Archives: Topics

Advances in renewable chemicals; Production of high-added value organic compounds; New products from biomass: bio-based chemicals and polymers, bio-catalysts, additives; bioplastics, etc.; Production of organic fertilizers and compost; Nutrients cycles…

Fuels and chemical building blocks from synthesis gas; Production of value added chemicals and macromolecules from lignin; Production of fine chemicals from sugar and oil platforms; Process development, maximising conversion…

Combined production of fuels, chemicals and materials from biomass; Innovative processes integrating fuel production into bio-based refineries; Process integration; Co-production options and economics; Technical and economic assessments.

Production of liquid bioenergy carriers from solid biomass; Fundamental studies; Technology advances; Process modelling, improvement and optimisation; Bio-oil purification, upgrading and utilisation (combustion, chemical extraction, gasification, etc.); By-product utilisation; Wastewater…

Advances in hydrothermal liquefaction, gasification and hydrothermal carbonisation; Process fundamentals and studies; Technology and process improvement; Biocrude production, purification, upgrading; Value-added compounds extraction; Energy balance and techno-economic analysis.

Oil-based fuels and renewable hydrocarbon biofuels from lipids and lignocellulosic biomass; Bio-Synthetic Natural Gas (Bio-SNG); Algae biofuels production, technology advances; Bioprocesses for microbial oils production; Innovative processes for synthetic fuels…

Biochemical routes for lignocellulosic ethanol, other alcohols production; Pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass; Enzymatic hydrolysis and microorganism fermentation into alcohols; Novel C6 and C5 fermentation techniques; Progress on ethanol production from…

Synthetic fuel production processes; Technological innovations of Power-to-X (Power-to-gas, Power-to-liquids, etc.); Renewable fuels of non-biological origin (RFNBO), Recycled Carbon Fuels (RCF); Hydrogen production pathways: thermochemical, electrolytic, photolytic, biological processes; Hydrogen…

Biomass pretreatment and densification; Physical, chemical, physico-chemical and biological methods for biomass pretreatment; Process development and  optimisation; Characterisation and utilisation of solid fuels and intermediates; Logistics, storage and distribution.