Woody Biomass for Innovative Bioenergy and Bioproducts: Production and Processing Technologies
A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907). This special issue belongs to the section "Wood Science and Forest Products".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2025 | Viewed by 74
Special Issue Editors
Interests: biomass resource assessment; bioenergy; bioproducts; shrub management; size reduction
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The global demand for wood-based materials will grow as we move towards a circular bioeconomy since non-renewable products must be substituted. However, productive land, such as exploitable forests and cultivable areas capable of producing wood, is limited. Therefore, innovative wood-based products must be obtained under strict sustainability criteria including a low impact on biodiversity, land-use change, GHG emissions, and high energy efficiency. Therefore, efficient, new, innovative processes and technologies from cradle to grave, i.e., the whole product value chain, are very important in reaching high levels of substitution of non-renewable products such as wood-based goods. This Special Issue plans to give an overview of the most recent advances in the production of solid, liquid, and gaseous biofuels, as well as bioproducts from woody biomass.
Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:
- Sustainable production of woody biomass: novel plantations and innovative forest management.
- Harvesting and logistic technologies.
- Physical transformations: size reduction, drying, sorting, and densification.
- Distillation and extraction.
- Thermochemical transformations: pyrolysis, gasification, liquefaction, and hydrolysis.
- Biological transformations: pretreatments, enzymatic hydrolysis, and fermentation.
- Biofuel and bioproduct quality: characterization and standardization.
- Environmental and economic value chain assessment.
Dr. Luis Saúl Esteban
Dr. Irene Mediavilla
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- woody plantations
- agroforestry system
- silvicultural tasks
- value chain assessment
- solid biofuels
- wood-based products
- sustainability assessment
- quality analysis
