Current Developments in Biotechnology and Bioengineering

Current Developments in Biotechnology and Bioengineering: Sustainable Bioresources for the Emerging Bioeconomy outlines recent advances in bioenergy, biorefinery and the bioeconomy, an essential element for a 21st century bio-based society. The book provides information on biomass and various conversion technologies with different parameters that affect the conversion process. Sections cover different bioproducts, biorefinery systems, energy and greenhouse gas emission balances of bioenergy and biorefinery, and environmental and economic footprints of bioeconomy. Finally, different strategies adopted by developed and developing countries for the promotion and implementation of a bioeconomy concept for a bio-based society are systematically covered. The book provides comprehensive information starting from early progress to the latest trends on bioenergy, biorefinery and bioeconomy with special reference to the developed and the developing countries and the linkage between bioeconomy and climate change mitigation in simple scientific language to appeal to a wider audience.
- Includes the fundamentals and concepts of biomass and bioenergy
- Outlines recent technology development for biomass conversion
- Provides concept for different bioproducts
- Covers global strategies and policies on the development of bioeconomies

SECTION A: Potential Bioresources 1. Bioresources and their significance: prospects and obstacles 2. Valorization of agricultural wastes for multi-dimensional use 3. Vermicomposting: Earthworms as potent bioresources for biomass conversion 4. Unconventional bioresources and their prospects: focus on spent-straw and biochar 5. Agro-based industrial wastes as potent sources of alternative energy and organic fertilizers 6. Biowaste to Biogas Production: Recent Microbial and Technological Updates 7. Merging the margins for beneficial biofuels: An Indian perspective 8. An evaluation of different climate matrices used in biomass energy research 9. Resource recovery from wastewater: a new approach with alkaline dehydration of urine at source 10. Circular Economy: Transforming Useless Solid-Wastes to Useful Products SECTION B: Economics of bioresources 11. Industrial Perspective of Food Preservatives from Microbial Origin 12. Gasification Technologies and Their Energy Potentials SECTION C: Economic sustainability of the bioresources 13. Sustainability analysis of large scale composting of food-wastes 14. Valorization of Municipal Solid Waste in Bio-refineries for the Creation of a Circular Economy: Role of Emerging Technologies 15. Sustainable agriculture, fishery and forestry for a bioeconomy 16. Bio-economy and Environmental Sustainability: A Social, Political and Scientific Nexus Framework for Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment 17. Biomass energy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) SECTION D: Alternative approaches in bioeconomy of bioresources 18. Ayurveda and its role in Indian bioeconomy 19. Bio-village as a model for bioeconomy 20. Aquaponics for Resource Recovery and Organic Food Productions 21. Traditional bioeconomy versus modern technology-based bioeconomy