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

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 who work in this field. Food waste is an abundantly available yet underutilized resource. This book provides a comprehensive account of food waste chemistry, latest techniques for food waste treatment and recycling, sustainability assessment (social, economic, environmental) and challenges in food waste management. It should be useful both as a course book and a reference book in biochemical engineering, environmental, and waste management for universities and companies. This book covers its recycling to value-added products using sustainable concepts and methodologies. Provides a comprehensive account on food waste chemistry and its utilization as a resource for generation of value-added products with a detailed understanding of food waste diversity, drivers and policies governing its valorisation according to its locationProvides an exhaustive description of general treatment options and their evaluation guidelines in terms of cost, energy consumption and waste generation which enables readers to understand the principles behind various recovery and treatment schemesDescribes existing and emerging food waste recycling technologies, products obtained and process efficienciesA thorough account of critical factors and challenges in food waste valorization such as handling of new emerging contaminants, end-product purity and life-cycle assessment INDICE: Section I: General 1. Food waste and sustainable management technologies: An introduction 2. Food waste generation and collection 3. Food waste properties and chemistry 4. Food waste prevention: source reduction; redistribution for human consumption; animal feeding Section II: Conversion of food waste: Processes and technologies 5. Emerging technologies for treatment of food waste 6. Bioconversion technologies: Composting and bio-fertilizer production 7. Bioconversion technologies: Anaerobic digestion 8. Bioconversion technologies: Volatile fatty acids platform 9. Bioconversion technologies: Insects and worms farming 10. Bioconversion technologies: Enzymatic treatment 11. Bio-products from food waste 12. Conversion of food waste to animal feeds 13. Gasification and pyrolysis of food waste Section III: Challenges and perspectives 14. Challenges for food waste valorization 15. Laws and regulation governing food waste management: US, EU, Asia 16. Life-cycle assessment and sustainability assessment of food waste utilization 17. Food waste to resource: an economic analysis

• ISBN: 978-0-12-819148-4
• Editorial: Elsevier
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 337
• Fecha Publicación: 28/10/2020
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés