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This book addresses the needs of students, researchers, as well as engineers and other professionals or readers interested in recent advances of biofuel and efficient waste management. In the context of energy consumption, over 85% of the total consumed energy comes from non-renewable fossil resources. Developing new renewable energy resources, especially biofuel production from wastes, has received increasing attention. The book is organized into three sections, namely Section I: Conventional waste management; Section II: From waste to green energy; and Section III: Case studies and future perspectives. Each section presents topic-specific chapters, which contain comprehensive and advanced knowledge of the subjects. Overall, the book covers the recent advances, breakthroughs, challenges, and future perspectives of waste-to-energy approach using different kinds of wastes as a feedstock for alternative biofuels and other integrated approaches such as wastewater treatment, plastic degradation, and CO2 sequestration in a cost-effective and eco-friendly way. In addition, different routes of waste recycling for enhanced biofuel production and case studies are presented with environmental and economic analysis. The presented case studies and future perspectives under Section III complement the chapters as they are authored by experts from bioenergy businesses who actually encounter real-world problems.

Waste-to-Energy: Recent Developments and Future Perspectives towards Circular Economy

Chapter 1. An overview of municipal wastes.- Chapter 2. Different waste management methods.- Chapter 3. Biofuels: an overview.- Chapter 4. Direct combustion of wastes.- Chapter 5. Thermochemical conversion of wastes.- Chapter 6. Waste fermentation for energy recovery.- Chapter 7. Esterification/transesterification of wastes for biodiesel production.- Chapter 8. Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) for waste recycling and energy production.- Chapter 9. Energy recovery from fat, oil and grease (FOG).- Chapter 10. Energy recovery from nuisance algal blooms and residues.- Chapter 11. Waste energy recovery.- Chapter 12. CO₂-mediated energy conversion.- Chapter 13. Plastic recycling for energy production.- Chapter 14. Microbial-mediated lignocellulose conversion to biodiesel.- Chapter 15. Case studies in Europe.- Chapter 16. Case studies in Asia.- Chapter 17. Case studies in America.- Chapter 18. Economic feasibility of waste-to-energy routes.- Chapter 19. Integrated approaches and future perspectives.