Advances in Carbon Capture Technologies in Thermochemical Conversion of Biomass
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "I3: Energy Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2025) | Viewed by 7067
Special Issue Editors
Interests: biomass; combustion; gasification; fluidization; carbon capture; chemical looping
Interests: biomass thermochemical conversion; catalysis; renewable energy
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Dear Colleagues,
Lignocellulosic biomass is one of the world’s top three carbon sinks. Each year, more than 16 billion tons of CO2 are fixed by biomass. The thermochemical conversion of biomass generates heat, power, biochar, bio-oil, and other energy vectors, whilst biomass carbon can be freed and emitted back into the atmosphere. Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) captures CO2, which, in the end, is sequestrated permanently; thus, the biomass conversion entails negative carbon dioxide emissions. BECCS breaks through the natural carbon cycle and can make significant contributions to decarbonizing the economy. Globally, BECCS is estimated to contribute to up to 22 mega tons of negative CO2 emissions per annum. Since the 2000s, when the BECCS term was coined, the role of BECCS in the mitigation scenario has grown rapidly. Today, there are more than ten BECCS technologies actively under development and more new technologies are emerging; these technologies have shown and continued to bring about value in terms of decarbonization into biomass thermochemical conversions. This Special Issue focuses on BECCS in biomass thermochemical conversion processes and invites submissions focused on, but not limited to, reviews and original research papers; the topics of interest for this Special Issue are as follows:
- Preprocess carbon capture technologies (advanced gasification, steam methane reforming, auto-thermal reforming, partial oxidation, pyrolysis, etc.);
- High-temperature solid looping technologies, including chemical looping, calcium looping, etc.;
- Oxy-fuel technologies;
- Postprocess carbon capture, e.g., absorption/adsorption-based separation, membrane CO2 separation, and cryogenic separation technologies;
- Artificial intelligence (AI) in BECCUS;
- Carbon capture using nanotechnology;
- Biochar for carbon capture and removal as adsorbent or catalyst;
- Plasma technique-based biomass processing.
Dr. Daofeng Mei
Dr. Kang Kang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- carbon capture
- biomass
- chemical looping
- oxy-fuel
- membrane
- artificial intelligence
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