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Moving towards a sustainable and green economy requires the use of renewable resources for the production of fuels, chemicals, and materials. In such a scenario, the use of lignocellulosic biomass and waste streams plays an important role, as it consists of abundant renewable resources. The complex nature of lignocellulosic biomass dictates the use of a pretreatment process prior to any further processing. Traditional methods of biomass pretreatment fail to recover cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin in clean streams. It has been recognized that the efficient use of all the main fractions of lignocellulosic biomass (cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin) is an important step towards a financially sustainable biomass biorefinery. In this context, switching from biomass pretreatment to biomass fractionation can offer a sustainable solution to recover relatively clean streams of cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin. This Special issue aims at exploring the most advanced solutions in biomass and waste pretreatment and fractionation techniques, together with novel (thermo)chemical and biochemical processes for the conversion of fractionated cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin to bioenergy, bio-based chemicals, and biomaterials, including the application of such products (i.e., use of biochar for filtration and metallurgical processes), as well as recent developments in kinetic, thermodynamic, and numeric modeling of conversion processes. The scope of this Special Issue will also cover progress in advanced measuring methods and techniques used in the characterization of biomass, waste, and products.

Technology: general issues --- Acacia tortilis --- biofuel --- biomass --- pine dust --- pyrolysis --- Napier grass --- bioethanol --- biomass fractionation --- enzyme hydrolysis --- acid pretreatment --- alkali pretreatment --- microwave-assisted pretreatment --- pretreatment parameters --- enzymatic hydrolysis --- glucose --- xylose --- lignocellulosic sugars --- microbial lipid --- olive mill wastewater --- Cryptococcus curvatus --- Lipomyces starkeyi --- lignin --- organosolv fractionation --- TGA --- 31P NMR --- HSQC --- heat treatment --- charcoal --- electrical resistivity --- coal --- coke --- high-temperature treatment --- organosolv --- Kraft lignin --- etherification --- lignin functionalization --- thermoplastics --- oxidative lignin upgrade --- catalytic lignin oxidation --- vanadate --- molybdate --- ionosolv --- biomimetic --- bio-based reductant --- ferroalloy industry --- kiln --- 2nd generation sugars --- lignocellulose --- hydrolyzate --- biorefinery --- furfural --- hydroxymethylfurfural --- bioeconomy --- life cycle assessment --- sustainable biomass growth --- mining --- metallurgical coke --- n/a

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Moving towards a sustainable and green economy requires the use of renewable resources for the production of fuels, chemicals, and materials. In such a scenario, the use of lignocellulosic biomass and waste streams plays an important role, as it consists of abundant renewable resources. The complex nature of lignocellulosic biomass dictates the use of a pretreatment process prior to any further processing. Traditional methods of biomass pretreatment fail to recover cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin in clean streams. It has been recognized that the efficient use of all the main fractions of lignocellulosic biomass (cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin) is an important step towards a financially sustainable biomass biorefinery. In this context, switching from biomass pretreatment to biomass fractionation can offer a sustainable solution to recover relatively clean streams of cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin. This Special issue aims at exploring the most advanced solutions in biomass and waste pretreatment and fractionation techniques, together with novel (thermo)chemical and biochemical processes for the conversion of fractionated cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin to bioenergy, bio-based chemicals, and biomaterials, including the application of such products (i.e., use of biochar for filtration and metallurgical processes), as well as recent developments in kinetic, thermodynamic, and numeric modeling of conversion processes. The scope of this Special Issue will also cover progress in advanced measuring methods and techniques used in the characterization of biomass, waste, and products.

Acacia tortilis --- biofuel --- biomass --- pine dust --- pyrolysis --- Napier grass --- bioethanol --- biomass fractionation --- enzyme hydrolysis --- acid pretreatment --- alkali pretreatment --- microwave-assisted pretreatment --- pretreatment parameters --- enzymatic hydrolysis --- glucose --- xylose --- lignocellulosic sugars --- microbial lipid --- olive mill wastewater --- Cryptococcus curvatus --- Lipomyces starkeyi --- lignin --- organosolv fractionation --- TGA --- 31P NMR --- HSQC --- heat treatment --- charcoal --- electrical resistivity --- coal --- coke --- high-temperature treatment --- organosolv --- Kraft lignin --- etherification --- lignin functionalization --- thermoplastics --- oxidative lignin upgrade --- catalytic lignin oxidation --- vanadate --- molybdate --- ionosolv --- biomimetic --- bio-based reductant --- ferroalloy industry --- kiln --- 2nd generation sugars --- lignocellulose --- hydrolyzate --- biorefinery --- furfural --- hydroxymethylfurfural --- bioeconomy --- life cycle assessment --- sustainable biomass growth --- mining --- metallurgical coke --- n/a

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Although the compression ignition (C.I.) engine, invented by Rudolf Diesel, was originally intended to work with pure vegetable oils as fuel, more than a century ago, it was adapted to be used with a fuel of fossil origin, obtained from oil. Therefore, there would be no technical difficulties in returning to the primitive design of using biofuels of renewable origin, such as vegetable oils. The main drawback is found in the one billion C.I. engines which are currently in use, which would have to undergo a modification in the injection system in order to adapt them to the higher viscosity of vegetable oils in comparison to that of fossil fuels. Thus, the gradual incorporation of biofuels as substitutes of fossil fuels is mandatory.

Research & information: general --- Technology: general issues --- biodiesel --- Ecodiesel --- selective ethanolysis --- sunflower oil --- Lipozyme RM IM --- Rhizomucor miehei --- ANOVA method --- response surface methodology --- gasoline oil blends --- castor oil --- biofuel --- diesel engine --- electricity generator --- smoke opacity --- Bacharach opacity --- straight vegetable oils (SVO) --- glycerol --- heterogeneous catalysis --- etherification --- isobutene --- tert-Butyl alcohol --- oxygenated fuel additives --- hydrogen production --- photo-reforming --- Ni/TiO2 --- transesterification --- Aspergillus terreus lipase --- polydopamine --- immobilization --- RSM --- fuel properties --- diethyl ether --- Bosch smoke number --- vacuum fractionation --- fuel --- fatty acids composition --- ethyl acetate --- straight vegetable oils --- vegetable oil blends --- biofuels --- soot emissions --- engine power output

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Adequate quality of life and well-being of modern societies is only achievable with sustainable manufacturing processes that efficiently use raw materials, eliminate waste, and avoid the use of hazardous materials. All this is hardly conceivable without catalysis. In a world concerned with the exploitation of natural resources, catalysis can offer direct synthesis routes that maximize resource efficiency. The Iberoamerican society is far too significant and far too involved in global development, owing to its natural richness of resources, not to have an essential role in current developments and future directions. Catalysis, in the Iberoamerican academic and industrial communities, is recognized as a relevant scientific discipline that supports several strategic industrial sectors through the manufacturing of products and materials, and the operationalization of processes to produce energy and other utilities. As a reflection of this, once every two years the Iberoamerican Congress on Catalysis takes place to share and discuss the state-of-the-art of this discipline with the Federation of Iberoamerican Catalysis Societies. This book collected sixteen outstanding contributions, stemming from this exceptional event—one which will undoubtedly mark a turning point and could be a source of inspiration to all those involved in catalysis, particularly the young generation of competent researchers taking their first steps in this incredibly complex and beautiful discipline.

History of engineering & technology --- hydrodeoxygenation --- fast-pyrolysis bio-oil --- nickel catalyst --- upgrading --- peptide bond --- phthalonitriles --- phthalocyanines --- aminocarbonylation --- palladium catalysts --- castor oil --- biofuel --- selective transesterification --- ecodiesel --- biodiesel --- diesel engine --- electricity generator --- smoke opacity --- Bacharach opacity --- aldol condensation --- biomass valorization --- Mg/Al mixed oxides --- surfactant --- microwaves --- influence of water --- FAEEs --- mixed biocatalysts --- lipases --- microalgae --- silver nanoparticles --- zirconia --- hydrocarbons --- diesel soot --- catalytic combustion --- boronic esters --- borylation --- Suzuki–Miyaura --- layered double hydroxides --- copper --- palladium --- Fe/Nb2O5 immobilized catalyst --- emerging pollutants --- degradation --- hydrodesulfurization --- CoMo/Al2O3 --- basic additive --- lanthanum --- MCM-41 --- cerium --- benzyl alcohol --- oxidation --- benzaldehyde --- etherification --- glycerol --- tert-butyl alcohol --- dibutyl ether --- A-15 --- catalyst stability --- Cobalt ferrite --- ethylesters --- biofuels --- hydrotalcite --- transesterification --- fast pyrolysis --- SAPO-5 --- Al-MCM-41 --- dodecanoic acid --- photocatalysis --- Mg/Fe layered double hydroxides --- coprecipitation --- chlorophenols --- mixed oxides --- elimination --- phenol --- Al2O3-TiO2 --- CoMo --- CoMoS --- MoS2 --- desulfurization --- chemisorption --- MPI silica --- Ag nanoparticles --- XPS assessment --- n/a --- Suzuki-Miyaura

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Adequate quality of life and well-being of modern societies is only achievable with sustainable manufacturing processes that efficiently use raw materials, eliminate waste, and avoid the use of hazardous materials. All this is hardly conceivable without catalysis. In a world concerned with the exploitation of natural resources, catalysis can offer direct synthesis routes that maximize resource efficiency. The Iberoamerican society is far too significant and far too involved in global development, owing to its natural richness of resources, not to have an essential role in current developments and future directions. Catalysis, in the Iberoamerican academic and industrial communities, is recognized as a relevant scientific discipline that supports several strategic industrial sectors through the manufacturing of products and materials, and the operationalization of processes to produce energy and other utilities. As a reflection of this, once every two years the Iberoamerican Congress on Catalysis takes place to share and discuss the state-of-the-art of this discipline with the Federation of Iberoamerican Catalysis Societies. This book collected sixteen outstanding contributions, stemming from this exceptional event—one which will undoubtedly mark a turning point and could be a source of inspiration to all those involved in catalysis, particularly the young generation of competent researchers taking their first steps in this incredibly complex and beautiful discipline.

History of engineering & technology --- hydrodeoxygenation --- fast-pyrolysis bio-oil --- nickel catalyst --- upgrading --- peptide bond --- phthalonitriles --- phthalocyanines --- aminocarbonylation --- palladium catalysts --- castor oil --- biofuel --- selective transesterification --- ecodiesel --- biodiesel --- diesel engine --- electricity generator --- smoke opacity --- Bacharach opacity --- aldol condensation --- biomass valorization --- Mg/Al mixed oxides --- surfactant --- microwaves --- influence of water --- FAEEs --- mixed biocatalysts --- lipases --- microalgae --- silver nanoparticles --- zirconia --- hydrocarbons --- diesel soot --- catalytic combustion --- boronic esters --- borylation --- Suzuki-Miyaura --- layered double hydroxides --- copper --- palladium --- Fe/Nb2O5 immobilized catalyst --- emerging pollutants --- degradation --- hydrodesulfurization --- CoMo/Al2O3 --- basic additive --- lanthanum --- MCM-41 --- cerium --- benzyl alcohol --- oxidation --- benzaldehyde --- etherification --- glycerol --- tert-butyl alcohol --- dibutyl ether --- A-15 --- catalyst stability --- Cobalt ferrite --- ethylesters --- biofuels --- hydrotalcite --- transesterification --- fast pyrolysis --- SAPO-5 --- Al-MCM-41 --- dodecanoic acid --- photocatalysis --- Mg/Fe layered double hydroxides --- coprecipitation --- chlorophenols --- mixed oxides --- elimination --- phenol --- Al2O3-TiO2 --- CoMo --- CoMoS --- MoS2 --- desulfurization --- chemisorption --- MPI silica --- Ag nanoparticles --- XPS assessment