Bioenergy and Forest-Based By-Products
A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907). This special issue belongs to the section "Forest Ecology and Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 May 2021) | Viewed by 9862
Special Issue Editors
Interests: biorefinery; valorization of wood and non-wood wastes; forest-based bioproducts; circular economy; sustainability; zero-waste; chromatography
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Interests: biorefineries; biomass fractionation and characterization; energetic crops; biomass & bioenergy; pulp and paper; wood chemistry; extractives; lignin
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Interests: biorefineries; non-wood products; natural products; biomass; tree growth
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Biomass is the basis for making renewable bioenergy, biofuels, and other bioproducts, and waste residues from harvesting (roots, trunks, branches, bark, needles, leaves and fruit), from manufacturing processes, or even from naturally killed trees can be used as sources.
There is a growing interest in using wood and non-wood biomass residues to obtain a wide range of renewable bioproducts, often in coproduction with bioenergy, chemicals, pharmaceuticals and nutraceuticals, renewable biomaterials, and other manufactured goods. Biomass is therefore an opportunity to generate added-value bioproducts from waste, always taking into consideration the sustainable conservation of ecosystems, avoiding the use of fossil fuels.
This Special Issue “Bioenergy and Forest-Based By-Products” aims to explore biomass-derived technologies and products, the possible new applications and commercial use of the new value-added “green” products, and the development of processes for forest regeneration improvement.
We are looking forward to informing the scientific and industrial communities of the cutting-edge research on the optimized processes for the development of added-value bioproducts and to identifying new markets for the emerging sustainable economy.
We invite you to publish your front-line results on how forest-based wastes can become efficient, sustainable, and economically viable feedstock for clean energy production, bioproducts development, and applications.
Dr. Joana P. A. Ferreira
Dr. Jorge Gominho
Dr. Isabel Miranda
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- bioenergy
- biorefinery
- wood and non-wood forest products
- forest subproducts valorization
- engineered forest-based products
- biomass valorization
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