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Current Developments in Biotechnology and Bioengineering
Sustainable Food Waste Management: Resource Recovery and Treatment
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- English
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eBook - ePub
Current Developments in Biotechnology and Bioengineering
Sustainable Food Waste Management: Resource Recovery and Treatment
About this book
Current Developments in Biotechnology and Bioengineering: Sustainable Food Waste Management: Resource Recovery and Treatment covers the latest methods of food waste management and resource recovery from a sustainability perspective and is suitable for universities, municipalities, and companies working in the field. This book provides a comprehensive account of food waste chemistry, the latest techniques for food waste treatment and recycling, sustainability assessment (social, economic, environmental), and challenges in food waste management. The book explores recycling to value-added products using sustainable concepts and methodologies, and is useful as a course or reference book for biochemical engineering, environmental sustainability, and waste management.
- Covers recycling to value-added products using sustainable concepts and methodologies
- Provides an exhaustive description of general treatment options and their evaluation guidelines in terms of cost, energy consumption, and waste generation, enabling readers to understand the principles behind various recovery and treatment schemes
- Describes existing and emerging food waste recycling technologies, products obtained, and process efficiencies
- Offers a thorough account of critical factors and challenges in food waste valorization, such as handling of new emerging contaminants, end-product purity, and life-cycle assessment
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Table of contents
- Title of Book
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Chapter One Sustainable Food Waste Management: An Introduction
- Chapter Two Food Waste Properties
- Chapter Three Food Waste Generation and Collection
- Chapter Four Closing the Food Chain Loop Through Waste Prevention
- Chapter Five Food Waste Composting: Challenges and Possible Approaches
- Chapter Six Bioconversion Technologies: Anaerobic Digestion of Food Waste
- Chapter Seven Microbial Conversion of Food Waste: Volatile Fatty Acids Platform
- Chapter Eight Bioconversion Technologies: Insect and Worm Farming
- Chapter Nine Bioconversion Technologies: Hydrolytic Enzyme Treatment of Food Waste
- Chapter Ten Bioproducts From Food Waste
- Chapter Eleven Conversion of Food Waste to Animal Feeds
- Chapter Twelve Pyrolysis and Gasification of Food Waste
- Chapter Thirteen Emerging Technologies for the Treatment of Food Waste
- Chapter Fourteen Food Waste Policy
- Chapter Fifteen Life-Cycle Assessment and Sustainability Aspects of Food Waste
- Index
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Yes, you can access Current Developments in Biotechnology and Bioengineering by Jonathan Wong,Guneet Kaur,Mohammad Taherzadeh,Ashok Pandey,Katia Lasaridi in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Technology & Engineering & Chemical & Biochemical Engineering. We have over 1.5 million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.