Waste-to-Resource System Design for Low-Carbon Circular Economy

Waste-to-Resource System Design for Low-Carbon Circular Economy equips the user with the necessary knowledge to carry out the preliminary design and optimization of economically viable and environmentally friendly waste-to-resource systems. This book covers the state-of-the-art development of technologies and processes in terms of six types of bioresources (i.e. energy, biohydrogen, biomethane, bioethanol, biodiesel, and biochar) that are recoverable from waste. The focused technologies and processes, such as anaerobic digestion, fermentation, pyrolysis, gasification, and transesterification are being widely applied-or have the potential to be used-towards sustainable waste management. It also covers the methods needed for the design and optimization of waste-to-resource systems, i.e., multiobjective optimization, cost-benefit analysis, and life cycle assessment, as well as systematic and representative databases on the parameters of the processes, costs, and the advantages and disadvantages of technologies. Finally, the book adopts a problem-based method to facilitate audiences to quickly gain the knowledge and skill of designing and optimizing waste-to-resource systems.
- Includes an up-to-date understanding of the fundamentals and mechanisms of promising waste-to-resource technologies and processes
- Describes the methods that are needed for the design and optimization of waste-to-resource systems, i.e., multiobjective optimization, cost-benefit analysis, and life cycle assessment
- Provides systematic and representative databases on the parameters of the processes, costs, and advantages and disadvantages of different waste-to-resource systems
- Covers different types of waste-to-resource technologies, categorized into waste-to-energy, waste-to-biohydrogen, waste-to-biomethane, waste-to-bioethanol, waste-to-biodiesel, and waste-to-biochar

Dr. Siming You, Senior Lecturer in the James Watt School of Engineering at the University of Glasgow, UK, specialises in the design and analysis of environmental and energy systems with a focus on water treatment and waste management systems. Before joining the School, he worked as a Research Fellow at NUS (National University of Singapore) Environmental Research Institute. He also served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Nanyang Technological University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2014 and 2015, respectively. Dr. You received his Ph.D. in Thermo-fluids from Nanyang Technological University in 2014. Dr. You was awarded the Outstanding Young Researcher Award by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), SLS in 2018. Dr You has published more 100 papers in top-tier journals including Science, Bioresource Technology, Journal of Hazardous Materials, etc.

1. The waste challenge2. Waste3. Waste-to-energy4. Waste-to-biohydrogen5. Waste-to-biomethane6. Waste-to-bioethanol7. Waste-to-biodiesel8. Waste-to-biochar9. System design: cost-benefit analysis (CBA)10. System design: Life cycle assessment (LCA)11. System optimisation12. Perspectives of future development