Biomass Conversion and Biofuels

Dear Colleagues,

With the intensification of the increasingly tense energy crisis and the strengthening of environmental concerns, biomass energy, as a renewable environmentally friendly energy source, can be used to achieve carbon dioxide neutrality and represents one of the rich and renewable clean energy alternative fossil resources of the future. Accordingly, it has increasingly become the focus of research, attracting growing attention from scholars to study its various aspects.

The concept of biomass includes all plants and microorganisms as well as the animals that feed on them in addition to the waste that is produced. Biomass is unique not only in its ability to store solar energy but also as a renewable source of carbon that can be converted into conventional solid, liquid, and gaseous fuels, which are referred to as biofuels. These biofuels can replace gasoline and diesel made from petroleum, which represents an important direction for the development and utilization of renewable energy.

This Special Issue will publish short communications, original papers, and review articles. Authors are encouraged to submit manuscripts which may describe outstanding experiment-, modeling-, or data-based studies and reviews of relevant engineering and applications. The specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Biofuel production—fermentation, thermochemical conversion, carbonization, acid- or base-catalyzed conversions, biofuel upgrading, etc.
• Biomass utilization—direct combustion, gasification, electricity production, chemical processes, and byproduct remediation, etc.
• Biofuel utilization and its environment impact—carbon cycle, the net energy efficiency of bioenergy systems, assessment of sustainability and biodiversity issues, etc.
• High value products from biomass—platform chemical production, preparation of carbon-based functional materials, etc.

Prof. Dr. Yang Guo
Dr. Yanhui Li
Guest Editors

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• biomass
• biofuel
• thermochemical conversion
• platform chemicals
• catalysis
• carbon-based material