Cold Plasma Assisted Biorefining and Chemical Processes
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "A4: Bio-Energy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 708
Special Issue Editors
Interests: biorefinery; biofuel processing; bioenergy and biomass; waste valorisation; process intensification and integration; circular economy
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Dear Colleagues,
We invite submissions to a Special Issue of the journal Energies on the topic of Cold Plasma-Assisted Biorefining, Renewable Energy, and Green Chemical Processes.
Cold plasma can activate molecules/atoms via an electric field rather than high temperature, which has the potential to overcome the shortages of conventional thermal chemistry and can provide an alternative to realizing chemical reaction processes at low temperatures and ambient pressure. Therefore, significant process intensification can be achieved and equipment and operation costs can be saved. Especially thermodynamically unfavourable reactions (such as greenhouse gas (CO2) conversion to CO and O2) can be realized in a DBD plasma reactor at low temperatures and ambient pressure. Cold plasma-assisted/promoted biorefining, renewable energy, and green chemical processes is an important and interesting research area, with significant impacts on renewable energy generation, biowaste conversion to energy and value-added chemicals, and the development of novel and green chemical processes, which has attracted worldwide attention. For the practical application of the technology, the major challenges are better understanding of plasma physics, plasma chemistry, design and application of catalysts, reaction engineering, energy efficiency, and product selectivity.
To address these challenges, this Special Issue will focus on: 1) the understanding of plasma chemistry of the reactions involved in biorefinery, biowaste conversion to fuels, and value-added chemicals; 2) the design, development, and application of novel catalysts; 3) reactor design and process engineering scale-up; 4) improvement of energy efficiency; and 5) process intensification assisted by cold plasma.
This Special Issue would like to encourage original contributions regarding recent developments and ideas in plasma chemistry, plasma catalysis, reactor design and process engineering, greenhouse gas conversion to fuels and chemicals, biowaste to chemicals, biogas/pyrolysis gas clean technologies, bio-oil deoxygenation by cold plasma, and cold plasma catalysis. Potential topics include but are not limited to: the principle of cold plasma physics and its application, chemical kinetic modelling of cold plasma processing, novel catalysis, reactor design, and energy harvest.
Prof. Dr. Anh N. Phan
Dr Kui Zhang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Cold plasma
- Plasma catalysis
- Plasma chemical engineering
- low temperature and ambient pressure
- chemical kinetics
- modelling
- biorefinery
- biowaste to fuels and value-added chemicals
- process engineering
- biogas cleaning
- gasification/pyrolysis
- deoxygenation of bio-oil
- process intensification
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