Anaerobic Digestion in the Bioeconomy—2nd Edition
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "A4: Bio-Energy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2025
Special Issue Editors
Interests: biogas; anaerobic digestion; bioeconomy; efficiency; pretreatment
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Interests: bioenergy; biogas process; trace elements for biogas; pretreatment of substrates; drying of digestate; efficiency of biogas processes; BMP test methods; energy crops; AD of organic waste; platform chemicals
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Due to various crises, material and energy costs are rising worldwide, while at the same time global warming continues to advance. For these reasons, the efficient use of regionally available materials is increasingly in the focus of public interest. Anaerobic digestion, e.g., in the form of biogas plants, can help to use organic residues as efficiently as possible in bioeconomy concepts.
Thereby, various organic residual materials accumulate in agriculture, as well as in industry or in the municipality as biowaste, which are often only composted or even combusted today. The use of these materials in anaerobic digestion or within a bioeconomy concept can significantly increase the economic efficiency of anaerobic digestion and resource efficiency and can also reduce the rate of CO2 emission significantly. The products of such bioeconomy concepts are very broadly diversified. Thus, both energetic use in the form of biogas (electricity, heat, or fuel) and material utilization in the form of fibers, bioplastics, or platform chemicals are conceivable. In the same way, the implementation of possible optimization ranges from targeted substrate preparation to optimization of the process conditions of anaerobic digestion to complete ecological and economic evaluation of entire bioeconomic models.
This Special Issue welcomes the submission of articles that deal with the mentioned topic both theoretically in modeling and practically in the form of laboratory or full-scale trials.
The products of such bioeconomy concepts are very broadly diversified. Thus, both the energetic use in the form of biogas (electricity, heat, or fuel) and the material utilization in the form of fibers, bioplastics, or platform chemicals are conceivable. Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Potential analysis of residual materials;
- Pre-treatment of the substrate;
- New concepts of anaerobic digestion;
- Design of anaerobic digestion;
- Process condition of anaerobic digestion;
- Ecological evaluation;
- Economic evaluation;
- New bioeconomic concepts including anaerobic digestion;
- Treatment and use of digestate;
- Evaluation of products of the bioeconomic model;
- Modelling of the processes.
Dr. Benedikt Hülsemann
Dr. Hans Oechsner
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- biogas production
- bioeconomic
- agricultural waste
- industrial waste
- anaerobic digestion
- fiber production
- platform chemicals
- efficiency
- renewable energy
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