Sustainable Waste Valorization

Strategies and Technologies for a Circular Economy
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-3-527-35604-1
Verlag: Wiley-VCH GmbH

Buch, Englisch, 416 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm

Convert diverse waste streams into valuable products and resources

The complexity of waste streams presents significant challenges for resource recovery and circular economy implementation. Sustainable Waste Valorization addresses these challenges through six structured modules covering biomass, municipal solid waste, industrial and hazardous waste, food waste, plastics, and polymer waste. Authored by Khaled Zoroufchi Benis and Sonil Nanda, both researchers at Dalhousie University specializing in circular process engineering and waste-to-resource conversion, this reference delivers technical depth across each waste category.

Each chapter examines biochemical, thermochemical, and mechanical transformation methods while detailing both environmental and economic impacts. Sustainable Waste Valorization covers recovery of biomaterials, metals, biofuels, and nanomaterials from diverse waste streams. The modular structure allows practitioners to focus on specific waste types and their unique processing challenges, from municipal solid waste logistics to hazardous industrial waste handling and treatment protocols, the recovery of valuable components and metals from e-waste, and embedding circularity in cellular agriculture.

Readers will also find: - Detailed technical approaches for valorizing biomass, food waste, plastics, and polymer waste into recoverable resources and secondary products
- Analysis of municipal solid waste processing challenges alongside industrial and hazardous waste treatment methods and their environmental impacts
- Coverage of resource recovery pathways for biomaterials, metals, biofuels, and nanomaterials derived from multiple waste stream categories
- Circular economy frameworks connecting waste valorization technologies to broader resource management and sustainability objectives across industries
- Evaluation of environmental and economic impacts for each waste transformation method, supporting informed technology selection and process design

Sustainable Waste Valorization serves process engineers, chemical engineers, power engineers, bioengineers, and industrial chemists working in waste processing and resource recovery. By organizing content around specific waste types and their transformation pathways, the book enables practitioners to identify applicable technologies and evaluate their viability for targeted waste-to-resource applications.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zoroufchi Benis, Khaled

Nanda, Sonil

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Verfahrenstechnik | Chemieingenieurwesen | Biotechnologie Chemische Verfahrenstechnik
• Technische Wissenschaften Energietechnik | Elektrotechnik Alternative und erneuerbare Energien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Agricultural Waste as a Feedstock for Bioenergy
2. Livestock Manure as a Resource: Bioenergy, Fertilizer Production, and Circular Agriculture
3. Sustainable Solid Biofuels from Agro-Waste: Processes and Opportunities
4. Thermochemical Valorization of Biomass: Pyrolysis and Gasification
5. Catalytic Pathways for Organic Waste-to- Biofuel Conversion
6. Anaerobic Digestion of Organic Waste for Biogas, Hydrogen, and Liquid Byproducts
7. Composting and Vermicomposting of Food Waste
8. Food Waste to Energy: Biogas, Bioethanol, and Beyond
9. High-Value Products from Food Waste: Proteins, Enzymes, and Nutrients
10. Landfill Gas Recovery: Turning Waste into Energy
11. Applications of Machine Learning in Municipal Solid Waste Management
12. Computational Modeling for Sustainable Combustion and Valorization of Solid Waste and Biomass
13. Valorization of Wastewater Treatment Plant Residues
14. Water Treatment Residual Valorization
15. Waste-Derived Adsorbents for Environmental Remediation Materials and Methods
16. From Cells to Systems: Embedding Circularity in Cellular Agriculture
17. E-Waste: Recovery of Metals and Valuable Components

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Khaled Benis is an accomplished Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering in the Department of Process Engineering and Applied Science at Dalhousie University. As the Director of the Circular Process Engineering Lab, Dr. Benis leads research in waste management, resource recovery, and environmental sustainability. His work focuses on developing circular economy frameworks that integrate advanced chemical engineering solutions to tackle global challenges in waste emissions and environmental degradation.
 
Dr. Sonil Nanda is an Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair in the Department of Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture at Dalhousie University, Canada. Formerly, he was the Director of Research and Development at Titan Clean Energy Projects Corporation in Craik, Saskatchewan. He received his Ph.D. degree in Biology from York University, Canada; his MSc degree in Applied Microbiology from Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT University), India; and his BSc degree in Microbiology from Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology, India.