Special Issue - Towards a sustainable bioeconomy: Working in harmony with the environment-food-energy-water nexus
摘要截稿: 2018-11-15
全文截稿: 2019-01-31
影响因子: 3.726
期刊难度:
CCF分类: 无
中科院JCR分区:
• 大类 : 农林科学 - 2区
• 小类 : 生物工程与应用微生物 - 2区
• 小类 : 工程:化工 - 2区
• 小类 : 食品科技 - 2区
Overview
Summary: Biomass is a strategic resource that can be used to produce energy, fuels and other high-value products. Since the production of biomass requires a large amount of land and water, it competes with food production and can affect the ecosystem (e.g. deforestation, leaching of fertilisers and pesticides into water bodies), there is a delicate balance between all of these elements. Together, these are known as the environment-food-energy-water nexus, and all of the benefits associated with the use of biomass to meet our requirements for energy and other products must be considered along with the potential impact on the nexus as a whole. Therefore, it is important not only to understand how best to exploit the great potential of biomass but also to understand the detailed interactions among all of the elements in the nexus.
Purpose: There is a wealth of research on biomass valorisation and bio-refineries but very little of this has considered the wider impact of biomass production and utilisation on the nexus of food, energy, water, ecosystem services and biodiversity. This special issue aims to cover the lack of scientific literature in this crucial area, to highlight its importance and provide a platform for dissemination of the state-of-the-art and recent advances in this field. It is envisioned that this Special Issue will be a key reference for engineers, scientists, industrialists and policy-makers when shaping a future sustainable bioeconomy.
Scope of the Special Issue: The scope of this Special Issue includes research on development of sustainable resources and technologies that supports the solution to nexus issues of biomass conversion, systems engineering and integration, and techno-socio-economic-environmental impacts of the bioeconomy on the nexus.
Sustainable resources and technologies
o New feedstocks, including their characterisations, potential availability based on spatial modelling using Geographical Information Systems (GIS), and their potential value chains
o Sustainable agriculture, farming and land use
o Novel pre-treatment, extraction or conversion technologies for production of food and bio-products
o Novel processes or technologies that enhance nutrient recovery and re-use
o Novel thermal, biochemical, electrochemical and chemical conversion technologies that have scope for energy or water integration
o Techniques, processes and technologies that enhance water conservation and decrease the water footprint of biomass-based products
o Novel storage processes and technologies
Systems engineering and integration
o Process systems integration of biorefineries
o Novel process integration methods simultaneously considering multiple resources (e.g. energy and water, water and nutrients)
o Integration of biorefinery concepts with food processing
o Products made feasible through integration
o Techno-ecological integration with nutrient, water and/or energy recovery
o Supply chain modelling and optimisation
o Methods for integrating biomass supply chains with the environment-food-energy-water nexus
Assessment of techno-socio-economic-environmental impacts
o Novel methods or analyses of biomass production and conversion, accounting for the environment-food-energy-water nexus
o Resource accounting using established methods such as energy and exergy analysis
o Environmental assessment using carbon accounting, water footprint, or life cycle assessment
o Impacts of biomass production and conversion on ecosystem services
o Techno-economic studies including sensitivity and uncertainty analyses
o Stakeholder analysis
o Agent-based modelling