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Boosting the Transition to Circular Economy in the Water Sector: Insights from EU Demonstration Case Studies

  • 1st Edition
  • June 1, 2025
  • Giorgio Mannina + 1 more
  • English
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Boosting the Transition to Circular Economy in the Water Sector: Insights from EU Demonstration Case Studies, Current Developments in Biotechnology and Bioengineering provides a holistic overview of the current status of recent progress in resource recovery from wastewater treatment, including fundamental aspects and development of processes, as well as the needs of further research and industrialization. The book gives special emphasis and discussion on green technologies for resource recovery from wastewater and bottlenecks with regard to their applications. From a future green bioprocess standpoint, biogas production and waste minimization, opportunities, future perspectives, and research needs are also discussed.The book presents insights gained recent EU projects reporting solutions, technologies, tools and strategies to overcome the existing barriers hampering the circular economy transition process. The book combines practical and theoretical knowledge of circular economy of water sector thus being useful for both researchers, professionals and actors making local decisions.

Electrochemical Sensors and Biosensors

  • 1st Edition
  • June 1, 2025
  • Jorddy Neves Cruz + 3 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Electrochemical Sensors and Biosensors: Green Sustainable Process for Chemical and Environmental Engineering and Science (GSPCEES) provides the latest developments in electrochemical sensors and biosensors for compound identification. The book covers the principles, applications, and latest advancements in the field, and provides information on the design, development, and optimization of sensitive and selective electrochemical sensors and biosensors for compound identification. It includes detailed discussions on underlying principles, practical guidance on the selection of materials, fabrication techniques, and sensing and signal transduction strategies as well as key topics such as sensor integration, miniaturization, and commercialization.This is an indispensable resource for researchers, scientists, and students working in the field of electrochemical sensors and biosensors, as well as professionals in industry and government agencies involved in chemical and environmental monitoring.

Biopolymers from Microorganisms for a Green Future

  • 1st Edition
  • June 1, 2025
  • Pratima Bajpai
  • English
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Biopolymers from Microorganisms for a Green Future: Microbial Biopolymers provides in-depth information on various microbial biopolymer composites and critically evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of biocomposites as well as thermal and functional properties of natural material-reinforced biopolymers, their potential, and future opportunities. The book covers the latest developments and advancements in the field of microbial biopolymers, with an emphasis on process engineering to commercialization. The book starts with an introduction and general background, followed by a classification of biopolymers, and comprehensively covers the types of microbial and composite biopolymers, including their production as well as applications. The book concludes with future research needs and directions. Biopolymers from Microorganisms for a Green Future is a highly relevant resource for a broad audience including researchers and advanced students in biotechnology, biochemistry, microbiology, industrial technology, chemistry, applied chemistry, chemical engineering, biochemical engineering, environmental engineering, and process engineering, as well as marketing experts, professionals, analysts, and consultants in biotechnology.

Pulp and Paper Industry

  • 1st Edition
  • May 1, 2025
  • Mohammad Reza Rahimpour + 3 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Pulp and Paper Industry: Advanced Technologies in Wastewater Treatment provides detailed discussion on the characteristics, environmental hazards, and human health effects of pulp and paper wastewater. The book discusses their different treatment methods and related challenges. These techniques start from physical methods such as sedimentation and froth flotation, followed by physiochemical treatments including activated carbon filtration, chemical precipitation, as well as biological techniques like aerobic and anaerobic processes. The book also covers application of advanced and novel wastewater treatment techniques in pulp and paper industries, such as ozonation, photocatalysis, advanced oxidation process, electrolysis, microbial fuel cells, etc., as well as challenges of industries, economic assessments, and future perspectives of pulp and paper wastewaters treatments.

Nanotechnology for Next-Generation Energy Storage

  • 1st Edition
  • May 1, 2025
  • Tariq Altalhi + 2 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Nanotechnology for Next-Gen Energy Storage: Trends and Applications introduces the different methods for fabrication of nano-composites based on the desired properties for renewable energy technologies. The book provides a proper understanding of the latest developments instituted by analysts for unified nano-composites production of multifarious devices employed in the growing vistas related to transportation, health sectors, water treatment, aerospace, constructions, environmental protections, industrial applications, biomedical utilities, automobiles, and agriculture, hence emerging for overall sustainable evolution besides energy concerns. It highlights nano-composites that are exploited for sustainable energy devices like solar/piezoelectric devices, batteries, etc. The book includes investigations that prove the relation between newly developed nano-composites and energy conversion efficiencies of solar along with piezoelectric materials performance.

Microbial Biotechnology: Integrated Microbial Engineering for B3 – Bioenergy, Bioremediation, and Bioproducts

  • 1st Edition
  • April 1, 2025
  • Maulin P. Shah + 1 more
  • English
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Microbial Biotechnology: Integrated Microbial Engineering for B3—Bioenergy, Bioremediation and Bioproducts focuses on the applications of microbes as cell factories for production. The book investigates side streams of high value products from microbes and covers major topics in algal and bacterial biotechnology to produce biomass and high value metabolites through CO2 sequestration, genetic manipulation, and medium engineering tactics. It considers the entire repertoire of microbes for remediation and biomass generation as well as bioenergy, microbial community analysis, and metabolite characterization.Users will find this to be an indispensable resource for industry professionals and researchers working in wastewater management and microbial remediation, CO2 capture, and bio-products characterization.

Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology

  • 3rd Edition
  • April 1, 2025
  • Ghasem Najafpour
  • English
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Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Third Edition outlines the principles of biochemical processes, explaining their use in the manufacturing of every day products. The book's unique offering lies in it inclusion of many solved problems, case studies, examples, and demonstrations of detailed experiments that include simple design equations and required calculations. All chapters are fully revised, updated, and include the latest research results in the field of biochemical engineering and biotechnology. The new edition emphasizes practical aspects, microorganisms, upgrades of new types of membrane bioreactors, and contains more case studies and solved problems.This book remains an indispensable reference for researchers in bioprocess engineering, chemicals, the physical/biological treatment of industrial wastewater, enzyme technology, fermentation processes, nano-particles' synthesis for antibiotic loading, medicine, and drug delivery.

Bio-Waste Derived Carbon Materials and their Applications, especially as Sensors

  • 1st Edition
  • March 1, 2025
  • Sushma Dave + 2 more
  • English
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Bio-waste Derived Carbon Materials and their Applications Especially as Sensors highlights the role of carbon nanomaterials as bio-(sensors) in several fields, presenting key achievements to date in the areas of biosensor-based diagnostics and environmental applications. The book brings together the knowledge of key researchers from different areas of biosensors research, including an explanation of biomass carbonization by pyrolysis and hydrothermal methods, and its use as a cost-effective strategy for fabrication of electrodes for biosensing applications, along with a comparison of synthetic and bio-derived carbon materials and discussion of various techniques used to improve the surface properties of carbon nanomaterials to enhance the electrocatalytic behaviour of working electrodes. The book highlights the promising technology of biosensors in the field of health care and the environment and explains the methods available, presenting current strategies and future perspectives for bio-(sensor) based diagnosis using carbon materials as sensing materials.

Advances in Process Control with Real Applications

  • 1st Edition
  • February 28, 2025
  • Ch. Venkateswarlu
  • English
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Advances in Process Control with Real Applications presents various advanced controllers, including the formulation, design, and implementation of various advanced control strategies for a wide variety of processes. These strategies include generalized predictive control with and without constraints; linear and nonlinear model predictive control; dynamic matrix control; nonlinear control, such as generic model control, globally linearizing control, and nonlinear internal model control; optimal and optimizing control; inferential control; intelligent control based on fuzzy reasoning and neural networks; and controllers based on stochastic and evolutionary optimization.This book will be highly beneficial to students, researchers, and industry professionals working in process design, process monitoring, process systems engineering, process operations and control, and related areas.

Biomass Conversion through Nanomaterials

  • 1st Edition
  • February 1, 2025
  • Inamuddin + 2 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Biomass Conversion Through Nanomaterials presents the catalytic processing of biomass to produce fuels as well as chemicals. The book employs diverse monomers including glucose/fructose as well as polymers such as starch/cellulose in various catalytic processes. It shows that nanomaterials with porous structures, with increased surface areas, and acidity strengthen the catalytic roles and also that numerous additional nanomaterial with comparable qualities, such as those based on carbon, resins, metal oxides, zeolites, silica, organic polymers, and many others, enhance the bioconversion processes of biomass. The book also highlights the importance of nanotechnology in the emergence of successful biomass for producing high-quality bioenergy and thoroughly covers varied bioenergy applications using nanomaterials. It highlights the possibility that enabling biomass through nanomaterials improves the effectiveness of various bioenergy sources, such as biofuels and microbial fuel cells. After reading the book, you will gain a better understanding of biomass conversion using nanomaterials, its associated technologies, and its various applications.