Transformation of Solid Waste to Energy

Methods, Challenges, and Opportunities

Balasubramani Ravindran, Sartaj Ahmad Bhat, Gareth Griffiths

• Publisher: Woodhead Publishing
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN:
  9780443292767
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Energy

Transformation of Solid Waste to Energy: Methods, Challenges and Opportunities brings together the latest developments, technologies, and approaches surrounding the transformation of organic waste into energy, enabling the reader to tackle head-on the challenges of valorizing waste as bioenergy. Sections introduce biomass as a sustainable renewable energy source, conversion processes, and possible energy recovery routes, before in-depth chapters highlight technologies for solid waste. Types of waste streams, conversion technologies, and sustainable development issues are considered, along with case studies.The second part focuses on liquid waste, notably covering wastewater treatment and energy recovery, the production of biofuels, and microbial fuel cells. This new volume in the Woodhead Series in Bioenergy is of interest to all those with an interest in waste-to-energy, bioenergy, waste management, chemical engineering, and sustainability, including researchers, advanced students, faculty, engineers, scientists, R&D, industrial practitioners, and policymakers. - Covers the transformation of solid and liquid wastes into bioenergy, which is of great interest in the energy transition - Builds on sustainable development principles in adding value to organic waste streams - Considers key challenges and solutions, current trends, and future opportunities

Table of contents

• Title of Book
• Chapter 1. Biomass as a sustainable and renewable energy source: Conversion processes and potential energy recovery routes for electrochemical energy storage
• Chapter 2. Thermochemical approaches for energy generation from biomass
• Chapter 3. Transforming food waste into bioenergy: Progress and prospects
• Chapter 4. Organic waste types, characteristics, quantities, and potential resource components
• Chapter 5. Waste-to-energy technologies: Principles, processes, and efficiency
• Chapter 6. Case studies related to waste-to-energy: Positive impact upon implementation
• Chapter 7. Latest developments and emerging trends in waste-to-energy conversion: Innovations and technologies
• Chapter 8. Conversion of livestock waste to energy: New technological transformation for energy recovery
• Chapter 9. Technologies converting municipal solid waste to energy: Recent trends and prospects
• Chapter 10. Transformation of plastics into carbon nanostructures for energy recovery
• Chapter 11. Characterization of Delonix regia stem waste soot: An investigation within the framework of waste-to-energy transformation
• Chapter 12. Livestock residue as nonpareil bioenergy resource: Recent technological valorization for clean energy recovery
• Chapter 13. Bio-enhancers are potential source to convert biowaste into valuable compost
• Chapter 14. Biochar derived from agricultural waste is a potential source of biofuel
• Chapter 15. Organic agriculture: Implementation of earthworm-based eco-friendly process for converting solid waste into organic biofertilizer
• Index