Bio Refinery of Wastewater Treatment

Way to Generate Waste to Value

1st Edition - September 26, 2024
Editors: Maulin P. Shah, Angana Sarkar
Language: English
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Bio Refinery of Wastewater Treatment: Way to Generate Waste to Value focuses on the exploitation of various wastewater treatment technologies and microbial, chemical, and physical processes as tools for simultaneous value generation during treatment, degradation, detoxification, and stabilization of toxic and hazardous contaminants and restoring contaminated sites. The book provides recents advancements in integrative and cost-effective wastewater treatment strategies and stipulates all pros and cons of each strategy.

Bio Refinery of Wastewater Treatment: Way to Generate Waste to Value is valuable to researchers and scientists, who are working in the field of effluent treatment plants/biodegradation of environmental contaminants for environmental protection and sustainable development.

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Title page
Table of Contents
Copyright
Contributors
Chapter 1. Introduction to waste to value in biorefinery approach
1. Introduction
2. Classification of wastewater
3. Characteristics of wastewater
4. Wastewater as a potential feedstock for biorefinery model
5. Stage 1: Hydrolysis
6. Stage 2: Acidogenesis
7. Stage 3: Acetogenesis
8. Stage 4: Methanogenesis
9. Anaerobic digestion for volatile fatty acid production
10. Polyhydroxyalkanoates
11. Biohydrogen
12. Single cell protein
13. SCP from potato starch processing water
14. Photosynthetic bacteria for SCP
15. SCP from dairy wastewater
16. Purple phototrophic bacteria as SCP
17. Methanotrophs as SCP
18. Algal biorefinery from wastewaters
19. Conclusion
Chapter 2. Current progress and challenges of municipal wastewater phycoremediation and microalgae-based biorefinery
1. Introduction
2. Methodology
3. Municipal wastewater
4. Wastewater bioremediation with microalgae
5. Microalgal biorefinery
6. Conclusions
Chapter 3. Sewage water as a potential biorefinery from remediation to mining
1. Introduction
2. Sewage water characteristics
3. Characterization of sewage sludge
4. Sewage water biorefinery concept
5. Sewage water as a potential biorefinery
6. Chemically enhanced primary treatment
7. Conclusion
Chapter 4. Municipal wastewater as potential biorefinery
1. Introduction
2. Composition of municipal wastewater
3. Value-added products from municipal wastes
4. Flow diagram of the wastewater treatment plant and sampling points (Manoli and Samara, 1999)
5. Hurdles in wastewater biorefinery
6. Future prospects
7. Application of wastewater biorefineries
8. Wastewater to energy: advancing biorefinery sustainability
9. Career opportunities in WWBR
10. Details of research institutes in India
Chapter 5. Removal of nanoparticles from drinking water and wastewater
1. Introduction
2. Assessing the risk of nanomaterials
3. Removal of nanoparticles from gas streams
4. Removal of nanomaterials from drinking water and wastewater
5. Conclusions
Chapter 6. Valorization of wastewater for biobutanol production: A promising approach of wastewater biorefinery
1. Introduction
2. Production of butanol from wastewater
3. Genetic manipulation for enhanced butanol production
4. Future perspective and conclusion
Chapter 7. Biohydrogen production from dark fermentation of lignocellulosic biomass
1. Introduction
2. Biohydrogen production using dark fermentation processes of wastewater
3. Biohydrogen production using dark fermentation processes of lignocellulosic biomass
4. Factors affecting biohydrogen production
5. Combination of dark fermentation with photofermentation
6. Conclusion
Chapter 8. Bioethanol production as a promising approach of wastewater biorefinery
1. Introduction
2. Bioethanol from wastewater treatment of different industries
3. Limitations of the currently used processes
4. Future prospectives
5. Conclusion
Chapter 9. Biodiesel production as a promising approach of industrial wastewater biorefinery
1. Introduction
2. What are microalgae?
3. Cultivation of microalgae
4. Harvesting techniques
5. Extraction techniques
6. Biomass conversion process
7. Wastewater
8. Conclusions
Chapter 10. Electricity generation during wastewater treatment
1. Wastewater treatment and its treatment steps
2. Advantages of electricity production from wastewater treatment
3. Disadvantages of electricity production from wastewater treatment
4. Literature review
Chapter 11. Green synthesis of nanoparticles for waste water treatment
1. Introduction
2. Nanoparticle based current wastewater treatments
3. Green synthesis of nanoparticles
4. Mode of action of green nanoparticles in wastewater treatment
5. Synthesis routes for green nanoparticles
6. Characterization techniques of nanoparticles
7. Application of nanoparticles in wastewater treatment
8. Pros and cons
9. Future prospects
Chapter 12. Bioprospecting of novel and industrially relevant enzymes
1. Introduction
2. Classification and selection criteria for industrial enzymes
3. Bioprospecting of enzymes from various sources
4. Enzymes in bioremediation
5. Enzymes from metagenomics with industrial value
7. Novel enzymes found in the environmental samples
8. Enzymes that contribute to long-term industrial development
9. Challenges related to metagenomic technique to discover new enzymes
10. Conclusions and future prospects
Chapter 13. Biofertlizer from wastewater: A pollution abatement technique
1. Introduction
2. Different sources of biofertilizer
3. Case studies
4. Advantages and disadvantages
5. Future prospect
6. Conclusion
Chapter 14. Biofuel revolution: A credible inevitability or a future trend
1. Introduction
2. Sources involved in the bioextraction of biofuel: Past, present, and future
3. Review on various extraction process technologies
4. Summary and conclusion
Chapter 15. Exploring chitosan nanocomposites for wastewater treatment via solid phase extraction biorefinery
1. Introduction
2. Extraction and characterization of chitosan
3. Variety of chitosan nanocomposites in wastewater treatment
4. Application of chitosan nanocomposite for wastewater treatment
5. Summary and conclusion
Chapter 16. Techno-economic feasibility analysis for biofuels utilizing wastewater as nutrient medium
1. Introduction
3. Microbial fuel cells
4. Biochemical conversion technologies
5. First-generation, second-generation and third-generation biofuel
6. Bioconversion of lignocellulosic biomass to biodiesel production
7. Environmental impact of biorefinery products
8. Conclusions
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