Recycling of Solid Waste for Biofuels and Bio-chemicals

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Prospects of Biomethanation in Indian Urban Solid Waste: Stepping Towards a Sustainable Future

   • Barkha Vaish, Abhijit Sarkar, Pooja Singh, Prabhat Kumar Singh, Chandan Sengupta, Rajeev Pratap Singh

   Pages 1-29

3. Status and Prospects of Municipal Solid Waste to Energy Technologies in China

   • Suyun Xu, Hongfu He, Liwen Luo

   Pages 31-54

4. GHGs Emissions and Sustainable Solid Waste Management

   • Suthirat Kittipongvises, Chongrak Polprasert

   Pages 55-85

5. Recent Advances of Anaerobic Digestion for Energy Recovery

   • Anthony Y.W. Ma, Billy K.W. Cheung, Katrina C.M. Kwok, Mingwei Cai, Patrick K.H. Lee

   Pages 87-126

6. Anaerobic Digestion of Solid Waste: A Focus on Microbial Community Structures

   • Surakasi V. Prasad, Kalluri K. Meher

   Pages 127-163

7. Recycling of Livestock Manure into Bioenergy

   • Qigui Niu, Yu-You Li

   Pages 165-186

8. Anaerobic Digestion of Palm Oil Mill Residues for Energy Generation

   • Nastaein Qamaruz-Zaman, Nurashikin Yaacof, Hossein Faraji

   Pages 187-210

9. Landfill Bioreactor Technology for Waste Management

   • Martina Di Addario, Bernardo Ruggeri

   Pages 211-235

10. Biotransformation of Nitrogen in Landfills

    • Kurian Joseph, S. Suneethi, S. Sri Shalini

    Pages 237-273

11. Biofuel Production Technology and Engineering

    • Hugo Iván Velázquez-Sánchez, Alexis Saldivar-García, Ricardo Aguilar-López

    Pages 275-299

12. Fast Pyrolysis of Agricultural Wastes for Bio-fuel and Bio-char

    • Suchithra Thangalazhy-Gopakumar, Sushil Adhikari

    Pages 301-332

13. The Energy and Value-Added Products from Pyrolysis of Waste Plastics

    • Rashid Miandad, Mohammad Rehan, Abdul-Sattar Nizami, Mohammad Abou El-Fetouh Barakat, Iqbal Mohammad Ismail

    Pages 333-355

14. Turning Food Waste into Biofuel

    • Wen-Jing Deng

    Pages 357-379

15. Solidification and Stabilization of Tannery Sludge

    • K. Sri Bala Kameswari, Pendem Rohit Babu, B. Lekshmi, Chitra Kalyanaraman

    Pages 381-398

16. Odour Pollution from Waste Recovery Facilities

    • Nastaein Qamaruz-Zaman, Nurashikin Yaacof

    Pages 399-422

This book presents the latest advances in and current research perspectives on the field of urban/industrial solid waste recycling for bio-energy and bio-fuel recovery. It chiefly focuses on five main thematic areas, namely bioreactor landfills coupled with energy and nutrient recovery; microbial insights into anaerobic digestion; greenhouse emission assessment; pyrolysis techniques for special waste treatment; and industrial waste stabilization options. In addition, it compiles the results of case studies and solid waste management perspectives from different countries.  

• Sustainable energy
• Biomass and biofuels
• Anaerobic digestion
• Molecular sequencing
• Bacterial and archaeal community
• Bioreactor Landfills
• Greenhouse Gas Emissions
• Odour compounds
• Leachate Treatments
• carbon and nitrogen recycling
• Plastic and special waste pyrolysis
• solidification and stabilization
• Case studies
• biochemical engineering

• James Cook University, Townsville, Australia

  Obulisamy Parthiba Karthikeyan, Kirsten Heimann

• SGS Hong Kong Limited, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

  Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu

Dr. Obuli Kartik is a senior post-doctoral research fellow at the James Cook University in Australia. His current research is focusing on developing a dual culture system for remediating methane emissions from coal mines. Producing value added products from biomass and waste gas is also given focus in this research project. Other research interests are bio-mining of metals, black shale characterization from marine environment, bacterial community profiling in great barrier reef, etc.

Prof. Kirsten Heimann is the director of the North Queensland Algal Identification/Culturing Facility at JCU, Townsville, Australia, where she leads a microalgal research team focusing on developing microalgae for carbon dioxide and waste water remediation whilst generating valuable co-products.  Her research interests include methane remediation from underground coal mines.

Dr. Subramanian Senthilkannan is currently working for SGS as Environmental Services Manager- Asia, based at Hong Kong. He gained his diploma, bachelors and masters in Textile Technology from premier institutes of India. He was awarded doctorate from The Institute of Textiles and Clothing of The Hong  Kong Polytechnic University for his dissertation entitled,” Eco-functional Assessment of Grocery Shopping Bags” He also has more than seven years of industrial experience in textile manufacturing, testing and sustainability evaluation of textiles and clothing materials. He was an outstanding student throughout his studies and bagged numerous awards and medals including many gold medals in his study period. He has more than 75 academic publications in various textiles and environmental journals to his credit. Additionally he has 2 patents, many books of chapter and over 20 books and numerous conference publications. He is acting as an editor, editorial board member and reviewer for many international peer-reviewed journals of textiles and environmental science disciplines.  He is theeditor-in-chief of Textiles and Clothing Sustainability journal of Springer. Additionally, he is one of the directors of Textile and Bioengineering Informatics Society, (TBIS) which is a charitable organization created to foster, develop and promote all aspects of science and technology in bioengineering of materials, fibers and textiles.

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