Converting and Recycling of Agroforestry Residues
A special issue of Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472). This special issue belongs to the section "Ecosystem, Environment and Climate Change in Agriculture".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 February 2025 | Viewed by 153
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Interests: soil; biowaste; biochar; hydrochar; organic pollutants; dissolved organic matter; solid-phase microextraction
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Interests: advanced oxidation technology; cold plasma-catalysis; ozonation-catalysis; photocatalysis
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Faced with hundreds of billions of tons of agroforestry residues produced annually around the world, waste-to-resources is a great biowaste management strategy allowing this biowaste to enter a new lifecycle, helping achieve green and sustainable development in agriculture and forestry. Agroforestry residues can be converted into organic fertilizers and plastics, animal feed, energy, edible mushroom substrates, and chemical raw materials, attracting much attention in the current carbon age. However, the process of converting agroforestry residues into resources presents some challenges such as a low conversion efficiency, high costs, secondary environmental pollution, poor product performance, unclear conversion processes and mechanisms, and difficult precise regulation, which urgently need to be addressed.
This Special Issue focuses on the novel separation and conversion methods, detailed conversion processes and mechanisms, the application of converted products (such as hydrochar, artificial humic acids, biodiesel, and biopesticides), the economic analysis of recycling technologies, and the life cycle assessment of waste-to-resources for agroforestry residues. This issue will include interdisciplinary studies embracing agriculture in the biology, chemistry, and engineering fields. Research articles will cover a broad range of biowaste, such as straw, sawdust, biogas residues, feces, and other biowaste from agriculture and forestry. All types of articles, such as original research, opinions, and reviews are welcome.
Dr. Hu Cheng
Dr. He Guo
Prof. Dr. Jiangang Han
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- agroforestry residues
- pyrolysis
- hydrolysis
- fermentation
- carbon sequestration
- biomass conversion
- biomaterial
- cellulose
- lignin
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