Waste Valorization for Bioenergy and Bioproducts: Biofuels, Biogas, and Value-Added Products
Front Cover -- Waste Valorization for Bioenergy and Bioproducts: Biofuels, Biogas, and Value-Added Products -- Woodhead Series in Bioenergy -- Waste Valorization for Bioenergy and Bioproducts: Biofuels, Biogas, and Value-Added Products -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1 - Introduction to waste to bioenergy -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Solid wastes -- 1.3 Agricultural residues -- 1.4 Pulp and paper industry waste -- 1.5 Wood and forest waste -- 1.6 Algae -- 1.7 Mechanisms to convert solid waste to energy -- 1.7.1 Pretreatment technologies -- 1.7.1.1 Physical pretreatment -- 1.7.1.2 Chemical pretreatment -- 1.7.1.3 Biological pretreatment -- 1.7.1.4 Alkaline pretreatment -- 1.7.1.5 Thermal pretreatment -- 1.8 Thermochemical conversion pathway -- 1.8.1 Incineration -- 1.8.2 Gasification -- 1.8.3 Torrefaction -- 1.8.4 Pyrolysis -- 1.9 Biochemical conversion pathway -- 1.9.1 Fermentation -- 1.9.2 Anaerobic digestion -- 1.10 Liquid waste -- 1.10.1 Wastewater treatment technologies -- 1.10.1.1 Conventional treatment -- 1.10.1.2 Algae-based treatment -- 1.11 Chemical pathway -- 1.11.1 Lipid extraction -- 1.11.2 Transesterification process -- 1.12 Biofuel upgradation -- 1.13 Hydrodeoxygenation -- 1.13.1 Catalytic vapor cracking -- 1.13.2 Emulsification -- 1.14 Conclusion -- References -- 2 - Opportunities and challenges in the production of biofuels from waste biomass -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Classification of biofuels -- 2.3 Types of biofuels produced from organic waste -- 2.4 Biomass waste-to-energy valorization technologies -- 2.5 Pretreatment methods and their influence on the breakdown of biomass structure -- 2.6 Emerging sources of waste streams: opportunities and challenges for a sustainable and clean-energy transition -- 2.7 Types of waste for biofuel production.