Recent Advances in Biorefinery Approaches for Sustainable Development
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Engineering and Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 January 2024) | Viewed by 487
Special Issue Editors
Interests: techno-economic analysis; sustainability metrics and indicators; waste management and bioenergy systems
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Interests: bio-based circular economy; modeling and multi-objective optimization of biological and chemical processes; techno-economic analysis (TEA) and life cycle assessment (LCA)
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Biorefinery is a sustainable process that converts biomass into energy and bio-based products. In order to advance sustainable development, biorefinery approaches must include economic and environment aspects. Techno-economic and environmental analysis tools have been used to assess the sustainability of different biorefinery processes. Recent developments in artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques have provided new opportunities for biorefinery approaches to parameter optimization and enabled biofuel production prediction. The comprehensive analysis of biorefineries is similar to the life cycle assessment, which is a tool helping to ensure the sustainability of biorefineries. Sustainable biorefinery approaches contibute to establishing a stronger bioeconomy. Circular bioeconomy plays a major role in establishing a low-carbon economy, aiding in the attainment of the sustainable development goals.
This Special Issue covers the following areas:
- Application of AI and ML in biorefinery;
- System analysis and biorefiner;
- Biorefinery with carbon capture;
- Life cycle assessment;
- Policy analysis of biorefinery;
- Advancements in biorefinery;
- Low-carbon biorefinery and related areas.
We invite you to contribute articles or comprehensive reviews to this Special Issue.
Dr. Karthik Rajendran
Dr. Deepak Kumar
Dr. V.S. Vigneswaran
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sustainable biorefinery
- circular economy
- bioeconmomy
- biofuel
- bioenergy
- environmental sustainability
- life cycle analysis
