Production of Biofuels and Chemicals from Sustainable Recycling of Organic Solid Waste

Part I: Introduction.- Chapter 1. Sustainable technologies for recycling organic solid wastes.- Part II: Production of Biofuels and Chemicals by Thermo-chemical Conversion Processes.- Chapter 2. Recent advances in the catalytic co-pyrolysis of lignocellulosic biomass and different polymer wastes: from laboratory scale to pilot plant.- Chapter 3. Roadmap to Low-Cost Catalytic Pyrolysis of Plastic Wastes for Production of Liquid Fuels.- Chapter 4. Production of Valuable Compounds from Leaves by Supercritical CO2 Extraction.- Part III: Production of Biofuels and Chemicals by Biodegradation.- Chapter 5. Recovery of biohydrogen and biomethane by anaerobic fermentation of organic solid waste.- Chapter 6 Recycling of multiple organic solid wastes into biogas via anaerobic digestion.- Chapter 7. Recycling of multiple organic solid wastes into chemicals via biodegradation.- Part IV Production of Liquid Biofuels with New Technologies.- Chapter 8. Producing value-added products from organic bioresources via Photo-BioCatalytic processes.- Chapter 9. Depolymerisation of fossil fuel and biomass-derived polyesters.- Chapter 10 Producing Value-added Products from Organic Solid Wastes with Mechanochemical Processes.- Chapter 11. Fundamentals of Hydrothermal Processing of Biomass-Related Molecules for Converting Organic Solid Wastes into Chemical Products.- Chapter 12 Third Generation Biorefineries Using Micro- and Macro-Algae.- Part V. Techno-Economic Analysis.- Chapter 13. Prospects and perspectives for producing biodiesel, bioethanol and bio-chemicals from fruit waste: Case study in Brazil and Serbia.- Chapter 14. Sustainable Recycling and Valorization of Organic Solid Wastes for Fuels and Fertilizers.

Zhen Fang is a Professor and Leader of the Biomass Group at Nanjing Agricultural University. He is the inventor of the "fast hydrolysis" process, the elected fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering. Professor Fang specializes in thermal/biochemical conversion of biomass, nanocatalyst synthesis and their applications, pretreatment of biomass for biorefineries, and supercritical fluid processes. He holds Ph.D.s from China Agricultural University and McGill University. Professor Fang is Associate Editor of the international journals, Biotechnology for Biofuels and Journal of Renewable Materials. He has more than 20 years of research experience in the field of renewable energy and green technologies at top universities and institutes around the globe, including 1 year in Spain (University of Zaragoza), 3 years in Japan (Biomass Technology Research Center, AIST; Tohoku University), and more than 8 years in Canada (McGill) in renewable energy and green technologies.