This new volume in the Woodhead Series in Bioenergy enables the reader to understand how biogas technology can be utilized to reach circular economy objectives. It will be valuable to all those with an interest in biogas technology, bioenergy, and bioeconomy, including researchers, advanced students, faculty, engineers, scientists, R&D, industry practitioners, and policymakers.
Table of Contents
1. Suitable feedstocks, advanced combining pre-treatment for optimized biomethane and biohydrogen production2. Innovative biogas digester technology
3. Artificial neural networks and genetic algorithms for modeling and optimizing biogas production
4. Applications and future of in-situ biogas purification and upgrading technologies
5. Carbon neutrality and challenges in biogas economy: Bioeconomy case studies
6. Valorization of digestate as a biofertilizer and its energy recovery using thermochemical conversion
7. Biomethane and as an innovative solution for decarbonized transport
8. Biomethane in the water-energy-food nexus context
9. Biohydrogen production for power and transport
10. Life cycle assessment and cost-benefit analysis of biogas and biohydrogen production
Authors
Hassan El Bari Professor, Ibn Tofail University, Morocco.Dr. Hassan El Bari has been a Professor at Ibn Tofail University in Morocco since 1988. He obtained his PhD in Materials Science from INPL (France) in 1987 and also has a "Doctorat d'Etat" in Mechanical Engineering from the University Mohamed V in Morocco, received in 1998. He is the president of the Moroccan Association of Solid Waste. He was Master Degree Coordinator: Waste Management and Recovery (2010-2014) and Member of the International Solid Waste Association (2004-2014). He has been involved in many funded projects as a coordinator and partner, and has significant experience in teaching solid waste management, biomass and bioenergy, and anaerobic digestion technology. Prof. El Bari is an associate editor of the Cleaner Waste Systems Journal (Elsevier) and guest lecturer at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. He has authored or co-authored several book chapters and edited or co-edited 3 books.
Abdellatif Barakat Director Researcher, Green Chemistry and Valorization of Biomass, INRAE, JRU of Agropolymer Engineering and Emerging Technologies (IATE), Montpellier, France.Abdellatif Barakat is a Director Researcher in Green Chemistry and Valorization of Biomass at INRAE, JRU of Agropolymer Engineering and Emerging Technologies (IATE), Montpellier, France, which focuses on dry fractionation and bioconversion of agro-resources and waste, biofuels, anaerobic digestion, digestate valorization, pyrolysis, biofertilizers and molecules of interest. His current research interests include valorization of biomass for bioenergy production, pretreatments, extraction of biopolymers, and biofertilizers formulation. He received his PhD in Chemistry and Physicochemical of Biopolymers from Reims University in 2007, and has previously held several postdoc positions, including at the Laboratory of Biotechnologies of the Environment (LBE, INRA) and at the Institut Charles Gerhardt (MACS, CNRS). Dr. Barakat has published over 120 papers in international journals, 4 patents, and 6 book chapters.
