Selected Papers from 31st European Biomass Conference and Exhibition (EUBCE 2023)
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "A4: Bio-Energy".
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Interests: biogas; bioenergy; bioliquids; heat and electricity; power; climate change; socio-economic impact
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
On June 5–8 2023 in Bologna, Italy, the 31st European Biomass Conference and Exhibition Conference (EUBCE) was held live and face-to-face for the first time following the severe disruption caused by Coronavirus in 2020, 2021, and 2022. We all enjoyed sharing the time together in the real world.
EUBCE is one of the world’s leading R&D conferences that is combined with an international exhibition. EUBCE represents the leading platform for the collection, exchange, and dissemination of scientific knowledge in the field of biomass and its utilization. This Special Issue of Energies will include presentations from the 31st EUBCE conference.
The 2023 conference program addressed the usual broad span of topics, including biomass production, biomass conversion to bioliquids and biofuels for heat and electricity, transport, and bio-based products, and it covered all aspects ranging from supply and logistics to conversion technologies, from the industrial application of research results to the impacts of biomass utilization on the environment, as well as market and trade and policy strategies, and last but not least, the role of biomass as a source in integrated energy systems.
In recent years, EUBCE also expanded its scope from biomass resources and conversion to include bioenergy and intermediate bioenergy carriers and their integration into the bioeconomy, the exploration of the role of agriculture in bioenergy production for energy and bioeconomy transition, and the improvement of citizen awareness and engagement in support of biomass technologies.
In addition, EUBCE further expanded the links between research achievements and the exploitation of innovations in scaled-up demonstration projects and the full industrialisation of biomass utilisation. The integration of technologies is a topic that presents many challenges, and this is typified in the rapid growth of interest in biorefineries and in the valorisation of all side products from biomass conversion processes and side streams that, in the past, may have been considered as wastes.
The topics to be covered in this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following areas:
- Biomass feedstocks;
- Agriculture;
- Forestry;
- Organic waste;
- Bioenergy;
- Energy carriers;
- Biofuels;
- Bio-based products;
- Biorefinery;
- Bioeconomy;
- Climate change;
- Sustainability;
- Impacts.
The submission of high-quality papers in the aforementioned areas is highly encouraged. Please note each paper should contain about 50% additional/new content compared to the contents of papers submitted for the EUBCE conference proceedings.
Dr. David Baxter
Prof. Dr. Solange I. Mussatto
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- biomass
- biomass production
- biomass resources
- biomass harvesting
- bioresidues
- biofertilizer
- land use
- land use change
- biowaste
- bioenergy
- bioheat
- CHP—combined heat and power
- biofuels
- advanced biofuels
- bioliquids
- sustainable aviation fuels (SAF)
- power to X
- power to gas
- biogas
- biomethane
- biochemicals
- biomaterials
- biorefinery
- bio-based products
- bioeconomy
- circular economy
- techno-economic analysis
- life cycle assessment
- global warming
- climate change
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