This volume addresses SDG 7 (Affordable and Clean Energy) and SDG 12 (Sustainable Consumption and Production). By 2030, therefore, people have to substantially increase their share of renewable energy. The book focuses on waste as primary sources of biomass that can fulfill energy requirements for sustainable development. It also discusses various related topics such as energy production methods, a mathematical model for the development of a sustainable biofuels supply chain, economic analysis, optimization techniques, multiple-criteria decision-making and mixed-integer linear programming and existing and emerging policies that encourage the switch to renewable energy. It is committed to fusing science and technology in a way that assures a sustainable future and addresses major topics on biofuels: biomass, bioenergy, biodiesel, bioethanol, biogas modelling and their supply chain management, inventory control and optimization.

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all United Nations Member countries in 2015, provides a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future. The book uses an interdisciplinary approach and provides solutions to energy requirements by using emerging technology and nanotechnologies. It explores a technical breakdown of the tools that may be utilized to convert biomass into usable energy forms. At the end of the book, a description of the social and economic aspects of renewable energy and minimization of bioenergy cost is presented. The book is useful to students, researchers, industry experts and anybody in the adoption of renewable energy. It covers the complete course in the fundamentals of biomass feedstock and their supply chain management resources at the graduate level in engineering.

Autorentext

Anand Chauhan is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Mathematics at Graphic Era University, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India. With more than 15 years of teaching and research experience, he has published more than 60 research papers in several national and international peer-reviewed journals. He has attended more than 30 national and international conferences, seminars and workshops. An author/coauthor of more than seven books, Dr. Chauhan is actively involved in teaching and research of operations research, mathematical modelling and optimization, numerical methods, discrete mathematics, probability and statistics and computer-based numerical and statistical technique. An active life member of the Indian Mathematical Society, Indian Science Congress Association and Operational Research Society of India, Dr. Chauhan has been reviewer of many national and international journals.

Harish Chandra Joshi is Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemistry at Graphic Era University, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India. He has done Ph.D. in Chemistry from Uttarakhand Technical University, Dehradun. With more than 9 years of teaching and research experience, he has been awarded the "Young Researcher in Chemistry". With more than 25 research papers published in several SCI and Scopus-indexed journals, he also has published 4 books in addition to two chapters and two articles in scientific magazines. He has completed a research project funded by the International Project Indo-Russian DST RFBR. An active researcher in research on biofuel, biomass, natural product and environmental chemistry, Dr. Joshi is an active member of the Indian Association of Nuclear Chemists and Allied Scientists (BARC, India) and the American Chemical Society (USA).