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Call for Papers - Biorefinery for bioalcohols production: Pretreatment, fermentation, and separation

Guest Editors:
Peiyong Qin, PhD, College of life science and technology, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China
Di Cai, PhD, National Energy R&D Center for Biorefinery, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China

Submission Status: Closed


Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts is calling for submissions to our Collection on Biorefinery for bioalcohols production: Pretreatment, fermentation, and separation. This special collection aims to gather high-quality research outcomes on the recent advances in biorefinery for bioalcohols production.

Meet the Guest Editors

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Peiyong Qin,PhD, College of life science and technology, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China

Peiyong Qin, Professor, Dean of Houdebang Engineer School at Beijing University of Chemical Technology. He got his PhD from department of chemical engineering at Tsinghua University in 2005. In 2008, he was awarded Beijing science and technology new star. In 2010, he joined Nazmul Krim’s group as a research associate at Texas Tech. University. His research interests have focused on bioenergy and membrane separation. Especially, he proposed a refinery strategy for bioethanol production. Moreover, he also succeeded in inventing an ultrafast preparation method for PDMS membrane. He was also awarded several Prizes for Scientific and Technology Progress including one Second Class Prizes of The State Scientific and Technological Progress Award. He has published over 100 papers and book chapters, including the journal of Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Small, Green Chemistry, AIChE Journal, Journal of Membrane Science, Chemical Engineering Journal, Biotechnology for biofuels, Bioresource Technology, Desalination, and Langmuir.
 

Di Cai, PhD, National Energy R&D Center for Biorefinery, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China
Dr. Di Cai, currently associate professor at Beijing University of Chemical Technology, obtained his Ph.D degree in 2016 in the field of biochemical engineering. His research activities encompass the biorefinery of lignocellulosic biomass for biochemicals and biomaterials, especially on the process development for bioalcohols production. He has about 100 peer reviewed papers and book chapters with an H index of 31, and he granted 10 patents. He was awarded CPCIF-Clariant Clean Tech Award in 2018.
 

About the collection

Biomanufacturing of renewable liquid fuels, such as ethanol and n-butanol, from biomass is a critical direction for carbon neutrality. However, in contrast to the mature bioalcohols industry that based on the first-generation sugar and starch-containing raw ingredients, there is still a significant gap between the scale of ambition and commercialization in the second- and third- generations bioalcohols production from abundant lignocellulose and industrial waste gas. In recent years, increasingly more studies have emerged, which are focusing on the development of alternative techniques for maximizing the environmental and economics of the bioalcohols production from raw biomass feedstocks. 

This special collection of Biotechnology for Biofuels aims to gather high-quality research outcomes on the recent advances in biorefinery for bioalcohols production. Specifically, the collection will cover the following topics (but are not limited to): the fractionation of lignocellulose, the development of renewable sugars platform, the construction of bioalcohols producing strain, the strengthening of fermentation and downstream separation processes, the waste streams management and valorization, and the upgrading of the bioalcohols. Special consideration will be given to studies investigating the “zero carbon” or “carbon negative” biorefinery processes for bioalcohols. Research focused on the supply chain of biomass feedstocks, the techno-economic analysis, and life-cycle assessment are also encouraged.


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  1. The use of ionic liquids (ILs) to fractionate lignocelluloses for various bio-based chemicals productions is in the ascendant. On this basis, the protic ILs consisting of triethylammonium hydrogen sulfate ([TE...

    Authors: Yankun Wang, Di Cai, Yongjie Jiang, Xueying Mei, Wenqiang Ren, Mingyuan Sun, Changsheng Su, Hui Cao, Changwei Zhang and Peiyong Qin
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2024 17:62
  2. Recent publications have shown the benefits of deacetylation disc-refining (DDR) as a pretreatment process to deconstruct biomass into sugars and lignin residues. Major advantages of DDR pretreatment over stea...

    Authors: Darren J. Peterson, Changyub Paek, Ling Tao, Ryan Davis, Xiaowen Chen, Roman Brunecky, Matthew Fowler and Richard Elander
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2024 17:52
  3. The present work models the fermentation process parameters of the newly isolated, Meyerozyma caribbica CP02 for enhanced xylitol production and its fermentability study on rice straw hydrolysate. The study exami...

    Authors: Saumya Singh, Shailendra Kumar Arya and Meena Krishania
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2024 17:31
  4. Isopropanol (IPA) is a commodity chemical used as a solvent or raw material for polymeric products, such as plastics. Currently, IPA production depends largely on high-CO2-emission petrochemical methods that are ...

    Authors: Junya Kato, Takeshi Matsuo, Kaisei Takemura, Setsu Kato, Tatsuya Fujii, Keisuke Wada, Yusuke Nakamichi, Masahiro Watanabe, Yoshiteru Aoi, Tomotake Morita, Katsuji Murakami and Yutaka Nakashimada
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2024 17:13
  5. A large amount of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane, are released during the production process of bioethanol and biogas. Converting CO2 into methane is a promising way of capturing CO2 and gen...

    Authors: Jie Yin, Zihui Yao, Qizhi Zhao, Shikun Cheng, Xuemei Wang and Zifu Li
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2024 17:12
  6. The effective valorization of lignin and carbohydrates in lignocellulose matrix under the concept of biorefinery is a primary strategy to produce sustainable chemicals and fuels. Based on the reductive catalyt...

    Authors: Yilu Wu, Changsheng Su, Zicheng Liao, Gege Zhang, Yongjie Jiang, Yankun Wang, Changwei Zhang, Di Cai, Peiyong Qin and Tianwei Tan
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2024 17:8
  7. Alternative biofuels have the potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and particulate matter due to free of aromatics compared to traditional petroleum-based aviation fuel. The potential mitigating emissi...

    Authors: Ziyu Liu, Zhichao Wang and Xiaoyi Yang
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2023 16:196
  8. Agar is used as a gelling agent that possesses a variety of biological properties; it consists of the polysaccharides agarose and porphyrin. In addition, the monomeric sugars generated after agar hydrolysis ca...

    Authors: Anoth Maharjan, Wonho Choi, Hee Taek Kim and Jung-Ho Park
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2023 16:193
  9. Lignocellulose, the most abundant non-edible feedstock on Earth, holds substantial potential for eco-friendly chemicals, fuels, and pharmaceuticals production. Glucose, xylose, and arabinose are primary compon...

    Authors: Xiaolin Shen, Hongchao Xu, Tong Wang, Ruihua Zhang, Xinxiao Sun, Qipeng Yuan and Jia Wang
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2023 16:172
  10. Alternative aviation fuel has been confirmed benefits for GHGs reduction and energy saving. Alternative fuel use should meet drop-in fuel requirement, and one of the important factors to ensure combustion comp...

    Authors: Ziyu Liu, Zimu Tang and Xiaoyi Yang
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2023 16:171
  11. High substrate concentrations and high sugar yields are important aspects of enzymatic saccharification of lignocellulosic substrates. The benefit of supporting the catalytic action of lytic polysaccharide mon...

    Authors: Chaojun Tang, Madhavi Latha Gandla and Leif J. Jönsson
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2023 16:156
  12. l-Leucine is a high-value amino acid with promising applications in the medicine and feed industries. However, the complex metabolic network and intracellular redox imbalance in fermentative microbes limit thei.....

    Authors: Yanan Hao, Xuewei Pan, Guomin Li, Jiajia You, Hengwei Zhang, Sihan Yan, Meijuan Xu and Zhiming Rao
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2023 16:145
  13. Traditional bioethanol fermentation industries are not operated under strict sterile conditions and are prone to microbial contamination. Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) are often pervasive in fermentation tanks, c...

    Authors: Maulik H. Patel, Shao-Yeh Lu, Siqing Liu and Christopher D. Skory
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2023 16:144
  14. Clostridium thermocellum is a natively cellulolytic bacterium that is promising candidate for cellulosic biofuel production, and can produce ethanol at high yields (75–80% of theoretical) but the ethanol titers p...

    Authors: Daniel G. Olson, Marybeth I. Maloney, Anthony A. Lanahan, Nicholas D. Cervenka, Ying Xia, Angel Pech-Canul, Shuen Hon, Liang Tian, Samantha J. Ziegler, Yannick J. Bomble and Lee R. Lynd
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2023 16:137
  15. Sustainably produced renewable biomass has the potential to replace fossil-based feedstocks, for generation of biobased fuels and chemicals of industrial interest, in biorefineries. In this context, seaweeds c...

    Authors: Antoine Moenaert, Bryndís Bjornsdottir, Einar Baldvin Haraldsson, Leila Allahgholi, Anna Zieri, Isabella Zangl, Sigríður Sigurðardóttir, Jóhann Örlygsson, Eva Nordberg Karlsson, Ólafur H. Friðjónsson and Guðmundur Óli Hreggviðsson
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2023 16:135
  16. Xylo-oligomers are a kind of high value-added products in biomass fractionation. Although there are several chemical methods to obtain xylo-oligomers from biomass, the reports about the deep eutectic solvents ...

    Authors: Hai-Qing Deng, Xiao-Hui Lin, Jun-Tao Fan, Ping-Zhang Fu, Jia-Jun Guan, Han-Lin Lei, Li-Hao Liu, Lin-Hao Lai, Xue-Dan Hou and Wen-Yong Lou
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2023 16:126
  17. Biofilm-immobilized continuous fermentation has the potential to enhance cellular environmental tolerance, maintain cell activity and improve production efficiency.

    Authors: Zhenyu Wang, Weikai Xu, Yixuan Gao, Mingwei Zha, Di Zhang, Xiwei Peng, Huifang Zhang, Cheng Wang, Chenchen Xu, Tingqiu Zhou, Dong Liu, Huanqing Niu, Qingguo Liu, Yong Chen, Chenjie Zhu, Ting Guo…
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2023 16:119
  18. The efficient production of sustainable biofuels is important for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. Clostridium thermocellum ATCC 27405 is a candidate for ethanol production from lignocellulosic biomass ...

    Authors: Steve R. Daley, Patricia Mae Gallanosa and Richard Sparling
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2023 16:112
  19. Many fresh water bodies face a great challenge of an invasive weed called water hyacinth (WH) which has great impacts on the environment, ecology, and society. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates...

    Authors: Hortence Ingabire, Milton M. M’arimi, Kirimi H. Kiriamiti and Boniface Ntambara
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2023 16:110
  20. Lignocellulose-derived aldehyde inhibitors seriously blocked the biorefinery of biofuels and biochemicals. To date, the economic production of lignocellulose-based products heavily relied on high productivitie...

    Authors: Xia Yi, Dong Yang, Xiaoyan Xu, Youjun Wang, Yan Guo, Meng Zhang, Yilong Wang, Yucai He and Jie Zhu
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2023 16:102
  21. As one of the most abundant bioresource in nature, the value-added utilization of lignocellulosic biomass is limited due to its inherent stubbornness. Pretreatment is a necessary step to break down the recalci...

    Authors: Zhen Zhang, Furong Tao and Hairui Ji
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2023 16:99
  22. Lignocellulosic biomass is an attractive non-food feedstock for lactic acid production via microbial conversion due to its abundance and low-price, which can alleviate the conflict with food supplies. However,...

    Authors: Wenwen Shan, Yongli Yan, Yongda Li, Wei Hu and Jihong Chen
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 2023 16:78

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This Collection welcomes submission of Research Articles. Before submitting your manuscript, please ensure you have read our submission guidelines. Articles for this Collection should be submitted via our submission system, Snapp. During the submission process you will be asked whether you are submitting to a Collection, please select "Biorefinery for bioalcohols production: Pretreatment, fermentation, and separation" from the dropdown menu.

Articles will undergo the journal’s standard peer-review process and are subject to all of the journal’s standard policies. Articles will be added to the Collection as they are published.

The Guest Editors have no competing interests with the submissions which they handle through the peer review process. The peer review of any submissions for which the Guest Editors have competing interests is handled by another Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests.