Current Developments in Biotechnology and Bioengineering
Sustainable Food Waste Management: Resource Recovery and Treatment

Provides a comprehensive account of food waste chemistry and its utilization as a resource for generating value-added products

Jonathan Wong (Edited by), Guneet Kaur (Edited by), Mohammad Taherzadeh (Edited by), Ashok Pandey (Edited by), Katia Lasaridi (Edited by)

9780128191484

Paperback, published 27 November 2020

446 pages
23.4 x 19 x 2.8 cm, 0.97 kg

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.

1. Food waste and sustainable management technologies: An introduction 2. Food waste properties and chemistry 3. Food waste generation and collection 4. Closing the food chain loop through waste prevention and recovery 5. Bioconversion technologies: Food Waste Composting: Challenges and Possible Approaches 6. Bioconversion technologies: Anaerobic digestion of food waste 7. Microbial conversion of food waste: volatile fatty acids platform 8. Bioconversion technologies: Insect and worm farming 9. Bioconversion Technologies: Hydrolytic Enzyme Treatment of Food Waste 10. Bio-products from food waste 11. Conversion of food waste to animal feeds 12. Gasification and pyrolysis of food waste 13. Emerging technologies for treatment of food waste 14. Food waste policy 15. Life-cycle assessment and sustainability assessment of food waste utilization

Subject Areas: Biochemical engineering [TC]