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Waste Biorefinery: Towards a Circular Bioeconomy and Sustainable Future two-volume set deals with the intersection of circular economy principles and biorefinery innovation,… Read more
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Prof. Xu is currently Chair Professor of Advanced Biorefinery at City University of Hong Kong, Fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering (FCAE). He was a professor and the NSERC/FPInnovations Industrial Research Chair in Forest Biorefinery at Western University. His research is focused on conversion of biomass and biowastes (forestry/agricultural residues, food wastes, wastewater sludge, microalgae, lignin, glycerol and sugars, etc.) into biofuels (sustainable aviation fuels, green hydrogen) and green chemicals and biopolymer materials. He has authored/edited 3 books on biorefinery, and published 20+ book chapters and 320+ papers in peer-reviewed journals.
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Dr. Saravanan Ramiah Shanmugam is currently working as Assistant Research Professor in Biosystems Engineering Department at Auburn University, Alabama, USA. He has previously worked as a DST Inspire Faculty in the School of Chemical and Biotechnology, SASTRA Deemed University, India. His primary research interests focus on the creation value from wastes. He received his Doctor of Philosophy degree from University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada. He has worked as an Associate Scientist in AgraCity Crop & Nutrition Ltd., Wallaceburg, Ontario, Canada. He has published more than 33 research articles in peer-reviewed International Journals, filed for 4 provisional patents (3 from India and 1 from U.S.), 5 book chapters and 1 book as an Editor in Elsevier.
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Dr Kiran Babu Uppuluri is currently working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Biotechnology, School of Chemical and Biotechnology, SASTRA Deemed University, Thanjavur. His group is working on the development, modelling, optimization, and intensification of bioprocesses for various biochemicals such as biofuels, therapeutic enzymes, and biopolymers. His current research interest lies in the Biomass-Biorefinery for circular economy. He published 45 SCI papers & 2 Patents, guided 4 PhD scholars and edited 3 books in the area of Biomass-Biorefinery.
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Dr. Saady joined Agriculture and Agri-Foods Canada at the Dairy and Swine Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-food Canada, Sherbrooke, Quebec. He worked for Bio-Terre Systems Inc. before he joined the Memorial University of Newfoundland in 2016. Dr. Saady is an environmental engineer specialised in biotechnologies for waste treatment and converting renewable waste biomass into biofuel and bioenergy such as H2, CH4 and electricity using wet and dry anaerobic digestion and microbial fuel cell. He published more than 63 peer-reviewed articles of which five were single authored.