Overview
- Concise biotechnology reference book
- Agricultural waste utilisation
- Agri-industrial residue bioconversion
- Bio-products from agricultural wastes
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Table of contents (24 chapters)
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Production of Industrial Products Using Agro-Industrial Residues as Substrates
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Biotechnological Potential of Agro-Industrial Residues for Bioprocesses
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About this book
Residues from agriculture and the food industry consist of many and varied wastes, in total accounting for over 250 million tonnes of waste per year in the UK alone. Biotechnological processing of these residues would allow these waste products to be used as a resource, with tremendous potential. An extensive range of valuable and usable products can be recovered from what was previously considered waste: including fuels, feeds and pharmaceutical products. In this way Biotechnology can offer many viable alternatives to the disposal of agricultural waste, producing several new products in the process.
This book presents up-to-date information on a biotechnology approach for the utilisation of agro-industrial residues, presenting chapters with detailed information on materials and bioconversion technology to obtain products of economic importance:
- The production of industrial products using agro-industrial residues as substrates
- The biotechnological potential of agro-industrial residues for bioprocesses
- Enzymes degrading agro-industrial residues and their production
- Bioconversion of agro-industrial residues.
Written by experts in Biotechnological processing of Agro-Industrial Residues, this book will provide useful information for academic researchers and industry scientists working in biotechnology, waste management, agriculture and the food industry.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Biotechnology for Agro-Industrial Residues Utilisation
Book Subtitle: Utilisation of Agro-Residues
Editors: Poonam Nigam, Ashok Pandey
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9942-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-9941-0Published: 26 June 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-8936-4Published: 11 September 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-9942-7Published: 19 May 2009
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 466
Topics: Biomedicine general, Biotechnology, Applied Microbiology, Life Sciences, general