Current Trends in Pollutant Catalytic Conversion Process and Power Generation
A special issue of Processes (ISSN 2227-9717). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental and Green Processes".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 April 2026 | Viewed by 23
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Finding new trends in pollutant degradation process is crucial for environmental sustainability, which indirectly supports a sustainable energy future. Since identifying how specific enzymes or chemical species interact with pollutants allows for the development of advanced strategies to degrade specific contaminants more effectively. Technologies like photocatalytic fuel cells and microbial fuel cells can simultaneously break down pollutants and produce energy, aligning with green chemistry principles and supporting a shift away from energy-intensive, polluting processes. Catalysts based on highly porous materials enhance chemical reactions by increasing the surface area for active sites, providing shape selectivity through their pore structure, and enabling confinement and diffusion of reactants and products, which can further act as support for active sites, and as catalysts themselves.
This Special Issue on “Current Trends in Pollutant Catalytic Conversion Process and Power Generation” seeks highly qualified articles on advanced catalytic technologies, which can offer a dual benefit of environmental cleanup and sustainable power generation.
Topics include the following:
- Optimization of pollutant catalytic conversion process;
- Advanced processes on photocatalytic fuel cells and microbial fuel cells;
- Catalytic mechanism on conversion of chemical energy to electrical energy;
- Zeolites, metal–organic frameworks, mesoporous silicas, biochar, and carbon materials;
- Heterogeneous catalyst;
- Advanced water treatment process and energy capture.
Prof. Dr. Jayanthi Narayanan
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- pollutant degradation
- power production
- degration mechanism
- renewable energy
- photocataytic materials
- solar storable fuel cells
- photoelectrocatalytic systems
- heterogeneous catalyst
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