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Environmental Remediation in Agri-Food Industry Using Nanotechnology and Sustainable Strategies

  • 1st Edition - February 24, 2025
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Predrag Putnik, Daniela Šojić Merkulov
  • Language: English

Environmental Remediation in Agri-Food Industry Using Nanotechnology and Sustainable Strategies presents remediation practices to remove environmental pollutants caused by food m… Read more

Description

Environmental Remediation in Agri-Food Industry Using Nanotechnology and Sustainable Strategies presents remediation practices to remove environmental pollutants caused by food manufacturing processes. The book explores AOPs, BiOX photocatalysts, perovskite materials, Zirconium oxide-based nanocomposites, and heterostructured semiconductor nanomaterials. It looks at environmental pollutants from the meat industry, fish production, horticulture, grains and other food manufacturing, and explores remediation of soil, water, and air. Contributors represent expertise from backgrounds in materials chemistry, nanotechnology, environmental chemistry, green technologies, analytical and physical chemistry, and agricultural and food science, providing a multidisciplinary approach for use in industry and public policy toward solving food security and environmental issues.

Key features

  • Includes environmental remediation of water, soil, and air as natural resources, along with state-of- the-art techniques and technologies
  • Focuses on nanotechnology and the agri-food sector
  • Enables new opportunities and perspectives for environmental remediation of pollutants in water, soil, and air systems at industrial scales

Readership

Researchers and graduate students in food and agricultural sciences, chemistry, physics and environmental protection, Researchers and graduate students in food and agricultural sciences, chemistry, physics and environmental protection

Table of contents

1. Meat production and environmental repercussions

2. Fish production and water systems

3. Horticultural food production and water: Fruits and vegetables

4. Grain production and environment

5. Production of extracts for (functional) food manufacturing and environment

6. Nanotechnology based on AOPs in environmental remediation for sustainable agri-food industry

7. Industrial and urban wastewater treatment, disinfection and reuse by using advanced oxidation processes

8. Synergistic exploitation of a hybrid AOPs as a pre-treatment of concentrated aqueous effluents containing organic recalcitrant compounds

9. Applications of functional nanomaterials in photocatalytic air pollutants’ degradation, H2 production from water splitting and CO2 reduction to hydrocarbons

10. BiOX photocatalysts with a special focus on application in environmental protection

11. A review of perovskite type materials: From synthesis to applications

12. Zirconium oxide-based nanocomposites as photocatalysts for degradation of pollutants in wastewaters

13. Occurrence of mycotoxins in natural water and their removal by AOPs

14. Heterostructured semiconductor nanomaterials for sensors environmental monitoring and remediation

15. The application of plant-inspired nanomaterials in innovative water purification technology

16. Catalytic production and application of carbon nanotubes in water purification processes

17. Application of oxide and carbon-based materials in remediation of arable soil

18. Remediation of environmental contamination by subcritical and supercritical water

19. Nanoparticles in phytoremediation and plant nutrition

20. Nanotechnology in mycotoxicological food and feed safety

21. Costs and benefits of nanotechnology application in environmental sustainability at the industrial level

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: February 24, 2025
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Predrag Putnik

Professor Predrag Putnik, PhD has more than 100 peer-reviewed scientific papers and book chapters. He co-edited Elsevier’s" Agri-Food Industry Strategies for Healthy Diets and Sustainability" and is associate editor in Food Chemistry Advances, Elsevier. He was invited as guest editor for Food Research International, Elsevier, Special issue "Conventional, Non-Conventional Extraction Techniques and New Strategies for The Recovery of Bioactive Compounds from Plant Material for Human Nutrition" and Foods, MDPI; "Novel food processing and extraction technologies" and for "Sustainable Functional Food Processing." He is review editor of “Frontiers in Nutrition”, and member of the Editorial Board of reputed journals from Elsevier, Springer and Wiley. In 2021 he received Tanner Award for co-authoring the most-cited paper published in Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety (2018). In 2021 he was elected as Highly Cited Researcher ranked in the top 1% by citations for Agricultural Sciences by the Web of Science™.
Affiliations and expertise
University North, Zagreb, Croatia

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Daniela Šojić Merkulov

Prof. Daniela Šojić Merkulov is a Full Professor at the University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Environmental Protection in Serbia. With a career spanning over two decades in academia and research, she has established herself as an expert in the fields of analytical and environmental chemistry, focusing particularly on advanced oxidation processes, photocatalytic degradation, and sustainable nanotechnologies for environmental remediation. Her research contributions include numerous peer-reviewed journal publications, several book chapters, and editorial roles in respected scientific journals such as ‘Nanomaterials’ (MDPI), ‘Separations’ (MDPI), ‘Environmental Research’ (Elsevier), and ‘Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy’ (Springer). She actively contributes to the Serbian Chemical Society, having served as President and Secretary of its Chemical Society of Vojvodina chapter, and currently presides over its analytical chemistry section.

Affiliations and expertise
Full Professor, University of Novi Sad, Serbia

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