This book lays out commercial perspectives on the reclamation of biochemicals from waste biomass, showing that they possess valuable organic matter which can be diverted towards high value products ranging from polymers to antibiotics to platform chemicals.

Agro-industrial wastes are end-products emerging after industrial processing operations and also from their treatment and disposal e.g. solid fruit wastes and sludge. The agro-industrial wastes are often present in multiphase and comprise multicomponent. Nevertheless, these wastes are a goldmine as they possess valuable organic matter which can be diverted towards high value products ranging from polymers to antibiotics to platform chemicals. There have been plenty of books published on bioenergy, enzymes and organic acids, among others. However, this emerging field of biochemical has not yet been covered so far which is an important entity of the biorefinery model from waste biomass and needs to be understood from fundamental, applied as well as commercial perspective which has been laid out in this book.

This book provides information on high value biochemicals produced in small quantities Provides information on high value biochemicals produced in small quantities Chapters present up-to-date and detailed information on agro-industrial waste residues and bioconversion technology to obtain high value biochemicals of economic importance Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Inhalt
Introduction.- Sources, types and management strategies of agro-industrial wastes.- Pretreatment strategies to enhance vallue addition of agro-industrial wastes.- Sequestration of carbon through value-addition approach.- Microbial Pigments.- Aroma compounds and fragrances.- Antioxidants.- Antibiotics.- Plant growth hormones and other phytochemicals.- Probiotics.- Prebiotics.- Small peptides and anti-cancer compounds.- Antimicrobial compounds.- Single cell proteins.- Biopolymers/Biopolysaccharides.- Biosurfactants.- Index.