Research on Biomass Energy and Resource Utilization Technology
A special issue of Processes (ISSN 2227-9717). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental and Green Processes".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 June 2025 | Viewed by 107
Special Issue Editors
Interests: sustainable energy conversion processes; new technologies for sustainable biofuel production; chemical separation processes; biomass for energy generation; biomass transformation processes to obtain energy; evaluation of biomass pretreatments; the use of biomass components; modeling and simulation of chemical process; valorization of agricultural wastes
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The biomass pretreatment processes employed to prepare a sample for conversion and valorization processes improve energy consumption options and allow us to define methods for other products. The valorization of biomass waste is an option for generating clean energy and enables us to produce platform chemical compounds which many commercial products are derived from, and it also ensures the sustainability of the processes while preserving the environment. Process engineering gives us the conditions to ensure the production of renewable energy based on the use of agro-industrial waste through sustainable systems. Advances in energy systems focus on industrial processes in refineries, biorefineries and industrial-scale chemical plants. The technologies involved can vary from traditional systems that include natural gas, oil, and transportation fuels; biofuels; synthetic and alternative fuels such as alcohols, ethers, methyl esters of fatty acids; nuclear energy; fuel cells; renewable energies such as wind and solar; and energy storage technologies. Process evaluation is an important design component through modeling and simulation that facilitates the incorporation and details of unit operations for the scaling and development of processes, and it is one of the basic phases in the design of biomass transformation processes.
This Special Issue on “Research on Biomass Energy and Resource Utilization Technology” will present research innovations through the techniques of modeling and simulating biomass transformation processes as an important component of energy systems analysis or cost-effective processes for obtaining platform molecules for synthesizing value-added chemicals. To maximize scientific contribution, authors contributing to this Special Issue will be invited to deposit their innovative process results in the open access repository for engineering researchers and/or to provide supplementary material. These may include process simulation files, computer code, spreadsheets, model files, etc.
The research areas may include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Development of models or simulations of process units for the transformation of biomass into energy products.
- Development of models or simulations of process systems for obtaining platform molecules.
- Design, analysis, control, optimization, operation, planning or scheduling of energy production processes using models or simulations, such as techno-economic analysis, energy/exergy analysis, environmental or life cycle analysis, value and supply chain analysis.
- Design of materials and operating conditions in continuous, semi-continuous, and continuous batch reactors.
Thanks for your participation in this Special Issue.
Prof. Dr. Carlos Alberto Guerrero-Fajardo
Prof. Dr. Fabio Emiro Sierra Vargas
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- valorization technologies
- processes simulation
- pretreatment design
- biorefinery
- biomass valorization
- energy processes
- chemical analysis
- software
- design
- process systems design
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