Catalytic Upgrading of Fermentation Derived Products
A special issue of Fermentation (ISSN 2311-5637). This special issue belongs to the section "Industrial Fermentation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2022) | Viewed by 2242
Special Issue Editor
Interests: industrial fermentation; bio-based product; lignocellulosic biomass; enzymatic hydrolysis; bioprocess development and scale-up; integrated biorefinery, food processing; near-infrared technology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Industrial fermentation is increasingly popular in food, chemical, and pharmaceutical production; as a consequence, the continuing development of fermentation technology is a valuable asset for reducing the dependence on chemicals and products derived from fossil fuels.
A broad range of fermentation derived products can be obtained in a cost-effective way, e.g., bioethanol or higher alcohols, short or medium chain fatty acids, biopolymers, biogas, bio-oils, and platform biochemicals. Fermentation derived-products can serve as alternative and sustainable feedstocks for a wide variety of biobased products. Further upgrading fermentation products via catalytic approaches is currently actively investigated to generate higher value-added products.
The goal of this Special Issue is to publish recent original innovative research findings, as well as review papers on the catalytic upgrading of fermentation-derived products, in which conversion routes involve the use of inorganic or organic, heterogeneous or homogeneous catalysts to achieve high selectivities to targeted higher value-added products. Critical catalysis advancements in novel catalyst development, catalyst composition and morphology analysis, catalyst stability, life cycle and technoeconomic assessment, synthesis mechanism, reaction condition, reactor design, process modeling and optimization, and product purification and recovery are within the domain of this Special Issue.
Dr. Youjie Xu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- fermentation technology
- bio-based products
- catalytic upgrading
- material synthesis
- catalyst characterization
- catalyst deactivation
- catalyst design
- LCA
- TCA