Process-Based Valorization of Agro-Industrial Residues for Sustainable and Circular Systems
A special issue of Processes (ISSN 2227-9717). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Processes".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 September 2026 | Viewed by 1260
Editors
Interests: use and management of agricultural soils; organic horticulture; production of organic fertilizers; use and management of naturals waste; plant nutrition; soils microbiology
Interests: bioprocesses; solid-state culture; submerged culture; bioactive compounds; enzymes; extraction and characterization; plants and agro-industrial waste; functional foods
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Sustainability constitutes a fundamental pillar of development in the agricultural and forestry sectors. In these fields, the increasing generation of by-products derived from agricultural, livestock, forestry, and agro-industrial activities represents a significant environmental challenge, as improper management leads to negative impacts on soil, water, and the atmosphere, in addition to increasing greenhouse gas emissions. In this context, process engineering and the design of physical–chemical, biological, thermochemical, and biotechnological transformation technologies, together with process optimization and integration within biorefineries, offer viable alternatives for residue valorization in a circular economy framework. Furthermore, the incorporation of mathematical modeling, catalysis, separation operations, and control and automation, complemented by technical–economic performance assessment, enables the transformation of environmental problems into a high-value resources, promoting sustainable and economically feasible solutions.
This Special Issue, ‘Process-Based Valorization of Agro-Industrial Residues for Sustainable and Circular Systems’, seeks high-quality contributions focused on (but not limited to) recent advances in the following topics:
- Sustainability and development: agricultural residues as strategic resources
- Residue transformation and stabilization processes
- Bioprocesses and applied biotechnology
- Process evaluation and optimization (Life Cycle Assessment, efficiency, and energy)
- Scale-up, integration, and technology transfer
- Modeling, optimization, integration, and techno-economic/environmental assessment of residue valorization processes.
Dr. Ofelia Adriana Hernández-Rodríguez
Dr. Jose Juan Buenrostro Figueroa
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- agricultural residue valorization
- agroproductive sustainability
- climate change mitigation
- process engineering
- circular economy
- process modeling and optimization
- techno-economic and environmental assessment
- process integration
- biorefinery systems and separation processes
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