Organic Waste Valorization Processes under High Pressure

Dear Colleagues,

Many processes under high pressures and medium-to-high temperatures may be very effective in converting organic waste into a final high value-added bioproduct, including biofuels, commodity chemicals, and biobased functional materials, especially due to the dramatic change in the properties of a number of compounds such as water, CO2, alcohols, etc. that can be used as solvents, reactants, and catalysts for separations, pretreatments, and reactions in the production processes.

Fossil resources can be increasingly replaced by renewable resources such as organic waste as sustainable feedstock that can be valorized in different ways by a number of processes involving different technologies.

Aimed at improving and increasing the knowledge of effective conversion for developing innovative organic waste conversion processes under high pressure, this Special Issue has been conceived as a collection of studies on state-of-the-art techniques and know-how for producing bioproducts from renewable resources using high pressure fluids. Discussion on topics such as recent advances, new methods, modeling, kinetics, troubleshooting, assessment, design, or promising prospect of new technological proposals to be used in an organic waste valorization process are also encouraged.

Experts or professionals are sincerely invited to contribute individual manuscripts to this Special Issue by submitting a review/research paper. Potential topics of interest for this SI are related to the keywords below mentioned but are not limited to them.

Prof. Dr. Francisco Javier Gutiérrez Ortiz
Guest Editor

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