Green and High-Value Applications of Biopolymers from Lignocellulosic Biomass
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 November 2023) | Viewed by 335
Special Issue Editors
Interests: mechanism analysis, process modeling and optimization; thermodynamic evaluation; technoeconomic and LCA analyses on pretreatment technologies and thermochemical conversions of lignocellulosic biomass and its organic components (cellulose, hemicellulose,lignin) as well as other organic solid wastes for high-value biofuels and bio-products
Interests: biomass utilization; catalyst design and preparation; including conversion biomass to high value chemicals; heterogeneous catalysis; materials chemistry; green chemistry
Interests: the development of novel ILs and catalystic systems for sustainable production of value-added materials and chemicals from biomass; the biomass pretreatment and the further utilization of lignin
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With the increasing concerns about environmental pollution, i.e., carbon dioxide emissions and so on, and the non-renewability of commonly used fossil-based resources, the developments of renewable resources are getting more and more attentions. Among the renewables, lignocellulosic biomass, as second generation biomass, has good potential and promising for producing environmentally friendly bio-based fuels, chemicals and materials due to its abundant available feedstock and near-zero emission of carbon emission as well as no competition with food land.
Nevertheless, utilization technologies and large-scale applications of lignocellulosic biomass have been developed and promoted. However, some issues related to high-efficiency and green and commercial utilization technologies related to their utilization processes still need to be further addressed. Based upon the above considerations, this Special Issue “Green and high-value applications of biopolymers from lignocellulosic biomass" cover a series of fundamental and application issues related to the conversion processes of cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin as well as their typical derivatives into green and high-value products including fuels, materials, and chemicals by thermochemical, catalytic, or other advanced technologies. This Special Issue aims to promote the further development of utilization technologies and large-scale applications of second-generation biomass, thereby providing green, low-carbon, sustainable and affordable bio-products. The detailed items in this Special Issue include but are not limited to:
- Advanced pretreatment technologies of lignocellulosic biomass.
- Green and high-efficiency conversion technologies of biomass-based polymers and their derivatives
- Reaction mechanism, process modeling, and their interactions of cellulose, hemicellulose, lignin during conversion processes.
- Comprehensive LCA and techno-economic evaluations for typical conversion processes.
- Optimal design and management of the whole supply chain involving the field-to-gate-to-products.
Dr. Youwang Huang
Dr. Haiyong Wang
Dr. Shaoqi Yang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- lignocellulosic biomass
- pretreatment
- thermochemical conversion
- catalytic conversion
- bio-products
- reaction mechanism
- processing modeling
- technology economic analysis
- LCA
- supply chain management
