New Insights into Catalytic Production and Upgrading of Bio-Oil

Dear Colleagues,

Currently, increases in demands for biomass exploitation as a new sustainable energy source to solve the conventional energy source depletion and alleviate global warming are bringing about developments in conversion technologies. A series of techniques have been developed to convert biomass into fuels or chemicals, including biological and thermochemical pathways. It usually takes a long time for biological conversion, while thermochemical pathways perform the fast conversion into fuels or chemicals and almost no feedstock limitation.

The bio-oil from biomass without any upgrading or downstream processing cannot be used as a drop-in fuel due to a high water content, a low corrosive pH, a higher oxygen content, a higher heating value, and hazardous materials including (S-compounds, metals, N-compounds, and a high content of oxygenated compounds). Therefore, it is highly essential to upgrade the overall quality of bio-oil and make it a competitive fuel.

The introduction of catalysts helps not only decreases the temperature of the biomass conversion processes for energy saving in maximizing bio-oil yields but also enhances the quality of those fuels to practical demands.

This Special Issue, entitled “New Insights into Catalytic Production and Upgrading of Bio-Oil", will collect the new contributions of this field, including original research, reviews, and short communications. 

Dr. Thien An Le
Dr. Hoang Phuoc Ho
Guest Editors

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• Catalytic conversion of biomass to liquid fuels/biofuels
• Hydrothermal liquefaction
• pyrolysis of biomass for the production of bio-oils
• Catalytic upgrading of bio-oils
• Catalytic hydro-processing
• Hydrodeoxygenation, hydrodesulfurization, hydrodemetallization, hydrodenitrogenation
• Thermodynamic, kinetic analysis, conversion pathways investigation.