Sustainable Bio-based Processes

The increasing awareness of environmental issues and climate protection has led to increasingly more sustainable approaches within industrial processes. Bio-based compounds are a key element within the resulting transition towards a circular bio-economy. Increased drive for sustainable products and technologies, enhanced customer specifications, new performance requirements and the ground-breaking integration of mass data technologies is creating a vibrant and evolving landscape of challenges and opportunities.

Mathematical analysis and information technology to optimize bio-based processes in chemical industries could provide a significant impact in problem-solving. Such tools and measures are already widely used in various applications of the chemical engineering field including modelling, process control, classification, fault detection and diagnosis. But these options show also promising applications in new bio-based areas including material design such as e.g., catalysts, nanostructures, pharmaceuticals, additives, and bio-based composites. Also, these tools can used to integrate physical models and computational techniques for autonomous molecular design in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries especially in the manufacturing of soft bio-inspired materials.

The focus of this thematic issue is on original research papers with novel findings and new results meetings highest scientific standards in the area of sustainable bio-based processes. Review papers are only accepted are typically rejected. They are only exceptionally accepted if they are tackling a clearly new question and / or providing new and in-depth insights into a very specific topic.

All manuscripts submitted to this thematic issue will go through the stringent peer review process of the journal, and only those that are accepted after peer review will be published. The manuscripts have to be prepared strictly following the guidelines of the journal; otherwise, they will be rejected. Please check the instructions to authors and the guidelines for submission. Please also have a closer look at the rules related to self-citation as well as plagiarism.

Themes include but not restricted to:

• Bio-surfactants, Green and Eco-friendly Detergent, Cleaners and Paints

• Catalysis and Reaction Engineering

• Colloidal and Interfacial Phenomena

• Composite and Smart Materials

• Process Design

• Digitization and Automation in Process Industries

• Effluent treatment in Process Industries

• Green Chemistry and Technologies

• Utilization of Bio-Plastics

• Wastewater Treatment using Biomaterials