Biotransformation of Waste Biomass into High Value Biochemicals

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.

List of contents

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.

Summary

Agro-industrial wastes are end-products emerging after industrial processing operations and also from their treatment and disposal e.g. 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.

Product details

• Assisted by: Satinder Kaur Brar (Editor), Gurpreet Singh Dhillon (Editor), Marcelo Fernandes (Editor), Carlos Ricardo Soccol (Editor), Gurpree Singh Dhillon (Editor), Gurpreet Singh Dhillon (Editor), Carlos Ricardo Soccol (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2016
• EAN: 9781493954001
• ISBN: 978-1-4939-5400-1
• No. of pages: 504
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 236 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 780 g
• Illustrations: XV, 504 p. 53 illus., 26 illus. in color.
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Structural and environmental engineering; B, biotechnology, Earth and Environmental Science, Waste Management, Botany & plant sciences, Waste Management/Waste Technology, Waste treatment & disposal, Plant breeding, Plant Breeding/Biotechnology, Plant Biotechnology