Biomass & Bioenergy is an international journal publishing original research papers and short communications, review articles and case studies on biological resources, chemical and biological processes, and biomass products for new renewable sources of energy and materials.
The scope of the journal extends to the environmental, management and economic aspects of biomass and bioenergy.

Key areas covered by the journal:
• Biomass: sources, energy crop production processes, genetic improvements, composition. Please note that research on these biomass subjects must be linked directly to bioenergy generation.
• Biological Residues: residues/rests from agricultural production, forestry and plantations (palm, sugar etc), processing industries, and municipal sources (MSW). Papers on the use of biomass residues through innovative processes/technological novelty and/or consideration of feedstock/system sustainability (or unsustainability) are welcomed. However waste treatment processes and pollution control or mitigation which are only tangentially related to bioenergy are not in the scope of the journal, as they are more suited to publications in the environmental arena. Papers that describe conventional waste streams (ie well described in existing literature) that do not empirically address 'new' added value from the process are not suitable for submission to the journal.
• Bioenergy Processes: fermentations, thermochemical conversions, liquid and gaseous fuels, and petrochemical substitutes
• Bioenergy Utilization: direct combustion, gasification, electricity production, chemical processes, and by-product remediation
• Biomass and the Environment: carbon cycle, the net energy efficiency of bioenergy systems, assessment of sustainability, and biodiversity issues.

The journal does not consider papers on the following subjects:
• Performance of fuel combustion in engines
• Technical aspects of first generation biofuels
• Soil science papers with no direct linking to bioenergy generation
• Isolation of yeast/bacterial strains
• Purely analytical biochemistry derived studies that have no direct linking to bioenergy generation

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This journal welcomes contributions that support and advance the UN's sustainable development goals, in particular SDG 7 (Affordable and clean energy) and SDG 13 (Climate Action)

original studies
shorter technical notes 
short communications
state-of-the-art reviews
topical reports

Editor-in-Chief
Patricia Thornley
Patricia Thornley
Aston University School of Engineering and Applied Science, Birmingham, United Kingdom Email Patricia Thornley
Managing Editor
Jon Paul McCalmont
Jon Paul McCalmont
University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom Email Jon Paul McCalmont
Associate Editors
Manuel Garcia Perez
Manuel Garcia Perez
Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States
Walter Haslinger
Walter Haslinger
Bioenergy 2020+ GmbH, Graz, Austria
Wiebren de Jong
Wiebren de Jong
TU Delft, Delft, Netherlands
Yan Liu
Yan Liu
Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States
Solange Mussatto
Solange Mussatto
Technical University of Denmark, Kongens(Kgs) Lyngby, Denmark
Marty Schmer
Marty Schmer
USDA-ARS Agroecosystem Management Research Unit, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States
International Editorial Board
Purushothaman Abhilash
Purushothaman Abhilash
Banaras Hindu University Institute of Environment & Sustainable Development, Varanasi, India
Marco Baratieri
Marco Baratieri
Free University of Bolzano, Italy
Tony Bridgewater
Tony Bridgewater
Aston University School of Engineering and Applied Science, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Enrico Ceotto
Enrico Ceotto
Research Centre for Industrial Farming, Bologna, Italy
David Chiaramonti
David Chiaramonti
University of Florence, Firenze, Italy
Rosana Goldbeck
Rosana Goldbeck
University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas,, São Paulo, Brazil
Michael. R. Ladisch
Purdue University Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States
Wei Liao
Michigan State University Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, East Lansing, Michigan, United States
Yukihiko Matsumura
Hiroshima University, Higashihiroshima, Japan
Andrea Monti
University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
I. Obernberger
I. Obernberger
Technical University Graz Institute of Chemical Engineering and Environmental Technology, Graz, Austria
Ralph Overend
Ralph Overend
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Colorado, USA
Wolter Prins
Ghent University Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Gent, Belgium
Lasse Rosendahl
Aalborg University Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg, Denmark
Fernando Rubiera
Fernando Rubiera
National Institute of the Coal, Oviedo, Spain
Guofeng Shen
Guofeng Shen
Peking University College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Beijing, China
Raffaele Spinelli
Raffaele Spinelli
Tree and timber institute National Research Council, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
Timothy Volk
SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, New York, United States