae
- Biorefinery
- Biofuels
- Biogas
- Biopolymers
- Biomass
- Bioproducts
- Chain elongation
- FAME
- Greenhouse gases
- Lignocellulose
- Steel industry
- Syngas
- Synthetic biology
- Yeasts
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