Sustainable waste management towards circular bioeconomy

This book covers a broad spectrum of topics on circular bioeconomy including underlying concepts, biomass conversion mechanisms, types of value-added products and technological advances in waste
recycling. It also covers key aspects of a sustainable biorefinery like design and innovation, environmental and socio-economic impact, life cycle assessment, policy and regulations.
Sustainable circular bioeconomy (CBE) plays a key role in realizing the objective of Sustainable Development Goal 12 (Responsible Consumption and Production). The expanding population and industrialization has resulted in colossal volumes of biomass waste and a huge demand for clean energy technologies. This has created immense scientific focus on circular bioeconomy which primarily deals with the conversion of wastes into sustainable and environment friendly value-added products, thus enabling the minimization of waste. The recycling of wastes in closed loop systems produces bioproducts with low carbon footprint, high biodegradability, and other environmental and economic benefits. Written by eminent scientists in industrial biotechnology, this book presents detailed insights into the fundamentals and principles of sustainable waste management for successfully establishing circular bioeconomy.
The primary audience of this book is the undergraduate, postgraduate and PhD students, researchers, industrialists, policy makers and stakeholders. The targeted readership of this book is vast because sustainable biorefinery constitutes one of the fastest growing areas that interest government and private institutions, scientific societies, Non-governmental organizations (NGO), resource recovery and biotechnology companies.

Prof. Vijai Singh is Head of Department of Biosciences and Dean (Research & Innovation) at School of Science at Indrashil University, Mehsana, Gujarat, India. He received his Ph.D. in Biotechnology (2009) from the ICAR-National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources, Uttar Pradesh Technical University, Lucknow, India with a research focus on the development of molecular and immunoassays for diagnosis of Aeromonas hydrophila. He served as associate professor in the Department of Biosciences, Indrashil University, Mehsana, Gujarat, India. He was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology at Institute of Advanced Research, Gandhinagar, India and also an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biotechnology at the Invertis University, Bareilly, India. Prior to that, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Synthetic Biology Group at the Institute of Systems and Synthetic Biology, Paris, France and School of Energy & Chemical Engineering at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan, South Korea.
He has extensive experience in Synthetic Biology including gene regulatory network, biologic gates, oscillator, amplifier, CRISPR-Cas for gene knock out, knock in, CRISPRi, CRISPR diagnostics, bioinformatics, fermentation and so on. He has more than 15+ years of research and teaching experience in synthetic biology, genome editing, metabolic engineering, and industrial microbiology. His 228+ publications are indexed in Scopus including 110 articles, 30 books, 86 book chapters, and 3 patents. He serves as an Associate Editor of Microbial Cell Factories, Frontiers in Energy Research, Blue Biotechnology, Biotechnology for Sustainable Materials and editorial board member of Synthetic Biology, Scientific Reports, Frontiers in Bioengineering & Biotechnology and Frontiers in Microbiology. I serve as reviewer of number of peer-reviewed journals. He has received several awards including “Bioclues Innovation, Research and Development” award 2023 by BIOCLUES Society, “Vice chancellor best research” award 2023 by Indrashil University and “Agathiyar Chemical Biology Award” 2023 by Society of Chemical and Synthetic Biology. He is also a chairman of the Board of Study and member of Academic Council of Indrashil University and is the Member Secretary of Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBSC) of Indrashil University.