Waste-to-Energy Challenges for the Valorization of Industrial Wastes
A special issue of Processes (ISSN 2227-9717). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Processes".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2023) | Viewed by 1500
Special Issue Editor
Interests: waste-to-energy processes; anaerobic digestion; microbial electrochemical technologies; metagenomic analysis; environmental microbiology; resources recovery; biological wastewater treatment.
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
I would like to take this opportunity to invite you to participate in a Special Issue titled “Waste-to-energy challenges for the valorization of industrial wastes”, which is to be published in Processes. Processes (ISSN 2227-9717; Impact Factor: 2.847) is an international peer-reviewed open access journal on the processes that take place in the chemistry, biology, materials, energy, environmental, food, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, and allied engineering fields.
In recent years, there has been a surge in demand for non-renewable energy sources, such as fossil fuels, nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus, chemicals, etc. These are natural resources that cannot be replaced once they are consumed, which is a major concern these days. Alternatively, industrial wastes are potential sources of energy and high value-added products. The amount of waste that is dumped in landfills has been growing at alarming rates due to the limited number of sites and the creation of greenhouse gas emissions. Additionally, residue from crop production and processing, manure from animal production, and wastewater from industrial and municipal sources all contain waste organic matter, which can be converted to valuable products. Therefore, developing innovative processes in existing facilities offers an economical and versatile way for resource and energy recovery from various waste streams.
This Special Issue on waste-to-energy challenges for the valorization of industrial wastes highlights the current trends and future perspectives for waste valorization and resource recovery.
Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:
- Biological wastewater treatment;
- Anaerobic digestion;
- Microbial electrochemical technologies;
- Production of biochemicals, bioenergy and bioproducts from various waste;
- Nanobiotechnology;
- Biomass conversion into renewable fuels;
- Soil Bioremediation;
- Solid waste management;
- Biorefinery;
- Sustainable processes for waste management;
Dr. Basem S. Zakaria
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- anaerobic digestion
- microbial electrochemical technologies
- bioremediation
- wastewater treatment
- biomanufacturing
- bioproducts
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