Transformation of Liquid Waste to Energy

Methods, Challenges, and Opportunities

Balasubramani Ravindran, Sartaj Ahmad Bhat, Gareth Griffiths

• Publisher: Woodhead Publishing
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN:
  9780443336843
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Energy

Transformation of Liquid Waste to Energy: Methods, Challenges and Opportunities brings together the latest developments, technologies, and approaches for the transformation of organic waste into energy, enabling the reader to tackle head-on the challenges of valorizing waste as bioenergy. The book focuses on liquid waste, notably covering wastewater treatment and energy recovery, the production of biofuels, and microbial fuel cells, as well as high-rate anaerobic processes and utilization of municipal/industrial wastewater for energy recovery. Each chapter presents the latest developments in transforming different types of liquid waste into bioenergy and discusses conventional methods alongside novel and emerging technologies.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.• Discusses the transformation of a broad range of liquid waste feedstocks• Focuses on emerging technologies, global perspectives, practical case studies, interdisciplinary insights, and alignment with sustainable development goals• Presents case studies showcasing successful waste to energy projects, providing valuable insights into the implementation of waste transformation technologies

Table of contents

• Title of Book
• Chapter 1. Recent developments of high-rate anaerobic processes for wastewater treatment and energy recovery (biomethane and biohydrogen)
• Chapter 2. Utilization of municipal wastewater for energy recovery
• Chapter 3. Microbial fuel cells for energy generation: Current progress and future perspectives
• Chapter 4. Recent advances in algal cultivations as feedstock for renewable energy production toward a circular economy
• Chapter 5. Biodiesel production from waste cooking oil
• Chapter 6. Wastewater treatment and sustainable energy production through microalgae: An integrated approach
• Chapter 7. Marine microbes: A potential source for the conversion of agricultural waste into ethanol through fermentation
• Chapter 8. Development of microbial fuel cells for green energy production and environmental applications: Challenges and future outlook
• Chapter 9. From farm to bytes: Sustainable strategies to manage new age wastes
• Chapter 10. A review of advancement in artificial neural network–constituted cavitation-assisted strategies for the synthesis of biodiesel and the significance of different saturated and unsaturated fatty acids in the final product
• Chapter 11. Strategical tactics on sewage sludge handling: Sustainable treatment practices, characterization, energy recovery, and reuse applications
• Chapter 12. Beyond recycling: Exploring the benefits and challenges of source reduction and green manufacturing for sustainable production
• Chapter 13. Environmental impact assessment of liquid waste-to-energy technologies and their future perspectives
• Chapter 14. Dark fermentation for biohydrogen and bioethanol production
• Index