Advances in Hydrothermal Carbonization
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Chemical and Molecular Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 October 2021) | Viewed by 365
Special Issue Editors
Interests: hydrothermal processes; renewable energy; waste management; site remediation
Interests: hydrothermal processes; renewable energy; waste management; site remediation
Interests: biomass conversion; gasification; hydrothermal carbonization; biorefinery; renewable energy
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Dear Colleagues,
Studies in the steadily growing literature evidence that biomass hydrothermal carbonization has become a central process for developing sustainable waste-to-value conversions. The flexibility of HTC allows the integration of the reactor into more complex process schemes and treating high moisture and inherently variable substrates.
HTC could reduce the environmental impact of biomass exploitation, both as a pretreatment stage of the feedstocks destined for other conversions and as a downstream process for reducing effluents’ dangerousness. Valuable liquid-phase platform chemicals could be recovered, taking advantage of the relative mildness of hydrothermal carbonization conditions. New specialized uses of the solid hydrochar for high value-added, non-energy chains appear more frequently in the literature.
Based on this scenario, this Special Issue is open to submissions addressing a range of HTC topics of interest, including:
- Innovative HTC kinetic modeling and reaction engineering;
- Design, development, and optimization of integrated process schemes;
- Unconventional HTC substrates, especially for environmental applications;
- New reactor configurations;
- Catalyzed HTC;
- Recovery of HTC products for high value-added conversion chains;
- Advanced materials from hydrochars;
- State-of-the-art reviews, especially from senior researchers;
- Techno-economics and feasibility analyses;
- Specialized HTC lifecycle assessments;
- Demonstration activities.
Kind regards,
Prof. Alberto Gallifuoco
Dr. Luca Taglieri
Dr. Alessandro Antonio Papa
Guest Editors
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