Bioenergy Production and the Valorization/Disposal of Byproducts/Coproducts from Bioenergy Production Systems

Dear Colleagues,

Biomass, such as lignocellulosic biomass (woods, grasses, crop residues, etc.) and protein-rich biomass or organic wastes (sewage sludge, algae, manure, food waste, etc.), is a renewable and sustainable carbon-neutral (or even carbon-negative) resource, with wide availability, a large amount, and low cost. Biomass can be used to produce bioenergy such as biodiesel, bio-oil, biochar, biogas, and syngas by pyrolysis, hydrothermal carbonization/carbonization; torrefaction; anaerobic digestion; fermentation, and other bio-/physico-chemical treatments. These bioenergy products are becoming increasingly important to replace fossil fuels and mitigate climate change. However, there are many bottlenecks during the collection and pretreatment of biomass, design of reactors and process integrations, catalyst deactivations and inovations, product engineering and separations, and byproducts/coproducts valorization/disposal. These issues are waiting to be solved to increase the economic and environmental feasibilities and promote the industrialization and commercialization of bioenergy production, achieving the effective utilization of biomass.

This Special Issue aims to collect recent outstanding experiment, modeling, or data-driven based studies and reviews in bioenergy production and the valorization/disposal of byproducts/coproducts from bioenergy production systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

(1) Enhanced production of bioenergy by novel pretreatment, effective catalyst, reactor innovation or process design and integrations, machine learning or other new strategies;

(2) Systematic characterization of bioenergy products and the application performance of bioenergy;

(3) Modelling reaction mechanisms during bioenergy production;

(4) Co-producing value-added products during bioenergy production;

(5) Characterization and valorization/disposal the byproducts/coproducts from bioenergy production systems;

(6) Life cycle assessment and technical and economic analyses of the bioenergy production systems.

Prof. Dr. Lijian Leng
Guest Editor

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• biomass biorefinery
• pyrolysis
• hydrothermal liquefaction/carbonization
• torrefaction
• anaerobic digestion
• fermentation
• biochar
• bio-oil
• aqueous phase coproducts
• by-product valorization
• process combination and integration