Sustainable Pathways in Chemical Process Engineering: Innovations, Optimization and Circular Strategies

Dear Colleagues,

Sustainability in chemical processes is a crucial challenge that requires innovative solutions to minimize environmental impact, enhance resource efficiency, and promote circular economy principles. As industries strive to meet increasingly stringent regulations and societal demands for greener production methods, process engineers play a fundamental role in designing, optimizing, and implementing sustainable chemical processes.

This Special Issue on sustainable pathways in chemical process engineering seeks to highlight cutting-edge research that advances the sustainability of chemical production, including energy-efficient designs, green chemistry approaches, waste valorization, carbon capture and utilization, and life cycle optimization. Biofuels and bioproducts play a key role in the transition to sustainable energy and materials, requiring advances in feedstock processing and conversion technologies and integration with existing energy and chemical systems. By integrating modeling, simulation, and data-driven approaches, researchers can develop robust frameworks to assess and improve the environmental, economic, and social impacts of chemical processes.

Authors contributing to this Special Issue are encouraged to share computational models, simulation data, or process optimization frameworks in open access repositories to enhance reproducibility and collaboration within the scientific community.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Green process design: Innovations in solvent selection, catalysis, and reaction engineering for sustainable chemical production.
• Biofuels and bioproducts: Process development for bioethanol, biodiesel, biohydrogen, and advanced biofuels.
• Waste minimization and valorization: Novel approaches for resource recovery and circular economy strategies.
• Carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS): Process innovations for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
• Sustainable energy integration: Renewable energy applications in chemical and biofuel manufacturing.
• Techno-economic and life cycle assessments: Quantitative evaluation of environmental and economic sustainability.
• Process modeling and optimization: Simulation-based approaches for improving efficiency and sustainability.

We look forward to receiving your contributions and advancing the conversation on sustainable chemical and biofuel process engineering.

Prof. Dr. Andres F. Suárez
Guest Editor

Dr. Laura Rosa Conde-Rivera
Guest Editor Assistant

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