Eco-Friendly Approaches for Converting Organic Waste to Bioenergy for Sustainable Development

The incessant generation of waste materials and their management affect the environment’s safety and protection. Traditional waste management practices have shown a lack of proper measures. Thus, developing efficient technologies to convert waste into bioenergy through eco-friendly and sustainable approaches is vital. Due to climate change and carbon footprint, there is a great need to establish high-energy fuels such as biodiesel, bioethanol, and biogas from organic bio-wastes. This chapter demonstrates the potential for generating bioenergy/biofuels from various types of bio-waste through different thermochemical and biochemical routes. In addition, the chapter addresses the biochemical and thermochemical technologies to convert organic wastes into bioenergy for sustainable development. It has also conferred the origin of various organic wastes with organic waste-based biorefinery concepts concerning current and future uses. Thus, the intensification of strategies to convert organic waste into bioenergy production should be considered for economic, social, and environmental development. © 2025 Scrivener Publishing LLC.

Authors
Jaiswal K.K. , Chowdhury C.R. , Yadav D. , Dutta S. , Banerjee I. , Jaiswal K.S. , Ramaswamy A.P. , Mrinal , Sangmesh B. , Jaiswal A.K. , Kumar V. , Kanny K.
Publisher
Wiley
Language
English
Pages
271-302
Status
Published
Year
2024
Organizations
  • 1 Bioprocess Engineering Laboratory, Department of Green Energy Technology, Pondicherry University, Puducherry, India
  • 2 Department of Food Science, Czech University of Life Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
  • 3 Composite Research Group, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa
  • 4 Bredesen Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Education, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States
  • 5 Department of Biochemistry & Cellular and Molecular Biology, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States
  • 6 Laboratory for Energy Materials and Sustainability, Department of Green Energy Technology, Pondicherry University, Puducherry, India
  • 7 School of Engineering, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
  • 8 School of Food Science and Environmental Health, Faculty of Sciences and Health, Technological University Dublin - City Campus, Central Quad, Grangegorman, Dublin, Ireland
  • 9 Algal Research and Bioenergy Lab, Department of Food Science and Technology, Graphic Era (Deemed to Be University), Uttarakhand, Dehradun, India
  • 10 Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University), Moscow, Russian Federation
Keywords
Bio-waste; biochemical processes; bioenergy and biofuels; thermochemical conversion; waste management

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