About this Research Topic
To deal with global warming, the development of carbon-negative technologies is highly regarded as one of the most promising approaches to producing biofuels, green chemicals, and other bioproducts. Additionally, the safe and sustainable disposal of the increasing amount of organic waste globally has become a major challenge, as it poses threats to human and environmental health. Organic wastes, such as food waste, excess activated sludge, livestock manure, and crop residues, contain high energy content and, therefore, have the potential to be treated to capture carbon and achieve net negative emissions. The recovery of bioenergy and resources from these organic wastes is attractive from both environmental and economic perspectives.
This Research Topic "Resource Recovery from Organic Wastes ton the way to Carbon Neutrality" aims to showcase high-quality research focusing on the latest innovative advances in carbon-neutral operations for resource recovery from organic wastes. We encourage contributions that enhance the understanding of fundamental and practical issues related to microbiology, electrochemistry, thermochemistry in bioconversion, electrochemical and thermochemical conversion, as well as separation processes for resource recovery from organic wastes. Technological advancements in anaerobic digestion, fermentation, electro-fermentation, microbial electrochemical technology, pyrolysis, gasification, along with process design, operation, modeling, and applications, are all topics that can contribute to achieving a carbon-neutral economy and sustainable development.
We welcome original research and review articles covering a wide range of topics, including, but not limited to the following.
• resource recovery, including nutrients, energy, and value-added chemicals;
• regulation of microorganisms and metabolisms in bioconversion and biorefinery processes;
• approaches to enhance process design, operation, monitoring, modeling, and applications;
• life cycle analysis (LCA) for resource recovery from organic waste with carbon carbon-neutral approach.
This Research Topic "Resource Recovery from Organic Wastes ton the way to Carbon Neutrality" aims to showcase high-quality research focusing on the latest innovative advances in carbon-neutral operations for resource recovery from organic wastes. We encourage contributions that enhance the understanding of fundamental and practical issues related to microbiology, electrochemistry, thermochemistry in bioconversion, electrochemical and thermochemical conversion, as well as separation processes for resource recovery from organic wastes. Technological advancements in anaerobic digestion, fermentation, electro-fermentation, microbial electrochemical technology, pyrolysis, gasification, along with process design, operation, modeling, and applications, are all topics that can contribute to achieving a carbon-neutral economy and sustainable development.
We welcome original research and review articles covering a wide range of topics, including, but not limited to the following.
• resource recovery, including nutrients, energy, and value-added chemicals;
• regulation of microorganisms and metabolisms in bioconversion and biorefinery processes;
• approaches to enhance process design, operation, monitoring, modeling, and applications;
• life cycle analysis (LCA) for resource recovery from organic waste with carbon carbon-neutral approach.
Keywords: resource recovery, organic wastes, energy recovery, value-added products, biological, electrochemical, thermochemical, carbon-negative
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