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Production of Biofuels and Chemicals from Sustainable Recycling of Organic Solid Waste

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Editors:
  1. Zhen Fang

    1. College of Engineering, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

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  2. Richard L. Smith Jr.

    1. Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

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  3. Lujiang Xu

    1. College of Engineering, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

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  • Covers the sustainable recycling processes for solid organic wastes valorization into value-added chemicals and biofuels
  • Presents new technologies such as heterogeneous catalytic technology, biological technology and photochemical technology
  • Contributed by experts and professionals globally selected

Part of the book series: Biofuels and Biorefineries (BIOBIO, volume 11)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Sustainable Technologies for Recycling Organic Solid Wastes

      • Lujiang Xu, Xianjun Zhou, Chengyu Dong, Zhen Fang, Richard L. Smith Jr
      Pages 3-29

  3. Production of Biofuels and Chemicals by Thermo-Chemical Conversion Processes

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 31-31
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    2. Recent Advances in the Catalytic Co-pyrolysis of Lignocellulosic Biomass and Different Polymer Wastes from Laboratory Scale to Pilot Plant

      • Olga Sanahuja Parejo, A. Veses, A. Sanchís, M. S. Callén, R. Murillo, T. García
      Pages 33-73

    3. Roadmap to Low-Cost Catalytic Pyrolysis of Plastic Wastes for Production of Liquid Fuels

      • Oraléou Sangué Djandja, Dabo Chen, Lin-Xin Yin, Zhi-Cong Wang, Pei-Gao Duan
      Pages 75-100

    4. Production of Valuable Compounds from Leaves by Supercritical CO2 Extraction

      • Takafumi Sato
      Pages 101-131

  4. Production of Biofuels and Chemicals by Biodegradation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 133-133
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    2. Recovery of Biohydrogen and Biomethane by Anaerobic Fermentation of Organic Solid Waste

      • Yu Qin, Aijun Zhu, Yu-You Li
      Pages 135-171

    3. Recycling of Multiple Organic Solid Wastes into Biogas via Anaerobic Digestion

      • Nima Hajinajaf, Manali Das, Pradipta Patra, Amit Ghosh, Arul M. Varman
      Pages 173-204

    4. Recycling of Multiple Organic Solid Wastes into Chemicals via Biodegradation

      • Trevor J. Shoaf, Abigail S. Engelberth
      Pages 205-242

  5. Production of Liquid Biofuels with New Technologies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 243-243
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    2. Producing Value-Added Products from Organic Bioresources via Photo-BioCatalytic Processes

      • Silvia Magri, David Cannella
      Pages 245-282

    3. Depolymerisation of Fossil Fuel and Biomass-derived Polyesters

      • Guido Grause
      Pages 283-316

    4. Producing Value-added Products from Organic Solid Wastes with Mechanochemical Processes

      • Haixin Guo, Xiao Zhang, Feng Shen
      Pages 317-338

    5. Fundamentals of Hydrothermal Processing of Biomass-Related Molecules for Converting Organic Solid Wastes into Chemical Products

      • Taku Michael Aida
      Pages 339-372

    6. Third Generation Biorefineries Using Micro- and Macro-Algae

      • Rohit Saxena, Gilver Rosero-Chasoy, Elizabeth Aparicio, Abraham Lara, Araceli Loredo, Armando Robledo et al.
      Pages 373-411

  6. Techno-Economic Analysis

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 413-413
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    2. Prospects and Perspectives for Producing Biodiesel, Bioethanol and Bio-Chemicals from Fruit Waste: Case Studies in Brazil and Serbia

      • Danijela Stanisić, Marija Tasić, Olivera Stamenković, Ljubica Tasić
      Pages 415-452

    3. Sustainable Recycling and Valorization of Organic Solid Wastes for Fuels and Fertilizers

      • Lijun Wang, Bahare Salehi, Bo Zhang
      Pages 453-485
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About this book

This book covers sustainable recycling processes (e.g. physical, biological, chemical, and thermo-chemical) of multiple organic solid wastes, provides methods for material recycle of wastes into value-added products including fuels and commodity chemicals that are able to be directly applied to promote manufacturing processes. 

Aimed at improving the awareness of effective conversion protocols and for developing innovative biomass conversion processes, this text was conceived as a collection of studies on state-of-art techniques and know-how for production of biofuels and chemicals from sustainable recycling of organic solid wastes.  Topics in the text are discussed in terms of addressing recent advances, assessing and highlighting promising new methods or new technological strategies and direct conversion of organic solid wastes to process feeds. Highly-recognized authorities, experts and professionals have contributed individual chapters in selected areas to cover the overall topic in a comprehensive manner.  



Editors and Affiliations

  • College of Engineering, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

    Zhen Fang, Lujiang Xu

  • Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

    Richard L. Smith Jr.

About the editors

Zhen Fang is a Professor and Leader of the Biomass Group at Nanjing Agricultural University. He is the inventor of the “fast hydrolysis” process, the elected fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering. Professor Fang specializes in thermal/biochemical conversion of biomass, nanocatalyst synthesis and their applications, pretreatment of biomass for biorefineries, and supercritical fluid processes. He holds Ph.D.s from China Agricultural University and McGill University. Professor Fang is Associate Editor of the international journals, Biotechnology for Biofuels and Journal of Renewable Materials.  He has more than 20 years of research experience in the field of renewable energy and green technologies at top universities and institutes around the globe, including 1 year in Spain (University of Zaragoza), 3 years in Japan (Biomass Technology Research Center, AIST; Tohoku University), and more than 8 years in Canada (McGill) in renewable energy and green technologies. 



Richard L. Smith, Jr. is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Research Center of Supercritical Fluid Technology, Tohoku University, Japan. He has a strong background in physical properties and separations and holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology (USA). His research focuses on developing green chemical processes, especially those that use water and carbon dioxide as the solvents in their supercritical state. He is an expert on physical property measurements and separation techniques with ionic liquids, and has published more than 270 scientific papers, patents and reports in the field of chemical engineering. Professor Smith is the Asia regional editor for the Journal of Supercritical Fluids and has served on the editorial boards of major international journals. 


Lujiang Xu is an associate professor in the Biomass Group at Nanjing Agricultural University, College of Engineering. He holds a Ph.D. in Renewable and Clean Energy from the Department of Chemistry of University of Science and Technology of China and a B.S. in Light Chemical Engineering from Nanjing Forestry University. His research focuses on the selective thermo-chemical conversion of biomass and derived compounds into value-added chemicals and liquid fuels.  


 

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