Recycling of Food Waste for the Production of Valuable Products
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Security and Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 December 2024 | Viewed by 120
Special Issue Editors
Interests: recycle of food waste; anaerobic fermentation; caproate and hexanol biosynthesis; ethanol fermentation; hydrogen fermentation; pretreatment of cellulosic biomass; analysis of microbial ecology; biogas
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
A huge amount of food waste is produced annually from industrial food processing, restaurants, canteens, and families. Due to its abundant nutrients, including starch, protein, oil, and lignocellulose, food waste can be easily degraded by microorganisms and cause environmental pollution. Recycling food waste to produce animal feed, biochemicals, and bioenergy is an attractive way of handling this refuse. Various technologies, including anaerobic digestion, chemical/enzymatic hydrolysis, gasification, and combustion, have been examined to produce value-added products such as methane, bioethanol, biohydrogen, biofuel, biobutanol, and short- and medium-chain carboxylic acids. The life cycle assessment approach is effective in estimating the advantages and disadvantages of these technologies. Although food waste appears to be a promising substrate for the production of valuable products, some limitations need to be addressed before its application. Despite the high starch and protein concentrations, the complexity of food waste makes it difficult to be directly utilized. Some technologies are emerging to remove the ammonia, oils, and high salt concentrations from food waste, making it a suitable alternative for the production of valuable products.
Dr. Cunsheng Zhang
Guest Editor
Dr. Yi Cui
Guest Editor Assistant
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Keywords
- food waste
- biochemical
- fermentation
- biofilm
- starch
- lignocellulose
- food process
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