This book equips readers with the essential tools and knowledge to succeed in AD and biorefinery operations, and is very useful guide for students, researchers, and industry professionals working with, or looking to get into, research with anaerobic digestion, resource recovery, integrated biorefinery, and bioenergy technologies. The book will also provide useful information for decision makers, policymakers, and consultants working to make their business more sustainable and focus on circular economy practices.
Table of Contents
1. Fundamentals of anaerobic digestion2 Anaerobic biorefinery towards organic waste valorization
3. Resource recovery from biomass
4. Pre-treatment for enhancing anaerobic digestion
5. Inhibition of anaerobic digestion by toxic compounds
6. Mathematical Modeling
7. Anaerobic digestion of domestic sewage for methanization
8. Anaerobic digestion of industrial wastewaters for methanization
9. Applying the biohydrogen platform for solid and liquid biomass
10. Production of volatile fatty acids (VFA) and applying the carboxylic platform for solid and liquid biomass
11. Anaerobic digestion of lignocellulosic biomass (LB)
12 Anaerobic digestion of food waste
13. Anaerobic digestion of manure
14. Sludge treatment and recovery
15. Biogas treatment and upgrading technologies for solid and liquid biomass
16. Power-to-X based on biogas from Anaerobic Digestion Processes
17. Economical Evaluation and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) on Anaerobic Digestion
Authors
Andr� Bezerra dos Santos Professor, Department of Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering, Federal University of Cear�, Brazil.Andr� dos Santos holds a bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from the Federal University of Cear�, Brazil (1998) and a Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences from Wageningen University, The Netherlands (2005). He is a Full/Titular Professor at the Department of Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering, Federal University of Cear�, Brazil. He has worked for 25 years in the field of environmental technology, and currently is editor-in-chief of two prestigious Brazilian journals, associate editor of the Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering (Elsevier) and Journal of Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste (ASCE), and ad-hoc of more than forty journals.. He has already received many professional and scientific prizes, such as Top-25 most cited articles from Bioresource Technology from 2007 - 2010, Elsevier (2010).
Renato Carrh� Leit�o Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa), State University of Cear�, Brazil.Renato Carrh� Leit�o holds a bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from the Federal University of Cear�, Brazil (1988) and a Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences from Wageningen University, The Netherlands (2004). From 1991 to 2000 he worked at the Water Resources Office of Cear� State as design analyst; at the Meteorological and Water Resource Foundation of Cear� State as environmental engineer, at the private firm Gaia Environmental Consulting S/A as managing partner and CEO, and finally at the private firm Engesoft Engineering and Consulting S/A as project/design manager. Since 2016, he is Senior Researcher at the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) and Permanent Professor at the Post Graduate Program in Natural Science, State University of Ceara, Brazil, where he coordinates investigation on environmental management, agro-industrial waste and wastewater treatment and reuse, anaerobic digestion of agro-industrial waste(water) for biogas, hydrogen and organic acids production, and on process development for separation of high added-value product from lignocellulosic biomass.
