Enhanced Design and Optimization of Advanced and Intensified Distillation Processes for the Separation and Purification of Biomass Derivatives
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "A4: Bio-Energy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 February 2022) | Viewed by 10724
Special Issue Editors
Interests: process design; process simulation; artificial intelligence (AI); renewable energy; engineering thermodynamics; hydrogen energy; process controls; distillation
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Interests: process design and optimization; process integration and intensification; process retrofit and debottlenecking; advanced and intensified distillation; separation processes; hybrid separation systems; reactive separation processes; acid gas removal, natural gas liquid (NGL), liquefied natural gas (LNG), refrigeration engineering; refrigerant reclamation; biofuel; biochemical; biorefineries
Interests: process design, integration, intensification, and optimization; biorefineries; lignocellulosic biomass; resource recovery from waste; CCS; CO2 utilization; CO2 emission reduction
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The sustainable conversion processes for producing biofuels and biochemicals from biomass in biorefineries have attracted increased attention in recent years. However, the main issue associated with biomass products is their low concentration in the final product line, resulting in the energy- and cost-intensive recovery of high added-value products. This has prompted process industries to search for all possible advanced and intensified configurations to significantly reduce the product recovery cost in order to make the process viable and competitive. This Special Issue will publish studies demonstrating various methods, developments, and theories in the field of process engineering to facilitate biomass derivative separation and purification using advanced and intensified distillation processes. Scientific investigations and industrial practices on process design, integration, and intensification in order to substantially improve efficiency and performance and reduce cost will be the main body of the Special Issue. Relevant sub-topics from both research (experimental, numerical, and simulated) and applications are also welcomed.
The scope of this Special Issue covers, but is not limited to, the following topics:
- Hybrid and advanced distillation technologies for the separation and purification of biomass derivatives;
- Reactive distillation processes;
- Techno-economic analysis and sustainability analysis;
- Process design, integration, and intensification;
- Process modeling, simulation, and optimization;
- Biorefinery development and case studies;
- Sustainable approaches for biofuel and biochemical production technologies;
- Integrated lignocellulosic biorefinery for a sustainable bio-based economy;
- Energy efficiency.
Prof. Moonyong Lee
Assist. Prof. Nguyen Van Duc Long
Assist. Prof. Le Cao Nhien
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- lignocellulosic biorefinery
- biomass derivatives
- biofuel and biochemicals
- hybrid distillation
- advanced distillation
- process intensification
- techno-economic analysis
- purification and separation
- energy efficiency
- sustainable process.
