Biogas in the Circular Economy
Technology, Production, and Applications
- 1st Edition - August 22, 2025
- Latest edition
- Editors: Hassan El Bari, Abdellatif Barakat
- Language: English
Biogas in the Circular Economy: Technology, Production and Applications explains biogas technology in the context of a circular economy, allowing for zero waste by valori… Read more
Description
Description
This new volume in the Woodhead Series in Bioenergy enables the reader to understand how biogas technology can be utilized to reach circular economy objectives. It will be valuable to all those with an interest in biogas technology, bioenergy, and bioeconomy, including researchers, advanced students, faculty, engineers, scientists, R&D, industry practitioners, and policymakers.
Key features
Key features
- Presents advanced and sustainable approaches to digestate management for biogas production
- Describes the latest technologies in biogas separation and purification as part of the circular economy
- Explores biomethane and biohydrogen in the context of transport, power production, and the water-energy-food nexus
- Addresses carbon neutrality challenges, lifecycle assessment, and cost-benefit analysis
Readership
Readership
Table of contents
Table of contents
2. Innovative biogas digester technology
3. Artificial neural networks and genetic algorithms for modeling and optimizing biogas production
4. Applications and future of in-situ biogas purification and upgrading technologies
5. Carbon neutrality and challenges in biogas economy: Bioeconomy case studies
6. Valorization of digestate as a biofertilizer and its energy recovery using thermochemical conversion
7. Biomethane and as an innovative solution for decarbonized transport
8. Biomethane in the water-energy-food nexus context
9. Biohydrogen production for power and transport
10. Life cycle assessment and cost-benefit analysis of biogas and biohydrogen production
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: August 22, 2025
- Language: English
About the editors
About the editors
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Hassan El Bari
Prof. Hassan El Bari is a full professor at Ibn Tofail University, in Morocco. He has a PhD in Material Sciences from INPL (France) and a "Doctorat d’Etat" in Mechanical Engineering from the University Mohamed V-Morocco. Prof. El Bari is the President of the Moroccan Association of Solid Waste. He was Master Degree Coordinator for Waste Management (2010–2014) and has a long experience in teaching subjects related to waste management, bioenergy, and biogas technology. He has also been involved in many funded projects as a coordinator and partner. Prof. El Bari is an Associate Editor for the Cleaner Waste Systems Journal (Elsevier) and for Applied Science and Engineering Progress. He is co-editor of the books “Ecological Sustainable Waste Management—Energetic Utilization of Organic Waste” (2018), "Waste Management in Developing Countries” (2023), and “Biogas in the Circular Economy: Technology, Production, and Applications” (2025).
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Abdellatif Barakat
Abdellatif Barakat is a Director Researcher in bioprocess engineering and valorization of biomass at UMR IATE, INRAE, Montpellier University (Montpellier Agro Institute), in France. He is also affiliated with CAES, University Mohammed VI Polytechnic (UM6P), Benguérir, Morocco. He received his PhD in chemistry and physicochemical of biopolymers from Reims University, France. He has published over 150 papers in international journals, 4 patents, and 6 book chapters.