Sustainable Solutions for Environmental Pollution
Volume 1
Waste Management and Value-Added Products
Edited by
Nour Shafik El-Gendy
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Preface
There is a continuous worldwide growth in population which consequently leads to a proliferation of industrial and agricultural activities and a growth in the annual consumption of energy, food, water and different agricultural crops, as well as an upturn of global warming and the produced solid wastes. These come with the depletion of fossil fuel reserves, in addition to the worldwide massive water scarcity problem and issues related to climate change, besides the enormous air, soil and water pollution. Further, solid waste management (SWM) is considered nowadays as a critical public issue because of the negative impact of such wastes on the environment, climate, ecosystem, biodiversity and human health.
The main concern worldwide nowadays is how to achieve the seventeen goals of sustainable development (SDGs) for: (1) attaining water and food security for all, (2) saving life on land and under water, (3) assuring the presence of clean and renewable energy, (4) overcoming poverty, (5) securing decent work as much as it could be for all, (6) diminishing the problem of climate change, (7) guaranteeing growth in innovation, the economy and different industrial sectors, (8) increasing awareness of the concept of a circular economy for ensuring responsible sustainable consumption and production patterns.
This book reports some of the global researchers’ activities on the nexus of biofuels, biorefineries, sustainable energy, environment, climate change, water, health, and the economy. It focuses on the occurred positive impacts on air, water, land use, food, society, and economy via the valorization of different available resources into sustainable biofuels and bio-products.
The chapters are: Chapter 1-An Overview of Electro-Fermentation as a Platform for Future Biorefineries; Chapter 2-Biodiesel Sustainability: Challenges and Perspectives; Chapter 3-Multidisciplinary Sides of Environmental Engineering and Sustainability; Chapter 4-Biofuels; Chapter 5-Sustainable Valorization of Waste Cooking Oil into Biofuels and Green Chemicals: Recent Trends, Opportunities and Challenges; Chapter 6-Waste Valorization: Physical, Chemical, and Biological Routes; Chapter 7-Electrocoagulation Process in the Treatment of Landfill Leachate; Chapter 8-Sustainable Solutions for Environmental Pollutants from Solid Waste Landfills; Chapter 9-Progress on Ionic Liquid Pre-Treatment for Lignocellulosic Biomass Valorization into Biofuels and Bio-Products; Chapter 10-Septage Characterization and Sustainable Fecal Sludge Management in Rural Nablus, Palestine; Chapter 11-Lipase Catalyzed Reactions: A Promising Approach for Clean Synthesis of Oleochemicals; Chapter 12-Seaweeds for Sustainable Development.
Thus, this book addresses the different multidisciplinary sides of environmental and sustainable development engineering which is a subsystem of sustainable development using system theory and its related integrated system approach. It provides a state-of-the-art presentation on how to reach a sustainable and clean environment via waste management and valorization of different readily available resources into biofuels, biorefineries and different value-added products. It discusses the challenges and opportunities for enlarging the world markets of biofuels, biorefineries and bio-products and how countries can set up policies to decrease fossil fuel dependency and petro-based
