Microbial Cell Factories in Food Waste Biorefinery

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-0-443-36302-3
Verlag: Elsevier Science

Buch, Englisch, 350 Seiten, Format (B × H): 191 mm x 235 mm

Microbial Cell Factories in Food Waste Biorefinery offers comprehensive knowledge to explore the potential of food waste for various commercial as well as environmental services, including greener fuel production, production of biofertilizers to counter synthetic agro-chemicals, and generation of high-value bioproducts to strengthen waste-based biorefinery. The book provides information, fosters innovation in food waste bio-refineries, and gives insight into ongoing research, limitations, and future trends. It serves as reference material to understand, practice, and promote waste-based sustainable systems to safeguard the environment. The unique aspect of this book is the comprehensive knowledge about different aspects of food waste valorization using microorganisms, including fungi, bacteria, microalgae and its integration with other related technologies for additional economic benefits. The book assesses sustainability of microbial systems for the transformation of wastes, and provides a broad perspective on food-water-energy security and incorporates the latest developments, innovations, challenges, and guidance to implement waste biorefinery and to improve process energetics and economics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mehariya, Sanjeet

Sagar, Narashans Alok

Ahuja, Vishal

Bhatia, Shashi Kant

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Verfahrenstechnik | Chemieingenieurwesen | Biotechnologie Verfahrenstechnik, Chemieingenieurwesen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Food waste generations
2. Food waste collection and characterization: Technologies and challenges
3. Conversion routes and commercial implications
4. Upcycling of food waste
5. High-efficiency food waste fermentation and bio-ethanol production
6. The conversion of food waste to biogas and methane
7. Food waste as a promising source for biohydrogen production
8. Biopolymers production from urban food waste
9. Proteins and enzymes production from food waste: A sustainable route for industrial products
10. Feasibility study to valorize food grain waste as source for bioactive peptides
11. Production of biofertilizers from food waste and its on-field applications
12. Vermicomposting of slow degrading food waste
13. Food waste management by pyrolysis
14. Food waste: Sustainable strategy for circular bioeconomy
15. Techno-economic analysis for process designing
16. Food waste biorefinery: Sustainable developmental goals and regulations

Über Autor(innen)

Sagar, Narashans Alok
Dr. Narashasns Alok Sagar is currently serving as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Biotechnology, University Centre for Research and Development at Chandigarh University in Punjab, India. He possesses expertise in several domains, including Food Microbiology, Secondary Metabolites, Waste Valorization, Molecular Biology, Nanotechnology, and New Product Development. Dr. Sagar published over 40 contributions, encompassing research papers, review articles, book chapters, and popular articles featured in esteemed national and international peer-reviewed journals from reputable publishers.

Bhatia, Shashi Kant
Dr. Shashi Kant Bhatia is an Associate professor in the Department of Biological Engineering, Konkuk University, Seoul, South Korea, and has more than ten years' experience in biowastes valorization into bioenergy, biochemicals, and biomaterials. He holds an MSc and a PhD in biotechnology at Himachal Pradesh University (India). Dr. Bhatia has worked as a Brain Pool Post Doc Fellow at Konkuk University (2014-2016) and has contributed extensively to the industrial press and served as an editorial board member of Sustainability and Energies journal and associate editor of Frontier of Microbiology, Microbial Cell Factories, Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery, Bioprocess and Biosystem Engineering, Carbohydrate Technology and Applications, 3 Biotech, and PLOS One journals. He is editor in Chief of Biotechnology for Sustainable Materials journal. He has published more than 200 research and review articles on industrial biotechnology, bioenergy production, biomaterial, biotransformation, microbial fermentation, and enzyme technology in international scientific peer-reviewed journals and holds 15 international patents. He has also edited 7 books on microbial biotechnology. With more than 12000 citations with an h-index of 60 and an i10 index of 195 (As per Google Scholar), he is included in the top 2% of the Scientist List at Stanford University. Dr. Bhatia has successfully supervised and completed three projects funded by NRF Korea ($ 600, 000).