Scilight Press

Aim

Resource Valorization Technologies (RVT) is an international peer-reviewed, gold open access journal. It aims to provide a leading international platform for disseminating cutting-edge research, technological innovations, and practical applications that transform waste, residues, underutilized resources, and earth-abundant feedstocks into sustainable materials, chemicals, energy, and high-value products. By bridging fundamental science and engineering innovation with practical applications, this journal fosters sustainable solutions that advance resilient circular economy, environmental remediation, green chemical manufacturing, and reduce reliance on carbon-intensive, centralized chemical synthesis pathways. It is published quarterly online by Scilight Press.

Scope

The journal welcomes high-quality contributions addressing a broad range of topics across the following domains:

• Waste-to-Resource Conversion: innovative processes for valorizing solid waste, biomass, plastics, agricultural residues and industrial by-products.
• Earth-Abundant Feedstock Transformation: Thermochemical, electrochemical, and catalytic conversion of abundant natural resources (e.g., silicates, clays, sand, sulfur, and common minerals as well as nitrogen, oxygen, and water etc.) into high-value chemicals, advanced functional materials, and industrial precursors.
• Carbon Capture & Utilization (CCU): Chemical, electrochemical, photochemical, and biological fixation of CO₂ into valuable fuels, platform chemicals, polymers, and mineralized matrices.
• Advanced Valorization Technologies: catalytic, photocatalytic, electrochemical, and biotechnological methods for resource recovery and valorization.
• Circular Economy Integration: strategies linking valorization technologies with sustainable production and consumption systems.
• Environmental Remediation: approaches that couple pollution control with resource recovery, including water, soil, and air treatment.
• Materials Innovation: design of functional materials (membranes, adsorbents, catalysts, nanomaterials) for selective separation and conversion.
• Energy & Resource Efficiency: valorization pathways contributing to renewable energy, carbon neutrality, and green manufacturing.
• Techno-Economic Assessment & Industrial Applications: High-quality Techno-Economic Analysis (TEA) and Life Cycle Assessments (LCA), and case studies of real-world implementation.