Biovalorisation of Wastes to Renewable Chemicals and Biofuels

Biovalorization of Wastes to Renewable Chemicals and Biofuels addresses advanced technologies for converting waste to biofuels, pharmaceuticals, organic acids, amino acids, vitamins, biopolymers, surfactants, detergents, and enzymes. Biovalorization has several advantages over conventional bioremediation processes as it helps cutting down the costs of bioprocesses. Examples are provided of several successfully commercialized technologies, giving an insight in developing potential processes for converting waste to biofuels and value-added products. Furthermore, the book discusses how to improve microbes or enzymes using protein engineering, metabolic engineering, and systems biology approaches for converting waste to value-added products, and using extremophiles for degrading the recalcitrant biomass at better rates and at lower costs. Finally, the book discusses the development of valorisation processes for converting crew waste to bioenergy. Biovalorization of Wastes to Renewable Chemicals and Biofuels can be used as course material for graduate students in chemical engineering, chemistry, and biotechnology, and as reference for industrials/researchers who want to gain basic understanding about the subject. Covers a wide range of topics from conversion of wastes to organic acids, biofuels, biopolymers, and industrially relevant productsBridges the gap between academics and industryWritten in a lucid and self-explanatory styleIncludes activities/quiz/critical questions INDICE: 1. Rewiring Anaerobic microbial processes for methane and hythane production2. Extremophilic bioprocessing of wastes to biofuels3. Reverse methanogenesis of methane to biopolymers and value-added Products4. Gas to liquid biofuels5. Cyanobacterial Biofertilizers from agricultural biomass6. Extremozymes for increased rates of degradation of wastes and synthesis of value-added products7. Protein engineering approaches to improve the enzymatic catalysis8. Synthetic biology approaches for improved biomanufacturing9. Photobioelectrochemical synthesis of biochemical compounds from sunlight10. Bioelectrochemical systems for wastes to bioenergy and chemicals11. Bioelectrosynthesis for synthesis of value-added compounds with improved electrodes and electrode functionalization strategies12. Membrane separation technologies for purification of enzymes, value added compounds, and organic acids/amino acids13. Electrochemical methods for downstream processing14. Converting the Crew wastes to bioenergy at microgravity conditions

• ISBN: 978-0-12-817951-2
• Editorial: Elsevier
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 262
• Fecha Publicación: 01/10/2019
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés