Lignocellulosic Biomass Pretreatment and Conversion Processing Technology to Produce Functional Carbon Products

Dear Colleagues,

Biomass has tremendous potential as a net-zero feedstock and the global annual generation of biomass waste is in the order of 140 Gt. To achieve the net-zero global emission by 2050, governments and companies worldwide are pledging to highly efficient utilization of biomass waste. Functional carbon products derived from biomass waste have promising application potentials in several fields including energy storage, catalysis, purification, metallurgy, and so on. More importantly, the biomass-derived carbon products fixed photosynthetic carbon. Once these carbon products are intended for long-term use, the carbon could serve as negative carbon to contribute to net negative emissions.

The scope of the Processes journal covers research in chemistry, biology, materials, and allied engineering fields. Thus, in this Special Issue, we invite articles focused on research regarding materials and allied engineering firms.

The special issue will focus on publishing the original research works related to the Lignocellulosic Biomass Pretreatment and Conversion Processing Technology to Produce Functional Carbon Products. Experimental research for high-quality carbon product fabrication, process modeling and assessment for system evaluation, and reviewing works for the summary of the state of art research are all welcome.

Topics of interest for this Special Issue include but are not limited to:

• Biomass-derived carbon for energy storage applications such as battery anodes and supercapacitors;
• Biomass-derived carbon for metallurgy applications;
• Biomass-derived carbon for catalysis and purification applications;
• Efficient biomass pretreatment/conversion technology for carbon production;
• Overall system analysis and evaluation of a biomass pretreatment/conversion technology with functional carbon as a major product or a coproduct.

Dr. Tong Han
Dr. Ritambhara Gond
Dr. Xincheng Lu
Dr. Francesco Zimbardi
Guest Editors

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