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Microbial Cell Factories in Food Waste Biorefinery

1st Edition
October 1, 2025
Vishal Ahuja + 3 more
English
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Microbial Cell Factories in Food Waste Biorefinery offers a thorough exploration of using food waste for both commercial and environmental purposes. The book delves into greener fuel production, biofertilizers to replace synthetic agro-chemicals, and high-value bioproducts to enhance waste-based biorefinery. It fosters innovation in food waste bio-refineries and provides insights into current research, limitations, and future trends. As reference material, it helps understand, practice, and promote sustainable systems to protect the environment. In addition to its comprehensive knowledge of food waste valorization via microorganisms like fungi, bacteria, and microalgae, the book discusses the integration of related technologies for additional economic benefits.Sustainabil... of microbial systems for waste transformation, food-water-energy security perspectives, latest developments, innovations, challenges, and guidance to implement waste biorefinery processes are thoroughly assessed.

Current Advances in Solid-State Fermentation

2nd Edition
September 1, 2025
Ashok Pandey + 3 more
English
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Current Advances in Solid-State Fermentation: Current Developments in Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Second Edition offers a detailed examination of the latest advancements in solid-state fermentation. This comprehensive overview covers scientific, technological, and engineering progress within the bioprocessing field. Key topics include bioreactor designs, fermentation processes, genetically modified microbes, process modeling and optimization, extraction techniques, and media preparation. The book's historical perspective, coupled with its discussion on bioprocess systems and kinetics, sets the stage for understanding the fundamentals and applications of solid-state fermentation.Additio... the book emphasizes the integration of modern technologies such as artificial intelligence-based modeling and intelligent control systems to meet industry demands and foster future advancements. It serves as an essential resource for researchers and students, providing a single point of reference from laboratory to industrial applications. The text also highlights the importance of key principles for analysis, optimization, and design, ensuring it remains a valuable reference in the field.

Method of Process Systems in Energy Systems: Emerging Energy Systems Part II

1st Edition
Volume 9
September 1, 2025
Faisal Irshad Khan + 1 more
English
Hardback
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Method of Process Systems in Energy Systems: Emerging Energy Systems, Part II, Volume Nine, the latest release in the Methods in Chemical Process Safety series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on topics such as Cybersecurity of Energy Systems, Risk-based alarm design and management, Data Fusion and Machine Learning in Fault Detection & Diagnosis, Resilience of Emerging Energy System, Identifying Cyber Risks in Energy Systems: Challenges and Strategies, Numerical risk-based models for optimizing renewable energy systems, and more.Other sections cover Advancing Operational Risk Assessment in emerging Energy Systems: Methods and Applications, From Process Design to Control: Advancing Instrumented Energy System for Sustainable and Efficient Operations, Approaches for sustainability assessment in the design of energy systems, Reliability-Informed Economic Assessment of Blue Hydrogen Production Design in a Low-Carbon Energy System, Cyber-Secure and Safe Operation of Renewable Energy Distribution Systems, and more.

Corrosion Atlas Case Studies

1st Edition
September 1, 2025
Fuad Khoshnaw
English
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Corrosion Atlas Case Studies: 2025 Edition gives engineers expedient corrosion solutions for common industrial equipment, no matter the industry. Providing a purely operational level view, this reference is designed as concise case studies categorized by material. It includes content surrounding the phenomenon, equipment appearance (supported by a color image), time of service, conditions where the corrosion occurred, cause, and suggested remedies within each case study. Rounding out with an introductory, foundational layer of corrosion principles, this book delivers what is needed to solve equipment corrosion problems. Finally, additional reference listings for deeper understanding beyond the practical elements are also included.

Aquatic Resource Biorefineries

1st Edition
September 1, 2025
Meisam Tabatabaei + 3 more
English
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Aquatic Resource Biorefineries: Harnessing Aquatic Resources for Sustainable Production represents a groundbreaking exploration of how aquatic resources can be harnessed for sustainable production. This comprehensive volume bridges the gap between theoretical frameworks and practical applications, encouraging collaboration between academia and industry. With topics spanning from waste utilization to environmental impact assessments, the book tackles pressing issues such as efficient extraction methods, biohydrogen production, and market potential for products like chitosan and bioplastics. As this work delves into innovative strategies and offers actionable solutions, it is an essential resource for researchers, policymakers, and industry leaders aiming to advance the field of aquatic biorefinery.In addition to addressing optimal resource utilization, the book emphasizes improving fermentation process efficiency, scaling sustainable practices, and assessing environmental impacts. It explores cutting-edge developments, such as extracting chitin and chitosan, producing biohydrogen and bioplastics, and estimating market growth for aquatic-derived products like carotenoids. By blending research insights with industry advancements, this text serves as a vital guide for creating eco-friendly biorefinery platforms and fostering sustainable decision-making. With its focus on bridging theory and practice, Aquatic Resource Biorefineries remains an indispensable tool for understanding and innovating within this rapidly evolving domain.

Photocatalytic Degradation of Pharmaceutical Wastewater Part A

1st Edition
Volume 65
September 1, 2025
Mihir Kumar Purkait + 2 more
English
Hardback
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Photocatalytic Degradation of Pharmaceutical Wastewater, Volume 65 in the Advances in Chemical Engineering series, highlights new advances in the field, with this volume presenting insightful chapters on topics such as An Overview of Global Occurrences, Physicochemical Properties, and Ecotoxic Effects of Pharmaceuticals, Performances of Conventional Treatment Techniques for the Treatment of Pharmaceutical Contaminated Water: Challenges and Opportunities, Advancements in Photocatalysis: Basics, Classifications, and Controlling Parameters, Advancements in Photocatalyst Synthesis, Physicochemical Characterizations of the Photocatalysts, and much more.Additional chapters cover Enhanced Photocatalytic Degradations of Various Pharmaceuticals: Analysis and Degradation Mechanisms, Kinetic Modeling and Rate of Reactions for the Photocatalytic Degradation of Pharmaceuticals, Integration of the Photocatalytic System with Other Advanced Treatment Techniques, Economic Aspects of Photocatalytic Pharmaceutical Degradation, and Case Studies on Photocatalytic Degradation of Pharmaceuticals in Different Countries.

Sustainable Processes in the Circular Economy

1st Edition
August 29, 2025
Alexandre Chagnes
English
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Sustainable Processes in the Circular Economy: From Virgin to Recycled Raw Materials addresses the different challenges in sustainable management of resources, the sustainable development of processes to extract raw materials, recycle spent materials, and more generally, the circular economy, including social aspects in mining, recycling, the geopolitics of primary and secondary materials, and different business models. The book focuses on the place of chemical processes in the circular economy, and on the notion that circularity reflects the desire to develop a global approach that cares about the environment.In addition, it explores eco-design approaches and tools so that the value chain can reduce the environmental and societal impact of human activity while still creating value. Additional comments discuss and illustrate the link between the economic model and the environmental and societal model.

Progress in Hydrogen Production via Sonolysis Processes

1st Edition
August 29, 2025
Slimane Merouani + 2 more
English
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Progress in Hydrogen Production via Sonolysis Processes highlights recent developments in numerical and experimental hydrogen production by ultrasound (sonolysis). The book serves as a comprehensive and quick reference with a high-level historical review of the technology, detailed technical descriptions, and the latest experimental and numerical achievements. It reviews hydrogen production technologies, sonolysis, and ultrasound-assisted processes and examines numerical acoustic cavitation (bubble sonochemistry) for hydrogen sono-production. Other sections cover cutting-edge computational research and its benefits for understanding multiple issues related to the use of ultrasound as an innovative clean technology for hydrogen production.Issues covered range from the mechanism of sonochemical production, the factors and phenomena that influence it, intensification techniques, and the active bubble population (number and size) in sonicated water.

BiOX-based Photocatalysts for Dual Applications

1st Edition
August 22, 2025
Tonni Agustiono Kurniawan + 1 more
English
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BiOX-based Photocatalysts for Dual Applications: Water Treatment and Energy Storage presents opportunities for finding balance between the progress in semiconductor materials and their seminal applications in cutting-edge areas of water treatment and energy storage, which mitigate environmental impact. This book provides an understanding of BiOX with respect to the relationship between materials’ structure and photoreaction performance, paving the way for a new direction of photocatalysis technology for the future of water treatment. Subsequently, the development of the next generation of BiOX would allow an efficient collection of sunlight to catalyze chemical reactions, promoting solar energy utilization as the cleanest and most sustainable energy source in the long-term. To reflect this novelty, the works presented in this book focuses on BiOX applications not only for water treatment, but also for energy storage and conversion.Written by world-class experts in their respective fields, this book will be an excellent resource for postgraduate students and postdoctoral researchers and academics in chemical engineering, chemistry, physics, and environmental science doing research on advanced oxidation process (AOP); technicians working in research and development on different uses of BiOX-based material for photocatalytic applications; and waste specialists in the waste and energy industries.

Biotechnology Engineering

1st Edition
August 22, 2025
Vinayaka B. Shet + 4 more
English
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Biotechnology Engineering: A Practical Approach on Bioprocess Development from Lab to Industrial Scale offers a comprehensive guide on biotechnology engineering, focusing on transforming research and development into commercially viable industrial processes. The book addresses the needs of the market by providing structured chapters, practical methods, and real-world case studies. Readers will gain valuable insights into bioprocessing basics, scalable solutions, optimization techniques, and collaboration opportunities. The text also covers essential regulatory compliance information, bridging the gap between theoretical knowledge and practical applications.The book is a vital resource for academics, scientists, engineers, and professionals in bioprocess development. It includes detailed discussions, calculations, and case studies, modern bioreactors, and software tools used in the industry. Serving as a desktop reference, it effectively combines theory with real-world applications to support the development of bioprocesses on all scales.

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