About this Research Topic
The present treatise as an editorial topic envisions concepts and fundamentals on biomass valorization, bioreactors, various state of the art of designs, and fabrication of bioreactors, and bioprocess technology with comprehensive coverage of recent updates towards energy technology. This Editorial also essentially identifies the gaps and constraints in the commercial realization of the technologies ascertaining their techno-economic feasibility. This Editorial apparently aids academicians, industrialists, and technology experts to identify and select the appropriate technology models for sustainable bioenergy production. However, many challenges still have to be faced to improve the competitiveness of the production to replace fossil resources.
In view of the rapidly depleting fossil reserves, towering environmental pollution, coupled with economic and diplomatic problems owing to limited fossil reserves and uneven distributions. There is a global concern to ascertain alternative energy sources and to tackle voluminous waste generated. In this context, there has been a heightened interest in bioreactors for sustainable clean energy and bio-waste abatement, with a thrust on devising state of the art of bioreactors and frontiers in configuration, process controlling, modeling, and simulations, biomass valorization, and wastewater treatment together with its techno-economic viability. Through the research topic, we wish to highlight numerous ongoing research and progress in bioreactors, advanced bioprocess control across types/scales/utilities with a due emphasis on both fundamental and applications of bioenergy coupled with biomass and wastewater treatment imparting scope for scale-up/fabrication at industrial level and commerciality of the technology providing global solutions to existing and future global concerns.
Keywords: Biprocess control, Energy production, wastewater treatment, Bioreactors, biocatalyst.
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