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Zero Waste Biorefinery

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  • Compilation of recent research advancements and innovative methods in the field of waste conversion
  • Explores the scope of biofuel, energy, high-value biochemicals synthesis from different waste sources
  • Readers would obtain a holistic view of waste biorefineries- from concept to recent advancements

Part of the book series: Energy, Environment, and Sustainability (ENENSU)

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. General

  2. Algal Biorefinery

  3. Municipal Solid Waste Biorefinery

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About this book

This book is a compilation of process, technologies and value added products such as high value biochemicals and biofuels produced from different waste biorefineries. The book is sectioned into four categories providing a comprehensive outlook about zero waste biorefinery and technologies associated with it. The emerging technologies that potentially put back the lignocellulosic waste, municipal solid waste and food waste into intrinsic recycling for production of high value biochemicals and bioenergy, along with associated challenges and opportunities are also included. The content also focuses on algal biorefineries leading to sustainable circular economy through production of broad spectrum of bioactive compounds, bioethanol, biobutanol, biohydrogen, biodiesel through integrated biorefinery approach. The volume also includes chapters on conversion technologies and mathematical models applied for process optimization. A sound foundation about the underlying principles ofbiorefineries and a up-to-date state-of-the-art based overview on the latest advances in terms of scientific knowledge, techno-economic developments and life cycle assessment methodologies of integrated waste biorefinery is provided. This volume will be of great interest to professionals, post-graduate students and policy makers involved in waste management, biorefineries, circular economy and sustainable development.



Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Environmental Science and Technology, Central University of Punjab, Bathinda, India

    Yogalakshmi Kadapakkam Nandabalan, Vinod Kumar Garg

  • ERMD Division, NEERI, Nagpur, India

    Nitin K. Labhsetwar

  • Department of Environmental Sciences, Central University of Jammu, Samba, India

    Anita Singh

About the editors

Dr. Yogalakshmi Kadapakkam Nandabalan is currently working at Central University of Punjab, as Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Technology. She holds a Master’s and Ph.D. degree in Environmental Science from Anna University, Chennai, India. She has about 12 years of teaching and research experience. Her areas of research interest include water and wastewater management, energy generation from waste and wastewater, solid waste management, and nanobioremediation. She has authored around 15 book chapters and 40 research and review articles in peer-reviewed, high-impact factor journals. She has developed a number of e-content modules. She has completed three sponsored research projects funded by various agencies as Principal Investigator. She is a member of several professional and scientific bodies.

Prof. Vinod Kumar Garg is presently working as Professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Technology, Central University of Punjab, India.He is a well-rounded researcher with over 30 years of experience in leading, supervising, and undertaking research in the broad field of solid and hazardous waste management. His research group is working on water and wastewater pollution monitoring and abatement, solid waste management, pesticide degradation, and heavy metal detoxification. He has published more than 200 research and review articles, 22 proceedings, and 6 editorials in peer-reviewed journals of international and national repute with more than citations 12000 and h-index 57. In addition, he has published 2 books and 12 book chapters and completed 10 sponsored research projects as Principal Investigator funded by various agencies and departments. He is an active member of various scientific societies and organizations including, the Biotech Research Society of India, the Indian Nuclear Society, etc.

Dr. Nitin K. Labhsetwar is a Ph.D. with over 34 years of research experience in environmental and energy-related research. He has been actively working on cleaner energy generation including photocatalytic hydrogen generation, bioenergy, carbon capture, chemical looping combustion, CO2 reforming, automobile emission control and rural energy (development and deployment of improved biomass cook stoves), etc. He has worked as STA/JSPS Fellow and Visiting Overseas Researcher at NIMS, Tsukuba, Japan, and as Visiting Professor at Kyushu University, Japan, under the Global COE Program on Novel Carbon Resource Sciences. He has over 170 research publications with over 6800 citations and 22 international patents and 8 design registrations in addition to a few contributions in books. He has so far contributed to more than 75 R&D projects.

Dr. Anita Singh is working as Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences, Central University of Jammu, India. She has over 8 years of teaching and research experience. Dr. Singh pursued her Ph.D. on bioethanol production from lignocellulosic biomassfrom Guru Jambheshwar University of Science & Technology, India. Her post-doctoral research was at the University of Georgia, USA, on selective removal of inhibitors from lignocellulosic biomass. She has published 40 research papers in international and national journals and 6 book chapters in various edited books. She has guided 33 master’s dissertation and is currently supervising 4 Ph.D. students. She was awarded CSIR-SRF and CSIR-RA fellowships for research during Ph.D. and UGC Raman Post-doctoral Fellowship for doing research in the USA. She is working in the field of biofuel production and value-added product production from lignocellulosic biomass.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Zero Waste Biorefinery

  • Editors: Yogalakshmi Kadapakkam Nandabalan, Vinod Kumar Garg, Nitin K. Labhsetwar, Anita Singh

  • Series Title: Energy, Environment, and Sustainability

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-8682-5

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-8681-8Published: 12 January 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-8684-9Published: 13 January 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-8682-5Published: 12 January 2022

  • Series ISSN: 2522-8366

  • Series E-ISSN: 2522-8374

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 591

  • Number of Illustrations: 54 b/w illustrations, 77 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Waste Management/Waste Technology

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