Overview
- 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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About this book
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.
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Introduction
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Production of Biofuels and Chemicals by Thermo-Chemical Conversion Processes
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Production of Biofuels and Chemicals by Biodegradation
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Production of Liquid Biofuels with New Technologies
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Production of Biofuels and Chemicals from Sustainable Recycling of Organic Solid Waste
Editors: Zhen Fang, Richard L. Smith Jr., Lujiang Xu
Series Title: Biofuels and Biorefineries
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6162-4
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-6161-7Published: 19 May 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-6164-8Published: 20 May 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-6162-4Published: 18 May 2022
Series ISSN: 2214-1537
Series E-ISSN: 2214-1545
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 506
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Biotechnology, Waste Management/Waste Technology, Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering, Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology, Renewable and Green Energy