About this journal

Current energy systems need a vast transformation to meet the key demands of the 21st century: reduced environmental impact, economic viability and efficiency. An essential part of this energy revolution is bioenergy.

The movement towards widespread implementation of first generation biofuels is still in its infancy, requiring continued evaluation and improvement to be fully realised. Problems with current bioenergy strategies, for example competition over land use for food crops, do not yet have satisfactory solutions. The second generation of biofuels, based around cellulosic ethanol, are now in development and are opening up new possibilities for future energy generation. Recent advances in genetics have pioneered research into designer fuels and sources such as algae have been revealed as untapped bioenergy resources.

As global energy requirements change and grow, it is crucial that all aspects of the bioenergy production process are streamlined and improved, from the design of more efficient biorefineries to research into biohydrogen as an energy carrier. Current energy infrastructures need to be adapted and changed to fulfil the promises of biomass for power generation.

Biofuels provides a forum for all stakeholders in the bioenergy sector, featuring review articles, original research, commentaries, news, research and development spotlights, interviews with key opinion leaders and much more, with a view to establishing an international community of bioenergy communication.

As biofuel research continues at an unprecedented rate, the development of new feedstocks and improvements in bioenergy production processes provide the key to the transformation of biomass into a global energy resource. With the twin threats of climate change and depleted fossil fuel reserves looming, it is vitally important that research communities are mobilized to fully realize the potential of bioenergy. Biofuels accepts the following types of article: original articles.

Articles published in Biofuels cover key areas in the development of bioenergy, such as:

• Sustainable production of annual, perennial and wood feedstocks from agriculture
• Creation of new biomass feedstocks in laboratories
• Biochemical conversion techniques
• Fermentation, anaerobic digestion and enzyme development
• Thermochemical conversion techniques
• Biocatalyst development, gasification and pyrolysis plants
• Bioenergy systems and plant engineering
• Conversion of biomass into heat, electricity and biohydrogen
• Storage and transportation of biomass during manufacture
• Implementation, improved efficiency and reduced environmental impact of first generation biofuels, including ethanol and biodiesel
• New bioenergy sources: algae, genetically engineered fuels, and biochemical carbon dioxide conversion
• Policy, management and communication to establish a global bioenergy market

Please note that this journal only publishes manuscripts in English.

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Editor-in-Chief
Marc A. Rosen, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada
marc.rosen [at] ontariotechu.ca

Senior Editor
Yusuf Chisti, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Malaysia

Associate Editors
Michael Hahn, University of Georgia, USA
Rajendran Silambarasan, Annapoorana Engineering College, Salem, Tamil Nadu, India

Editorial Advisory Board
Michael Adams, University of Georgia, USA
Abdulaziz Atabani,Erciyes University,Turkey
Bruce Babcock, Iowa State University, USA
Rob Bailis, Yale University, USA
Phillip Brumm, C5-6 Technologies, USA
Nicholas Carpita, Purdue University, USA
Shulin Chen, Washington State University, USA
David Chiaramonti, University of Florence, Italy
James Dumesic, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Geraint Evans, National Non Food Crops Centre, UK
André Faaij, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Benoît Gabrielle, INRA/ AgroParisTech, France
Baskar Gurunathan, St. Joseph’s College of Engineering, India
Pradipta Halder, University of Eastern Finland, Finland
J Richard Hess, Idaho National Laboratory, USA
Hermann Hofbauer, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
César Izaurralde, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
Mejdi Jeguirim, Université de Haute-Alsace, Mulhouse, France
Martin Kaltschmitt, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany
Fikret Kargi, Dokuz Eylul University, Turkey
William Kenealy, Mascoma, USA
P. Senthil Kumar, Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering, Chennai, India
Peter Lindblad, Uppsala University, Sweden
Dehua Liu, Tsinghua University, China
Hong Liu, Oregon State University, USA
Tryg Lundquist, California Polytechnic State University, USA
Bo Mattiasson, Lund University, Sweden
Stephen Mayfield, Scripps Research Institute, USA
Nigel Mortimer, North Energy Associates Ltd, UK
Jack D. Newman, Amyris, USA
Deborah O'Connell, CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems, Australia
Eleftherios Papoutsakis, Delaware Biotechnology Institute, USA
Arthur Ragauskas, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Tom Richard, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Jack Saddler, University of British Columbia, Canada
R. Silambarasan, Annapoorana Engineering College, Salem, Tamil Nadu, India
Blake Simmons, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Alison Smith, University of Cambridge, UK
Gregory Stephanopoulos, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Neal Stewart, University of Tennessee, USA
Gail Taylor, University of Southampton, UK
Ping Wang, University of Minnesota, USA
Paul Williams, University of Leeds, UK
Bin Yang, Washington State University, USA
Qu Yinbo, Shandong University, China
Anastasia Zabaniotou, University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Wei Zhang, Flinders University, Australia