Overview
- Highlights solid-state fermentation of vegetable and fruit processing wastes into biocommodities and biofuels
- Presents novel industrial applications of vegetables and fruit wastes
- Provides life cycle assessments of VFWs and VFW-based processes and products.
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This book puts together all aspects of valorization of vegetable and fruit wastes (VFWs) into different biocommodities and platform chemicals using fermentation and non-fermentation processes. VFWs are a special group of solid waste (biomass) that needs to be characterized to understand the nature of applications as raw materials and to propose an appropriate methodology for bioprocessing into value-added commodities. VFWs provide favorable conditions for the growth of microorganisms, and this opens up great opportunities for their use in fermentation processes. For example, VFWs can be used as a solid support, carbon, and nutrient source in fermentation for the production of a variety of value-added biocommodities such as enzymes, single-cell proteins, bioadsorbents, phenolic bioactive compounds, aroma and flavor compounds, and platform chemicals like lactic acid, bioethanol, and biobutanol. Researchers and academics in the area of environmental science and engineering, chemical engineering, biotechnology, life science, and food science and technology, undergraduate and graduate students, industry professionals, and policymakers will find this publication useful. Bioprocessing of agro-wastes is a recent technology for developing novel bioproducts. This book will also be of interest to the general public as a reference for all those interested in waste management.
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Bioactive Compounds and Extraction Methods
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Mushrooms, Livestock Feeds and Other Bioproducts
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Enzymes, Biofuels and Other Novel Applications
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Dr. Ramesh C. Ray is a former Principal Scientist (Microbiology) and Head of the ICAR- Central Tuber Crops Research Institute (Regional Centre), Bhubaneswar, India. He has 37 years of research experience in agriculture and food microbiology, published 140 research and review papers in national and international journals, 80 books chapters, edited 22 books, and authored 3 books, and received more than 5450 citations. He is a distinguished fellow of the prestigious National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, New Delhi, India, National Academy of Biological Sciences, Chennai, India, and 8 other scientific societies.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Fruits and Vegetable Wastes
Book Subtitle: Valorization to Bioproducts and Platform Chemicals
Editors: Ramesh C. Ray
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-9527-8
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-9526-1Published: 17 November 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-9529-2Published: 18 November 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-9527-8Published: 16 November 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 448
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Waste Management/Waste Technology, Food Science, Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering, Agriculture, Ecology, Biotechnology