Sustainable Biomass Materials for Building and Engineering Applications
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2022) | Viewed by 212
Special Issue Editors
Interests: innovative technologies to improve the energy efficiency of energy-intensive wood industry and timber-based building sector; advanced carbon-neutral bioproducts, such as engineered wood products and mass timber panel products; numerical analysis of hydrothermal behavior of wood and engineered wood products; utilization of sustainable and renewable biomass as bioenergy resources
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Interests: climate change impacts on wood properties and performance of wooden construction materials; fiber properties, analysis, production and new products incl. nanocelluloses, foams, films, fabrics, composites, and others; modification and other means to enhance the properties of wood and wood-derived products by means of impregnation, coating, layering and other means; thermochemical valorization of food and forest industry residues and sidestreams
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The built sector is a significant component of energy demand and use worldwide. The total final energy consumption of the global buildings sector accounted for approximately 35% of the total energy consumption in 2020 [1]. Building materials with high embodied could contribute significantly to CO2 emissions. Moreover, the energy footprint in terms of CO2 emissions from operational energy accounted for about 28% of total global energy-related CO2 emissions. It was further increased up to 38% of the total CO2 emissions when the emissions from the building construction sector are counted [1]. To drive down energy consumption and CO2 emission, we promote the development of sustainable bio-based building materials and products with low embodied energy and decarbonize on-site electricity and thermal energy usage by using renewable and clean energy. Therefore, researchers and scholars need to introduce and utilize innovative technologies, new methods, and processes to develop novel sustainable bioproducts and evaluate their performance when applied in the building systems to meet zero-carbon and zero-energy requirements.
This Special Issue is seeking all types of papers, including original research, short reports or letters, reviews, perspective, case studies, etc., which study and report one or more of the following aspects:
- Novel sustainable bio-based materials and building products for building applications, including engineered wood and bamboo products, wood fiber insulation, mycelium-based insulation, hempcrete blocks, straw bales, and various materials made from biomass and recycled paper.
- New manufacturing processes of sustainable bio-based materials and building products.
- Innovative technologies of performance evaluation of the bio-based materials and products, such as structural, fire, thermal, vibration, and acoustic performance.
- Life cycle assessment (LCA), energy consumption, and techno-economic assessment (TEA) of material processing and product manufacturing as well as the whole building systems.
- Socio-economic impact assessment of sustainable bio-based materials and products
- Applications of biomass materials in buildings and other engineering fields
[1] https://wedocs.unep.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.11822/34572/GSR_ES.pdf
Dr. Ling Li
Prof. Dr. Antti Haapala
Dr. Jianhui Zhou
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- bioproducts
- building
- energy efficiency
- climate change
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