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Bioenergy Recovery from Biomass Waste

  • 1st Edition - April 15, 2026
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Bing-Jie Ni, Gang Luo
  • Language: English

Bioenergy Recovery from Biomass Waste provides a new paradigm to gain insight into the technical management of biomass waste conversion into clean energy and products such as heat,… Read more

Description

Bioenergy Recovery from Biomass Waste provides a new paradigm to gain insight into the technical management of biomass waste conversion into clean energy and products such as heat, electricity, gaseous and liquid biofuels, chemicals, and fertilizers. The book discusses chemical and biological treatment methods for sludge, food wastes, algae, lignocellulosic waste and livestock manure, providing a comprehensive understanding of biomass resource treatment. Detailed chapters consider the relevant environmental risks during the biomass conversion process, explore practical applications, and provide theoretical guidance for improving the sustainability of waste management, analyzing and comparing the impact of different types of treatment technologies in terms of greenhouse gas emissions and reductions. Finally, current policies, bottlenecks and opportunities for waste treatment technologies and high value products are addressed. This new volume in the Woodhead Series in Bioenergy is of interest to all those with an interest in biomass waste treatment, resource recovery, bioenergy, and clean energy, including graduate students, researchers, faculty, engineers, R&D, industry professionals, and policy makers.

Key features

  • Offers in-depth coverage of characteristics, treatment methods, and high-value products derived from biomass
  • Covers sources such as municipal wastewater, sludge, food wastes, agriculture wastes, algae, and animal wastes
  • Assesses efficiency and advantages and disadvantages of various technologies for different biomass sources
  • Considers environmental risks, greenhouse gas emissions, and reductions and related sustainability issues

Readership

Graduate students, researchers, academics and faculty across bioenergy, renewable energy, environmental engineering, biology, chemical engineering, and sustainability

Table of contents

1. Anaerobic digestion of sludge

2. Sludge composting

3. Production of medium chain fatty acids from sludge

4. Sludge pyrolysis

5. Anaerobic digestion of food waste

6. Composting of food waste

7. High-value products extracted from food waste

8. Algae preparation of bioenergy

9. Algae preparation of high-value products

10. Anaerobic digestion of lignocellulosic biomass

11. High value conversion of lignocellulosic biomass

12. Livestock manure treatment

13. Greenhouse gas reduction and life cycle assessment

14. Policies, bottlenecks, opportunities in biomass waste treatment

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: April 16, 2026
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Bing-Jie Ni

Professor Bing-Jie Ni isan ARC Future Fellow at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). He has been working in the field of environmental technology and wastewater treatment, particularly transforming wastes or wastewater from a troublesome pollutant to a valuable resource. Prof. Ni has published 2 research books, 30 book chapters, and more than 400 papers in refereed ISI journals. He served as Lead Guest Editor for Water Research (Elsevier, Nature index journal), Editorial Advisory Board for Environmental Science and Technology (ACS, Nature index journal), Editor for Sustainable Horizons (Elsevier), Associate Editor for Journal of Cleaner Production (Elsevier), Environmental Chemistry Letters (Springer), Environmental Research (Elsevier), etc. Prof. Ni is a Highly Cited Researcher - Clarivate Analytics - Web of Science. He is a Mendeley Data top 2% Cited Researchers in the world in all academic disciplines. He has been continuously recognized as a Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Highly Cited Researcher since 2020.

Affiliations and expertise
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia

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Gang Luo

Prof. Gang Luo is a Full Professor at Fudan University, in Shanghai, China. His current research interests include anaerobic digestion, anaerobic microbiology, wastewater treatments, hydrothermal conversion and biological syngas conversion. His projects were mainly funded by NSFC, MOST and the Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality. He has published more than 100 ISI publications in well-known journals, including Environmental Science and Technology and Water Research, with total citations of over 5,000. He also published 4 book chapters and obtained 2 patents. Prof. Luo is serving as a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Frontiers Environmental Science Engineering and as a guest editor of several other journals.

Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

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