Integrated Biorefinery for Biofuels and Biochemicals
A special issue of Fermentation (ISSN 2311-5637). This special issue belongs to the section "Industrial Fermentation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2024) | Viewed by 1649
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The continuous depletion of non-renewable sources of energy and petrochemicals, as well as increased environmental issues, high expenses in a petroleum refinery due to the limited resources of crude oil, and dependence on other countries for import has led to the exploration of renewable resources necessary for the survival of society. To combat these issues, agricultural residues could utilized as an excellent resource of renewable energy, chemicals and synthetic polymers, due to their plentiful availability, cheaper cost, non-competitiveness with food or other essential resources, etc. Biomass-based refineries for renewable energy carriers and other value-added products is an outstanding choice from both an economical and environmental perspective. An economically and environmentally feasible “integrated biorefinery” is a strategy used to operate individual conversion routes of biomass to different products in an integrated manner to enhance their overall efficiencies. This is a sustainable approach for waste management along with the generation of renewable and cleaner fuels, chemicals, food, materials, bioplastics, etc. An integrated biorefinery is associated with the exploitation of various polymeric constituents of cell wall biomass, i.e., glucan, xylan and lignin for the conversion into biofuels and biochemicals in a sustainable and economically viable manner.
Dr. Sachin Kumar
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- lignocellulosic biomass
- algal biomass
- biofuels
- lignin valorization
- bioplastics, biofilms and biopolymers
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