Prof. Zhangxing Chen
Eastern Institute for Advanced Study, Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo, Zhengjiang, China.
Prof. Jinguang Hu
Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Prof. Heng Zhao
Eastern Institute for Advanced Study, Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China.
Due to the natural sustainability of biomass energy, leveraging it through various technologies provides an alternative carbon-negative strategy to contribute to carbon neutrality. With the great development of nanomaterials, biotechnology, and processing regulation, biomass utilization is gaining extensive attention. Combining sustainable technologies such as photocatalysis, electrocatalysis, biocatalysis,
etc. with biomass conversion is shedding new light on biomass utilization, biofuels production, hydrogen generation, and environmental remediation. It is becoming clear that the advancements in catalytic materials, reaction processing regulations, mechanical investigations, economic feasibility studies, and industrial applications will mainly facilitate the biomass utilization for energy storage.
Specific areas to be covered include, but are not limited to:
● Sustainable photo(electro)catalysis for biomass utilization/pretreatment;
● Biomass gasification for biofuels and/or chemicals;
● Processing investigations for industrialization;
● Biomass treatment for functional materials;
● Hydrogen production and CO2 reduction coupled with biomass conversion.
Renewable energy, biomass photorefining, biofuels, hydrogen, electrochemical biomass utilization, biomanufacturing