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Banana Peels Valorization
Sustainable and Eco-friendly Applications
1st Edition - March 1, 2024
Editors: Mejdi Jeguirim, Besma Khiari
Paperback ISBN:
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Banana Peels Valorization: Sustainable and Eco-friendly Applications provides a global overview of world production, physicochemical and microbiological characteristics of Banana… Read more
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Banana Peels Valorization: Sustainable and Eco-friendly Applications provides a global overview of world production, physicochemical and microbiological characteristics of Banana Peels and the various pathways for their valorization, considering the advantages, disadvantages and factors impacting on each way of valorization. Each chapter deals with sustainable applications based on the sector category. Such structure helps the audience from a specific field to easily identify the specific application. Successful case study of a banana processing by-products valorization is also presented.
Written by a team of interdisciplinary experts, this is the ultimate valuable resource for agricultural or food engineers who work in the banana groves and in the banana processing industry, and also for Researchers working in correlated areas of food, environmental and energy fields.
- Provides a global overview of world production, physicochemical and microbiological characteristics of banana peels
- Explores banana tree and fruit wastes including their quantification and classification
- Discusses each sustainable application of banana peels in a specific chapter based on the sector category
Agricultural or food engineers who work in the banana groves and in the banana processing industry and are seeking to improve their by-products management by actively utilizing them in effective applications, Researchers working in the edge of food, environmental and energy fields, Food scientists and technologists, Energy, Environmental, agricultural and chemical engineers, Agriculturists, crop cultivators, agricultural engineers, farming specialists, biologists, Professional working in the food and fruit processing industry, Researchers, specialists, chemical engineers and professionals working in the agro-food processing industry, New product developers in the food and agricultural industry, Graduates and post-graduate level multi-discipline courses dealing with agricultural science, food technology, environmental, energy, waste valorization, sustainability, and chemical engineering
1. Banana Peels; Identification, Quantification and Characterization2. Banana Peels for livestock breeding3. Extraction and formulation of valuable components from Banana Peels4. Bio-based materials5. Agricultural applications6. Environmental applications7. Energy applications8. The biorefinery concept for the industrial valorization of banana peels
- No. of pages: 384
- Language: English
- Published: March 1, 2024
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323959377
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Mejdi Jeguirim
Dr. Mejdi Jeguirim is a Professor at the University of Haute Alsace, France, in the field of energy, process engineering, and kinetics modelling. He has co-authored more than 150 referred international journal papers in his research field and is a member of the editorial boards for the international journals Energy, Energies, Energy for Sustainable Development, Biofuels, and the International Journal of Green Energy. He is involved as a scientific expert for over 50 international scientific journals, as well as for several national and international research programs. Prof. Jeguirim received the French National Research Excellence Award for researchers with high level scientific activity for 2009-2012, 2013-2016, and 2017-2020. Recently, he entered the World’s Top 2% Scientists ranking established by Stanford University.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, University of Alsace, FranceBK
Besma Khiari
Dr. Besma Khiari is a Professor at the University of Carthage (Tunisia) in the field of energy and environment processes, applied mainly to wastes. Recovery from urban, agricultural and industrial wastes is the main objective of the different papers, books, academic supervisions and industrial projects, she took part in. Her expertise in the area best met the needs and expectations of professionals such as engineering companies, design offices, health services, environmental businesses and units.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Ecole Nationale d’Ingénieurs de Carthage, Tunis, Tunisia