Platform Chemicals and Novel Materials from Biomass
A special issue of Processes (ISSN 2227-9717). This special issue belongs to the section "Biological Processes and Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 March 2025) | Viewed by 6528
Special Issue Editors
Interests: glycerol; biodiesel; valorization; catalysts; carbonates; ketals; monomers; ethers; esters; lactic acid; hydrogen; acrolein; acrilonitrile; acrylic acid; glycidol; diols; refining; oxidation; dehydration
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Interests: heterogeneous biocatalysts; enzyme stabilization; flow microreactor; process intensification
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The growing need for material and energy resources is coupled with increasingly complex access to traditional fossil resources—oil, gas and coal—for geopolitical, economic and technological reasons. In this scenario, the possibility arises of developing new processes and products based on existing knowledge to transform the aforementioned fossil resources, applying such knowledge to a type of material and energy resource that is renewable by its very nature: biomass. Emerging processes, resources, reaction intermediates and final products based on biomass are building the so-called biorefineries. The ultimate aim of this development is to first supplement and then replace fuels, solvents, chemicals and materials now produced from fossil resources.
The current situation of global economic growth, with a significant number of extraordinarily populated emerging countries, coupled with environmental degradation and the finite nature of mineral and fossil resources, may find a solution, at least partially, in the use of resources created by living beings through photosynthesis and a wide range of metabolic transformations: biomass. At the same time, the knowledge acquired during the 20th century in the transformation of fossil and biomass resources (food, paper and cellulose) is the cognitive basis for the creation of the biorefinery concept and the underlying technologies. This Special Issue focuses on the final, transformative part of these biomass resources into chemicals and materials that are to supplement, first and foremost, and ultimately replace those coming from fossil resources. This transformation is based on heat-driven and catalytic/biocatalytic processes.
Prof. Dr. Miguel Ladero Galán
Dr. Juan M. Bolivar
Guest Editors
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