Discusses reutilization of waste into useful products
Looks at environmental concerns related to waste
Covers value generation from industrial, agricultural, as well as municipal waste

Discusses the reutilization of waste to yield useful products Addresses environmental concerns related to waste Covers value generation from industrial, agricultural and municipal waste

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Dr Reeta Rani Singhania MSc, PhD is a DBT- Bioscience Energy Overseas Fellow working at DBT-IOC Center for Advanced Bioenergy Research, Faridabad, India in the LC Bioethanol Program. She completed her PhD in Biotechnology, prior to pursuing postdoctoral studies at the EPFL, Switzerland and University Blaise Pascal, France. She has more than 35 publications to her credit. She is the recipient of several awards including the AU CBT Excellence award and IFIBiop Young Scientist award. She has served as a guest editor for special issues of RENE and BITE.

Dr Rashmi Avinash Agarwal is a young scientist fellow at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK). She completed her doctoral degree at the IITK with a dissertation on "Coordination Polymers of Transition Metal Ions with Benzimidazole Based Ligands: Single-Crystal to Single-Crystal (SC-SC) Transformations, Gas Storage and Magnetic Studies". Her fields of interest include Supramolecular Chemistry, CoordinationChemistry, Coordination Polymers, Organic and Inorganic Synthesis, Hydrothermal Synthesis of Coordination Polymers, Crystallization, and Crystal Structure Determination. She has published over 20 journal papers.

Prof Praveen Kumar Ramanujam is Head of the Biotechnology Department at Arunai Engineering College, Tiruvannamalai, India. His area of research includes renewable energy from biomass and municipal waste. He has authored more than 52 publications in peer-reviewed journals and holds four patents. He is currently, Vice-President of "Engineers Without Borders - India (EWB-India)," Chennai chapter. He received the "Outstanding Young Investigator Award" for excellence in research and teaching in a rural setting, by Raise.Rural.

Dr Rajeev K Sukumaran is a senior scientist at the CSIR-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (CSIR-NIIST) in Trivandrum, India. He currently heads the Biofuels and Biorefineries Section of the CSIR-NIIST's Microbial Processes and Technology Division. He received his PhD in Biotechnology from CUSAT and completed postdoctoral training in Molecular Immunology and Stem Cell Biology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York and National University Hospital, Singapore. His current research interests include: developing enzymes for biomass conversion, heterologous protein expression in fungi, and the molecular biology of cellulase gene regulation. He has authored more than 85 publications.

Zusammenfassung
Discusses reutilization of waste into useful products
Looks at environmental concerns related to waste
Covers value generation from industrial, agricultural, as well as municipal waste

Inhalt
Introduction to Waste to Wealth.- Biopolymers from Wastes to High Value Products in Biomedicine.- Biosurfactants from Processed Wastes.- Synthesis of Value Added Biomimetic Material of Hydroxyapatite using Aqueous Calcereous Fish Wastes.- Utilization of Crude Glycerol from Biodiesel Industry for the Production of Value added Bioproducts.- Utilization of Citrus Waste Biomass for Antioxidant Production by Solid-State Fermentation.- Coffee Husk: A Potential Agro-Residue for Bioprocess.- Sustainable Valorization of Seafood Processing By-Products/Discards.- Bioeconomy and Biorefinery: Valorization of Hemicellulose from Lignocellulosic Biomass and Potential Use of Avocado Residues as a Promising Resource of Bioproducts.- Land Applications of Biochar: An Emerging Area.- Vermicomposting: A Green Technology for Organic Waste Management.- Bioelectricity Generation from Organic Wastes.- Economics of Solid Waste Management.- Biodiesel from Microalgae.- Food Waste Volarization by Microalage.- HighValue Co-Products from Algae- An Innovational Way to Deal with Advance Algal Industry.- Wastewater Algae to Value Added Products.- The Pretreatment Technologies for Deconstruction of Lignocellulosic Biomass.- Bioethanol Production from Sugarcane Green Harvest Residues using Auxin Assisted Pretreatment.- Cellulosic Biomass Hydrolyzing Enzymes.- Consolidated Bioprocessing at High Temperature.- Wastes Valorization to Fuel and Chemicals through Pyrolysis: Technology, Feedstock, Products and Economic Analysis. <p