Bioenergy, Green Chemistry and Biorefinery: Challenges and Perspectives on Circular Economy and Sustainability, 2nd Edition
A Special Issue of Processes (ISSN 2227-9717) belonging to the section "Environmental and Green Processes".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2027 | Viewed by 74
Editors
Interests: integrated use of biomass; development of multifunctional additives; production, characterization and performance evaluation of biofuels; thermal analysis; oxidative stability; development of bench-scale equipment; exergy analysis; renewable energy; sustainable development and green chemistry
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Interests: biomass/bioenergy; characterization of solid biofuels; energy materials; thermal analysis; exergy analysis; renewable energy; sustainable development; environmental chemistry; chemicals; kinetics; thermodynamics; heat transfer; gaseous emissions; atmospheric dispersion; CFD; artificial neural networks
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The first edition of this Special Issue, entitled “Bioenergy, Green Chemistry and Biorefinery: Challenges and Perspectives on Circular Economy and Sustainability”, collected ten papers that attracted more than 14000+ views. Due to the considerable interest in this topic, we propose a second edition of this Special Issue, entitled “Bioenergy, Green Chemistry and Biorefinery: Challenges and Perspectives on Circular Economy and Sustainability, 2nd Edition".
The transition to a sustainable and circular economy is a global phenomenon driven by climate change mitigation, resource efficiency, and the need for resilient industrial systems. Bioenergy, green chemistry, and biorefinery are central to this, offering ways to use renewable materials, reduce greenhouse gases, and replace fossil-based products with bio-based alternatives. These fields are increasingly interconnected, with advances in one catalyzing progress in others. Maintaining current sustainable growth requires new biofuels, biosolutions, and biomaterials. Promising areas include smart biorefineries, green catalysis, enzyme engineering, digital twins, life cycle assessments (LCA), LCA with techno-economic analysis (TEA), autonomous biorefineries combining digital twins and synthetic biology, and carbon-based materials. Therefore, for this 2nd edition of the Special Issue, we seek papers on new trends and processes in biofuels, biosolutions, and biomaterials. Topics include but are not limited to:
- Autonomous biorefineries blending digital twins and synthetic biology;
- Biological conversion of biomass and waste;
- Biomass fuels;
- Carbon-based materials;
- Cofiring biomass;
- Digital twins;
- Enzyme engineering;
- Green catalysis;
- Green chemistry;
- Life Cycle Assessments (LCA);
- LCA with techno-economic analysis (TEA);
- Smart biorefineries.
Prof. Dr. Maria Alexsandra de Sousa Rios
Prof. Dr. Glauber Cruz
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- circular economy
- sustainability
- green chemistry
- green catalytic processes
- process integration
- digital adoption
- biohybrid systems
- industry 4.0
- waste valorization
- carbon capture
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