Food Waste to Green Fuel: Trend & Development

This edited book covers all the existing possibilities of using food waste as a potential, alternative and ‘ready to use’, feed stock for biofuels production. Moreover, it also presents all the sustainable and economically feasible biofuels option with their details strategies, mechanism, advantages, draw backs and future scope. It also explores in depth knowledge of food waste, and details the processing as well as opportunities to utilize it at for mass scale biofuels production. The practical feasibility and economic sustainability of biofuels production is still suffering with its cost intensity and lack of rigorous scientific strategies as well as inputs to explore it on further at upscale level. Low cost, carbon rich, economic and environmental friendly feedstock, may have strong possibilities to reduce the overall biofuels production cost and the book is based on this strategy. The book is of interest to academicians and researchers interested in industries related to biofuels production, food processing industries and industries related to waste valorization.

Dr. Neha Srivastava has received PhD in Biotechnology from Department of Molecular and Cellular Engineering, SHIATS, India in 2016 in the area of bioenergy. She worked in Department of Chemical Engineering and Technology, IIT (BHU) Varanasi, India. She has published more than 28 research articles in the in peer reviewed journals of SCI impact factor and have filed 03 patents, 1 technology transfer and 7 published book of international renowned publisher. She has many popular social scientific articles in reputed newspapers and has 11 potential deposited microorganisms in her credit. Presently, she is working on bioprocess technology and biofuels production (Microbial screening and enzymes; production and enhancement, biohydrogen production from waste biomass, bioethanol production).

Dr. Maqsood Ahmad Malik is working as Associate Professor in Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia. He authored more than 40 publications and has membership of prestigious scientific societies. His research expertise is related to nanomaterial synthesis and its various applications. His detailed CV has been attached with this book proposal.