Process Monitoring in Biorefineries
A special issue of Processes (ISSN 2227-9717). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental and Green Processes".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 November 2022) | Viewed by 245
Special Issue Editor
Interests: oligosaccharides; biomass pretreatments; biofuels; phenolics; algae biorefinery; bioactive compounds
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Biofuel and biocommody production within the biorefinery framework is becoming a reality around the globe due to its role in minimizing fossil fuel usage and contribution to self-sustainable societies. As such, further improvements in the acceptance of these technologies are expected to occur at both the societal and governmental levels, thus enabling further support for their implementation under the incoming constraints imposed by rising energy prices and related social, political and economic challenges.
This Special Issue aims to cover new methods for (online) monitoring of the conversion processes in biorefineries, ranging from biomass pre-treatment to fermentative, enzymatic and thermochemical processes. Efficient process monitoring and control are of paramount importance to achieving reproducible operation, maximizing feedstock utilization and realizing target products’ formation, both regarding yield and productivity. The realization of this goal depends on online monitoring instrumentation that can provide accurate and repeatable measurements and sustain stringent process conditions and/or prevent performance decline due to cell growth, solid deposition, etc.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- Application of online multiparameter flow cytometry for microbial processes monitoring;
- Correlations of exhaust gas measurements for process monitoring;
- Development of online measurements applied to biomass fractionation processes;
- Development of specific tools for the rapid detection and quantification of microbial and chemical contaminations;
- High‐throughput techniques for enzymatic hydrolysability testing;
- Online measurements by ATR‐FT-IR;
- Raman spectrometry for monitoring biorefinery conversions;
- Utilization of real-time Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) for microbial process monitoring.
Dr. Luís C. Duarte
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- automatic feedback control systems
- biochemical conversion
- biomass deconstruction
- biorefinery
- chemical pretreatment
- contaminant monitoring
- enzymatic hydrolysis
- process intensification
- process monitoring
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