Biofuel Value Chains: Innovations and Sustainability
A special issue of Fuels (ISSN 2673-3994).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2022) | Viewed by 16750
Special Issue Editors
Interests: biofuel value chains; sustainable supply chain management; supply chain network design optimization; circular economy-enabling supply chains; reverse logistics; zero-emission logistics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Biofuels have been one of the key solutions for decarbonizing transport, and they are expected to play an even more important role in the near future. However, the sustainability of biofuel production has received criticism, especially regarding the indirect land-use change (iLUC) and carbon emissions in the value chain. For this reason, innovations within the value chain that enhance the sustainability of biofuels are of critical importance to achieving transport decarbonization, especially in the heavy transport and aviation sectors.
This Special Issue invites contributions in reporting innovative approaches in biofuel value chains, as well as in improving the sustainability of biofuels. This may also involve novel biofuel types. The contributions may cover the whole value chain or a part of it, whether this is the biomass cultivation/sourcing, processing to biofuels or biofuel precursors, or upgrading, as well as the end-use of biofuels. Any organizational, technological, or supply/value chain innovations that can improve either the efficiency or the sustainability of biofuels are also highly welcome.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Innovative biofuel value chains;
- Innovative uses of biofuels;
- Innovative business models for biofuels;
- Innovative technologies for biofuels or biofuel precursors;
- Novel crops for biofuels;
- Biofuel production from contaminated biomass;
- Biofuel decontamination technologies;
- Techno-economic analyses for biofuel production;
- Value chain analysis;
- Supply chain design optimization;
- Innovative resource use for biomaterials;
- Life cycle analysis/life cycle costing;
- Environmental impact from biofuel production and use;
- Water–energy–food nexus in biofuels;
- Policies driving innovative value chains.
You may choose our Joint Special Issue in Energies.
Dr. Athanasios Rentizelas
Prof. Dr. Maria Founti
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- biofuels
- value chain
- supply chain
- sustainability
- environmental impact
- life cycle analysis
- conversion technologies
- decontamination technologies
- policy
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