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Sustainable Production of Renewable Bioenergy

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 1553

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Abu Yousuf

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1. Department of Chemical Engineering & Polymer Science Building, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh
2. School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, USA
Interests: renewable bioenergy (biodiesel, biogas, bioethanol, bioh2) biorefinery; bioremediation; gasification; bioelectrolysis
Prof. Dr. Domenico Pirozzi

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Department of Chemical, Materials and Production Engineering, Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”, Naples, Italy
Interests: enzymatic and fermentative bioreactors; advanced catalysts
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Bioenergy is a major player in the renewable energy sector, with many associated risks and advantages for people, development, natural systems, and climate change. Consequently, the sustainability of bioenergy production is a key concern and requires an accurate evaluation of the balancing act between the risks and the benefits. This evaluation encompasses many more challenges that are currently unaddressed by legislation, which prioritizes land, carbon, and biodiversity.

A useful method for identifying the main risks and rewards is sustainability mapping, which aims to reduce risks and maximize benefits. Bioenergy has an innate connection to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and should be used to promote sustainable development.

This Special Issue aims to fully understand the sustainability issues relevant to any bioenergy project, to measure where the trade-offs and challenges are, and to identify which issues are most important for determining overall sustainability.

Original research articles and reviews are welcome. Potential topics may include (but are not limited to):

  • Sustainability criteria for bioenergy;
  • Bioenergy sustainability regulations;
  • Bioenergy production pathways;
  • Biodiesel;
  • Biogas;
  • Bioethanol;
  • Bio-H2;
  • Biobutanol;
  • Bioenergy sustainability assessment framework;
  • Bioenergy sustainability—employment opportunities;
  • Bioeconomy sustainability—development;
  • Bioenergy sustainability—natural systems and climate change;
  • Environmental sustainability and bioenergy issues;
  • Bioenergy sustainability—emissions and land;
  • Bioenergy and food security;
  • Future of biomass and bioenergy deployment;
  • Biomass and bioenergy sustainability frameworks and certification;
  • Socio-economic impacts of bioenergy;
  • Jobs exploration in biofuel industry;
  • Transportation networks and bioenergy plant locations;
  • Biomass to biofuel supply chain analysis;
  • Carbon capture.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Prof. Dr. Abu Yousuf
Prof. Dr. Domenico Pirozzi
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • bioenergy
  • sustainable production pathways
  • emission and carbon footprint
  • sustainability frameworks and certification
  • bioeconomy
  • food vs. fuel
  • climate change
  • biomass to biofuel supply chain

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A Review of Trade-Offs in Low ILUC-Risk Certification for Biofuels—Towards an Integrated Assessment Framework
by Beike Sumfleth, Stefan Majer and Daniela Thrän
Sustainability 2023, 15(23), 16303; https://doi.org/10.3390/su152316303 - 25 Nov 2023
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Indirect land use change (ILUC) is considered a significant challenge, resulting from an increasing demand for biomass and bioenergy. On a political level sustainability certification of biomass-derived products is discussed as one potential instrument to manage the risk of ILUC. However, extending existing [...] Read more.
Indirect land use change (ILUC) is considered a significant challenge, resulting from an increasing demand for biomass and bioenergy. On a political level sustainability certification of biomass-derived products is discussed as one potential instrument to manage the risk of ILUC. However, extending existing schemes towards a credible and reliable certification approach to account for ILUC-risks is still an open challenge. To develop such a certification instrument, so-called “additionality practices” are gaining relevance. Such practices include measures that an individual producer can adopt to provide an amount of biomass in addition to the business-as-usual feedstock production. This applies in particular to the certification of low ILUC-risk biofuels through voluntary certification schemes recognised by the European Commission. To date, however, no studies have been conducted that examine how such schemes account for potential trade-offs that may arise from the use of additionality practices. In preparation of an integrated assessment framework for low ILUC-risk certification, this study presents a gap analysis that examines whether such trade-offs are considered already in existing sustainability certification schemes for biofuels. In this way, we have found trade-offs that are preferentially addressed by the schemes, e.g., biodiversity loss, on the one hand, and considerable gaps for certain trade-offs, e.g., resource depletion, on the other. In addition, we identified biomass cultivation on unused land as the most promising additionality practice. Most schemes already have certification instruments in place to verify the large number of trade-offs that could be identified as preferentially addressed for this additionality practice. Moreover, only a few new criteria and indicators need to be developed for the small number of gaps found for biomass cultivation on unused land. Finally, this paper recommends future work to verify the scientific evidence of existing certification instruments for the trade-offs addressed and to develop assessment approaches for the identified gaps. Full article
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