Valorization of Biomass Waste Materials, a Biorefinery Concept

Oluwatoyin Joseph Gbadeyan · Patrick Sekoai · Viren Chunilall

Oct 2024 · Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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Waste has become an emerging problem threatening the ecosystem, given the harmful content generated from the global afterlife of waste. These problems affect all spheres of life, and the waste must be controlled, managed, or converted to new products. The fundamental ways of addressing the increasing global flows of waste revealed through management processes have significantly increased business opportunities. Waste must be transformed into valuable products to reduce pollution, create jobs, and an environmentally pleasant atmosphere. Researchers have invented methods of converting waste into value-added products, aiming toward waste management and reduction. Despite considerable advances, the reuse and recycling of agricultural waste as biomass resources (renewable feedstock for renewable energy generation and specialty chemicals) from several natural sources are underutilized. This collection of essays discusses different biomass waste sources, biomass feedstocks characterization, pre-treatment and techniques for valorizing biomass to value-added products, and policies and regulations on the circular economy.

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Dr Oluwatoyin Joseph Gbadeyan is a Postdoctoral Researcher with numerous publications in the biomass valorization and bio composite domain. His research primarily focuses on composite, biocomposite, nanocomposite, tribology, and valorizing wastes, where various market-based products are produced from these feedstocks using robust and sustainable technologies.

Patrick Sekoai is a Senior Researcher at the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research’s (CSIR) Biorefinery Industry Development Facility (BIDF), South Africa. He has a scientific career that spans almost a decade in Microbial Biotechnology and Bioprocessing. His research is primarily focused on the upcycling of bio-wastes (agricultural, municipal & industrial) where various market-based products are produced from these feedstocks using novel microbial-driven processes.

Dr Viren Chunilall is the Research Group Leader at the Biorefinery Industry Development Facility of the CSIR based in Durban, South Africa. He has a PhD in Chemistry and is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), South Africa. He has managed industry-based and public sector funded projects in the Biorefinery Research domain.

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