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Bioenergy Production from Biomass Feedstocks
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Bioenergy Production from Biomass Feedstocks

A special issue of Processes (ISSN 2227-9717). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental and Green Processes".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 March 2025) | Viewed by 859

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Dr. Ritambhara Gond

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Department of Chemistry-Ångström Laboratory, Uppsala University, Lägerhyddsvägen 1, Box 538, 75121 Uppsala, Sweden
Interests: material synthesis and characterization; multifunctional materials; bio-derived hard carbon for sodium-ion batteries; production processes; polyanionic phosphate-based cathodes; biomass into electrolytes for energy storage
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Dear Colleagues,

We need to explore for a number of alternatives to meet the world’s growing energy demand, and bio-derived criteria offer excellent sustainability for a green future. Nature has provided everything that humans could ever need. The most efficient, environmentally friendly, and sustainable way is to obtain energy from bio-waste, which is definitely a little bit challenging but not impossible.

Bioenergy production from biomass feedstocks involves biowaste-derived materials, biomass-accumulated waste into energy storage, the investigation of bio-derived materials for practical application, biomass conversion into lignin-based chemistry, bio-energy, and water purification from biowaste.

In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:

  • Hard carbon from biowaste;
  • Biomass-based green energy storage;
  • Bio-derived ecosystem;
  • Biofuels;
  • Pyrolysis;
  • Biochar;
  • Anaerobic digestion;
  • Bioenergy production.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Ritambhara Gond
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • material synthesis and characterization
  • multifunctional materials
  • bio-derived hard carbon for sodium-ion batteries
  • production processes
  • polyanionic phosphate-based cathodes
  • biomass into electrolytes for energy storage

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Biomass-Derived Syngas Chemical Looping Combustion Using Fluidizable Oxygen Carriers: A Review
by Hugo de Lasa and Nicolas Torres Brauer
Processes 2025, 13(4), 1053; https://doi.org/10.3390/pr13041053 - 1 Apr 2025
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This critical review evaluates chemical looping combustion using a syngas derived from gasified biomass (BMD Syngas). It is anticipated that establishing such a process will open new opportunities for CO2 sequestration and the use of highly concentrated CO2 in the manufacturing [...] Read more.
This critical review evaluates chemical looping combustion using a syngas derived from gasified biomass (BMD Syngas). It is anticipated that establishing such a process will open new opportunities for CO2 sequestration and the use of highly concentrated CO2 in the manufacturing and synthesis of fuels from entirely renewable feedstocks. This review focuses on the process conducted through using two interconnected fluidized bed units: a nickel oxide reduction unit (an endothermic Fuel Reactor) and a nickel oxidation unit (an exothermic Air Reactor). In this respect, a high-performance OC (HPOC) with Ni on a γ-Al2O3 fluidizable support (20wt% Ni, 1wt% Co, 5wt% La/γ-Al2O3) was developed at the CREC (Chemical Reactor Engineering Centre) of the University of Western Ontario, Canada. The HPOC was studied in a CREC Riser Simulator. The benefits of this mini-fluidized unit are that it can be operated at 2–40 s reaction times, 550–650 °C temperatures, 1.3–2.5 H2/CO ratios, and 0.5–1 biomass/syngas stoichiometric ratios, mimicking the conditions of industrial-scale CLC units. When using a syngas derived from biomass and the HPOC under these operating conditions, 90% CO, 92% H2, and 88% CH4 conversions, together with a 91% CO2 yield, were obtained. These results allowed the prediction of a 1.84–3.0 wt% (gO2 /gOC) oxygen transport capacity, with a 40–70% nickel oxide conversion. The experimental data acquired with the CREC Riser Simulator permitted the development of realistic kinetic models. The resulting kinetics were used in combination with Computational Particle Fluid Dynamics (CPFD) to demonstrate the operability of a large-scale industrial syngas CLC process in a downer fuel unit. In addition, these CPFD simulations were employed to corroborate that high CO2 yields are achievable in 12–15 m length downer fuel units. Full article
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