Biofuels and Bioenergy: New Advances and Challenges
A special issue of Fuels (ISSN 2673-3994).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 July 2025 | Viewed by 114
Special Issue Editor
2. Petroleum Institute, Democritus University of Thrace, Ag. Loukas, 65404 Kavala, Greece
3. Hephaestus Laboratory, Faculty of Sciences, Democritus University of Thrace, Ag. Loukas, 65404 Kavala, Greece
Interests: biodiesel production; biofuel production; biomass conversion; renewable energy technologies; energy engineering
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Global energy security, climate change concerns, and energy crises have motivated the exploration of alternative renewable sources of energy. Biomass is considered the only carbon-containing and plentiful renewable source of energy. The sustainable production of advanced liquid transportation and aviation biofuels using various second-generation feedstock could be a promising alternative. Catalysis is expected to be a key tool used for the chemical transformation of biomass substrates to advanced biofuels. The use of catalytic systems with transition element complexes can enhance the basic properties of the biofuel by producing a suitable mixture of fatty acid methyl esters, which cannot be produced naturally or via any transesterification process.
This Special Issue will approach advanced biofuels from its production stage until its property determination and upgrade. Expected outcomes include the following:
- Studying new biomass feedstocks;
- Examining various pathways for sustainable fuel production;
- Assessing waste-to-energy processes and plants;
- Applying innovative catalytic techniques for producing and upgrading biofuels;
- Using several chemical analysis techniques for advanced fuel characterization;
- Evaluating numerous advanced biofuels blends.
Dr. Nikolaos Kokkinos
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- biofuels
- sustainable aviation fuels
- fuel upgrade
- waste-to-energy
- industrial catalytic processes
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