Recent Advances on the Valorisation of Lignocellulosic Agro-Industrial Sources
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Science and Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 January 2021) | Viewed by 2965
Special Issue Editors
Interests: the valorisation of lignocellulosic agro-industrial sources
Interests: sustainable process; agro-industrial residues; added-value products; isolation and characterization; innovative extraction methods
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Interests: development of mild pre-treatments processes aiming at the selective fractionation of biomass towards an integrated upgrading in a biorefinery framework
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The current energy and environmental issues derived in part by the excessive use of the increasingly depleted fossil resources has encouraged the research on the field of alternative renewable sources friendly environment. In this context, lignocellulosic by-products and residues appear as promising raw materials to obtaining energy and chemicals that are usually obtained from oil fractions. Taking into account the composition of lignocellulosic materials they can be fractionated following a biorefinery concept. This approach has a double benefit: on the one hand the removal of a residue that causes pollution in the environment and the other hand the economic profit derived from the obtained products. In the last years, numerous technologies have been developed to exploit lignocellulosic materials based on the principles of the Green Chemistry. New solvents with promising advantages over the conventional solvents have arisen as well as emerging technologies more friendly environment in comparison with conventional methods. Moreover, purification sequences have been imposed as a mandatory requirement in the case of the products for which a high purity is required. The integral biorefineries that allow the transition toward a circular economy should be boosted to promote the sustainable development. Aspects such as life cycle and techno-economic analyses have sparked great interest in the recent years.
The aim of this Special Issue is to attract leading researchers in the area of valorization of lignocellulosic materials in an attempt to show the more recent and promising advances to develop more sustainable biorefinery processes. Accepted manuscripts will include the fractionation processes of lignocellulosic materials using both conventional and emerging technologies, the use of green solvents, purification sequences, and new and emerging applications of the obtained products. Moreover, contributions about the life cycle analysis and techno-economic analysis of the biorefinery processes will consider. The works focused on the use of lignocellulosic materials in a context of circular economy and sustainable development will be take into account.
Dr. Patricia Gullón
Dr. Beatriz Gullon
Dr. Florbela Carvalheiro
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Lignocellulosic materials
- Agro-industrial sources
- Biorefinery
- Conventional treatments
- Emerging intensification treatments
- Green solvents
- Deep eutectic solvent
- Hemicelluloses
- Oligosaccharides
- Bioactivities
- Functional ingredients
- Lignin
- Lignin depolimerisation
- Biomaterials
- Cellulose
- Cellulose Nanocrystals
- Cellulose Nanofibers
- Fermentative sugar
- Purification treatments
- Biofuels
- Bioprocess
- Circular economy
- Zero waste
- Sustainable development
- Life Cycle Analysis
- Techno-economic analysis
