Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue of ChemEngineering will aim the publication of original manuscripts and critical reviews dealing with the application of the process development principles both at industrial and laboratory scales. Manuscripts emphasizing highly active catalyst preparation and testing, process design, modeling,  optimization  and their economic efficiency assesment, with the end-goal of producing value added (bio)chemical products will be welcome.

In order to produce value added chemical and biochemical products, an increasing number of processes, involving both homogeneous and heterogeneous catalytic materials, are proposed nowadays in different engineering fields. The development of an industrial process requires extensive laboratory studies, and then an appropriate scale-up to provide a sufficient level of know-how. Manufacturing a catalyst with good activity and selectivity for a specific product plays a crucial role in increasing the economic efficiency of a process, whereas this step requires developing appropriate operating conditions for catalyst synthesis with a strong correlation between these aspects and the chemical structure of the catalyst. Given the global environmental requirements, a special emphasis should be conferred to the use of renewable raw materials as well as the minimization of wastes in the proposed alternatives.

Dr. Ionut Banu
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

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• homogeneous catalysis
• heterogeneous catalysis
• catalyst deactivation
• value added chemicals
• catalytic processes
• organic and bioactive compounds
• process engineering
• renewable raw materials