Waste-to-Energy: Recent Developments and Future Perspectives towards Circular Economy

This book addresses the needs of students, researchers, as well as engineers and other professionals or readers interested in recent advances of biofuel and efficient waste management. In the context of energy consumption, over 85% of the total consumed energy comes from non-renewable fossil resources. Developing new renewable energy resources, especially biofuel production from wastes, has received increasing attention. The book is organized into three sections, namely Section I: Conventional waste management; Section II: From waste to green energy; and Section III: Case studies and future perspectives. Each section presents topic-specific chapters, which contain comprehensive and advanced knowledge of the subjects. Overall, the book covers the recent advances, breakthroughs, challenges, and future perspectives of waste-to-energy approach using different kinds of wastes as a feedstock for alternative biofuels and other integrated approaches such as wastewater treatment, plastic degradation, and CO2 sequestration in a cost-effective and eco-friendly way. In addition, different routes of waste recycling for enhanced biofuel production and case studies are presented with environmental and economic analysis. The presented case studies and future perspectives under Section III complement the chapters as they are authored by experts from bioenergy businesses who actually encounter real-world problems.

Prof. Abd El-Fatah Abomohra is a Professor of Environmental Engineering at Chengdu University, Chengdu, China since 2019. He received his PhD in 2012 through a cooperation program between Tanta University (Egypt) and Hamburg University (Germany) funded by Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD). He has work experience of 20 years at different universities as research assistant, lecturer, associate professor, and professor. He authored seven books and of more than 100 contributions published in SCI index journals. He was one of the World’s Top 2% of Scientists List published by Stanford University in 2020. His research group is primarily working on bioenergy production from different biomass feedstocks and wastes.

Prof. Qingyuan Wang is a full Professor at Sichuan University since 2001, and currently he is the president of Chengdu University. He received his PhD in 1998 from Ecole Centrale Paris, France, followed by postdoctoral experience from 1999 to 2003 in Faculty of Engineering of Purdue University, and JSPS fellow at Kagoshima University, Japan. He served as a visiting Professor at Uni Paris-Sud, TU-Clausthal, Uni New Hampshire and Honorary Professor of Uni Liverpool & RMIT. He is also a fellow of International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM). Prof. Wang has published over 200 papers in SCI index journals, and is one of the Most Cited Chinese Researchers (Elsevier 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020). He was one of the World’s Top 2% of Scientists List published by Stanford University in 2020. His research team is focusing on Green Materials, Material Science & Solid Mechanics, Very High Cycle Fatigue (VHCF), Mechanical Behavior of Structural Materials and Structures, Composite Repairs of damaged Structures.

Prof. Jin Huang is a Professor of Environmental Engineering at Chengdu University, Chengdu, China since 2010. She received her PhD in 2008 from Sichuan University, Chengdu,China. She has a work experience of 19 years at Chengdu University as Associate Professor, and Professor. In addition, she has a work experience in industry sector for 7 years as engineer to enhance the municipal waste recycling and wastewater treatment towards green net-zero utilization. She authored 13 papers related to municipal waste management published in international journals.