Current Developments in Biotechnology and Bioengineering: Solid Waste Management

Current Developments in Biotechnology and Bioengineering: Solid Waste Management provides extensive coverage of new developments, state-of-the-art technologies, and potential future trends, reviewing the latest innovative developments in environmental biotechnology and bioengineering as they pertain to solid wastes, also revealing current research priority areas in solid waste treatment and management.

The fate of solid wastes can be divided into three major areas, recycling, energy recovery, and safe disposal. From this foundation, the book covers such key areas as biotechnological production of value added products from solid waste, bioenergy production from various organic solid wastes, and biotechnological solutions for safe, environmentally-friendly treatment and disposal. The state of the art situation, potential advantages, and limitations are discussed, along with proposed strategies on how to overcome limitations.

Reviews available bioprocesses for the production of bioproducts from solid wasteOutlines processes for the production of energy from solid waste using biochemical conversion processesLists various environmentally friendly treatments of solid waste and its safe disposal

Section I. Bioproducts from Solid Wastes 1. Bioplastic for organic waste collection 2. Value added bioproducts from sewage sludge 3. Biopesticides production from solid wastes 4. Composting of organic wastes recycling 5. Vermitechnology for organic waste recycling 6. Biochar production and microbial interactions

Section II. Bioenergy from Solid Wastes 7. Anaerobic digestion of organic wastes 8. Biohydrogen from organic waste and biomas 9. Bioethanol production form agricultural wastes 10. Microbial fuel cells 11. Biotechnology for agricultural waste recycling

Section III. Environmental Protection & Waste Treatment 12. Metal and nutrient removal from Sewage sludge 13. Degradation of organic pollutants in biosolids 14. Biotechnology for management of plastic waste 15. Biological treatment of hazardous wastes 16. Biological methods of odour removal in waste treatment facilities 17. Biotechnological approaches in sludge dewatering 18. Landfill leachate treatment 19. Bioleaching for metal recovery from electronic wastes 20. Enzyme technology for waste treatment