Recent Advances in Catalytic Conversion of Biomass
A special issue of Processes (ISSN 2227-9717). This special issue belongs to the section "Catalysis Enhanced Processes".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 September 2022) | Viewed by 6876
Special Issue Editor
2. N.E. Bauman Moscow State Technical University, 2nd Baumanskaya Street, 5/1, 105005 Moscow, Russia
Interests: sustainable chemistry; catalytic conversion of carbohydrates; renewable furanics; dynamic covalent chemistry; organocatalysis; self-healable materials
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The development of efficient approaches for the conversion of biomass into viable targeted products (such as biofuels, fine chemicals and materials) remains one of the most important and challenging tasks for modern chemical science and technology. The transition to a carbon-neutral economy based on renewable carbon sources will require great efforts to make the use of renewable (primarily plant-based or waste) biomass an economically viable alternative to using raw fossil materials. The direct utilization of biomass to produce energy and materials is ineffective, so catalytic and biocatalytic systems for the conversion of biomass components into biofuels and low-molecular-weight products have become very important in recent years. Much attention has been given to solvent-free or continuous-flow catalytic processes.
This Special Issue on “Recent Advances in Catalytic Conversion of Biomass” aims to cover the current trends in the catalytic or biocatalytic processing of renewable biomass into biofuels and high-value-added products for the needs of fine organic chemistry and material sciences. The key topics include but are not limited to:
- The catalytic or biocatalytic conversion of carbohydrates into platform chemicals;
- The chemistry of renewable furanics;
- The fractionation and/or depolymerization of lignin;
- The gasification of biomass;
- Waste-to-energy technologies;
- Continuous flow processes.
Dr. Konstantin I. Galkin
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- renewable resources
- plant biomass
- biorefining
- carbon-neutral economy
- biofuels
- biobased platform chemicals
- sustainable catalysis
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