Waste Management and Bio-Energy Production
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "A4: Bio-Energy".
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The requirements of sustainable and appropriate waste management are becoming an international challenge and a priority for the global community. Although the waste management sector is advanced, efficient, innovative, and economically viable technologies are needed. The priority is to save energy and care for the protection of the natural environment. The solutions sought should be in line with the sustainable development, bioeconomy, circular economy, material and energy recycling, support renewable energy technologies and reduce greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere due to the combustion of fossil fuels. An important research field is therefore the bio-energy production.
Bioenergy is one of many diverse resources available to help meet our demand for energy. It is a form of renewable energy that is derived from recently living organic materials known as biomass, which can be used to produce transportation fuels, heat, electricity, and products. More specifically, the feedstocks for bioenergy production include the waste streams from food processing industries, forestry and agricultural sectors, pulp and paper mills and many others, which turns waste into valuable energy and helps the transition toward a circular and sustainable economy.
This Special Issue aims to present and disseminate the latest achievements related to theoretical assumptions, results of scientific and implementation research, design, modelling and optimization of technological systems, as well as control and monitoring of solutions related to sustainable Bio-Energy Production. Therefore, this Special Issue will focus on current biomass pretreatment methods and technologies for energy recovery, the current status and technologies for obtaining biofuels from biomass, including pyrolysis products; pellets, briquettes and tablets, biogas, biohydrogen, biodiesel, bioethanol, biochitan and syngas, biorefineries, the modeling and optimization of the technologies for energy recovery from biomass and also techno-economic analysis (TEA) and life cycle assessment (LCA) for converting biomass and organic waste into bioenergy.
We invite you to publish original scientific contributions and review papers summarizing the achievements to date in this research field and indicate the strengths and weaknesses of the available technologies. The critical analysis of this will allow us to indicate directions for further development.
Dr. Kyriaki Kiskira
Dr. Konstantinos Kalkanis
Prof. Dr. Constantinos S. Psomopoulos
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- biomass
- biowaste
- agricultural residues
- biowaste valorization
- biofuels
- bioenergy potential
- energy recovery
- circular bioeconomy
- conversion technologies
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