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Waste Valorisation
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in
Renewable Resources
Series Editor:
Christian V. Stevens, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Belgium
Forthcoming Titles:
Biobased Packaging: Material, Environmental and Economic Aspects
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Andrew J. Hunt, Nontipa Supanchaiyamat, Kaewta Jetsrisuparb, Jesper T.N. Knijnenburg
Waste Valorisation
Waste Streams in a Circular
Economy
Edited by
GUNEET KAUR
Department of Biology, Hong Kong Baptist University,
Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong
and
Department of Civil Engineering, York University, Toronto, Canada
CHONG LI
Shenzhen Branch, Guangdong Laboratory for Lingnan Modern Agriculture,
Genome Analysis Laboratory of the Ministry of Agriculture,
Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen,
Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shenzhen, China
XIAOFENG YANG
School of Biology and Biological Engineering,
South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China
This edition first published 2021
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Contents
2 Waste as a Bioresource 13
Gayatri Suresh, Joseph Sebastian and Satinder Kaur Brar
2.1 Introduction 13
2.2 Waste Streams and Their Suitability as Feedstock for Valorisation: Is
All Waste a Resource? 14
viii Contents
3 Treatment of Waste 33
Ravindran Balasubramani, Vasanthy Muthunarayanan, Karthika Arumugam,
Rajiv Periakaruppan, Archana Singh, Soon Woong Chang, Thamaraiselvi
Chandran, Gopal Shankar Singh and Selvakumar Muniraj
3.1 Introduction 33
3.2 Solid Waste Management 34
3.2.1 E-waste Management 34
3.2.2 Hazardous Waste Management 35
3.2.3 Biomedical Waste Management 35
3.2.4 Plastic Waste Management 35
3.2.5 Solid Waste Management Options 35
3.3 General Approach for Waste Treatment and Conversion to
Value-added Products: Biochemical, Mechanical, and
Thermochemical 36
3.3.1 Conventional Treatment 36
3.3.2 Biological/Biochemical Treatment 37
3.3.3 Thermal Methods 40
3.3.4 Open Burning 40
3.3.5 Mechanical Treatment 40
3.4 Factors Influencing Selection of an Appropriate Valorisation
Technique for Specific Waste Types 42
3.4.1 Case Study of Paper Waste Recycling 42
3.4.2 Deinking Process 42
3.4.3 Paper Deinking Residue 43
3.5 Conventional and Novel Techniques: Overall Comparison in Terms of
Energy Consumption, Waste Stream Generation and Cost 44
3.5.1 Pyrolysis 44
3.5.2 Gasification 44
3.5.3 Incineration 44
3.6 Energy Consumption, Waste Stream Generation, and Costs of
Conventional and Novel Waste Treatment Technologies 45
3.7 Conclusions and Future Trends 45
Acknowledgement 46
References 46
Contents ix
Index 253
List of Contributors
Yunchao Feng College of Energy; Fujian Engineering and Research Center of Clean
and High-valued Technologies for Biomass; and Xiamen Key Laboratory of Clean and
High-valued Applications of Biomass, Xiamen University, PR China
Pobitra Halder Chemical and Environmental Engineering, RMIT University, Australia
Zubeen Hathi School of Energy and Environment (SEE), City University of Hong Kong,
Hong Kong
Hsien-Yi Hsu School of Energy and Environment, City University of Hong Kong,
Hong Kong
Md Khairul Islam Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Hong Kong
Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Guneet Kaur Department of Biology, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong,
Hong Kong and Department of Civil Engineering, York University, Canada
Meena Krishania Center of Innovative and Applied Bioprocessing, India
Deepak Kumar Department of Chemical Engineering, State University of New York
College of Environmental Science and Forestry, USA
Sazal Kundu Chemical and Environmental Engineering, RMIT University, Australia
Shao-Yuan Leu Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Hong Kong Poly-
technic University, Hong Kong
Chong Li Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China
Xiaotong Li School of Energy and Environment, City University of Hong Kong,
Hong Kong
Carol Sze Ki Lin School of Energy and Environment, City University of Hong Kong,
Hong Kong
Lu Lin College of Energy; Fujian Engineering and Research Center of Clean and
High-valued Technologies for Biomass; and Xiamen Key Laboratory of Clean and
High-valued Applications of Biomass, Xiamen University, PR China
Sishi Long College of Energy; Fujian Engineering and Research Center of Clean
and High-valued Technologies for Biomass; and Xiamen Key Laboratory of Clean and
High-valued Applications of Biomass, Xiamen University, PR China
Srinivas Mettu Sonochemistry Group, School of Chemistry, University of Melbourne,
Parkville, Australia
Chemical and Environmental Engineering, RMIT University, Australia
School of Energy and Environment (SEE), City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Jinhua Mou School of Energy and Environment (SEE), City University of Hong Kong,
Hong Kong
Selvakumar Muniraj Water and Solid Waste Processing Lab, Department of Environ-
mental Biotechnology, Bharathidasan University, India
List of Contributors xv
Renewable resources, their use and modification are involved in a multitude of important
processes with a major influence on our everyday lives. Applications can be found in the
energy sector; paints and coatings; and the chemical, pharmaceutical, and textile industries,
to name but a few.
The area interconnects several scientific disciplines (agriculture, biochemistry, chem-
istry, technology, environmental sciences, forestry), which makes it very difficult to have
an expert view on the complicated interaction. Therefore, the idea to create a series of sci-
entific books, focusing on specific topics concerning renewable resources, has been very
opportune and can help to clarify some of the underlying connections in this area.
In a very fast-changing world, trends are not only characteristic of fashion and politi-
cal standpoints; science too is not free from hypes and buzzwords. The use of renewable
resources is again more important nowadays; however, it is not part of a hype or a fashion.
As the lively discussions among scientists continue about how many years we will still be
able to use fossil fuels – opinions ranging from 50 to 500 years – they do agree that the
reserve is limited, and that it is essential not only to search for new energy carriers but also
for new material sources.
In this respect, the field of renewable resources is a crucial area in the search for alterna-
tives for fossil-based raw materials and energy. In the field of energy supply, biomass- and
renewables-based resources will be part of the solution alongside other alternatives such
as solar energy, wind energy, hydraulic power, hydrogen technology, and nuclear energy.
In the field of material sciences, the impact of renewable resources will probably be even
bigger. Integral utilization of crops and the use of waste streams in certain industries will
grow in importance, leading to a more sustainable way of producing materials. Although
our society was much more (almost exclusively) based on renewable resources centuries
ago, this disappeared in the Western world in the nineteenth century. Now it is time to
focus again on this field of research. However, it should not mean a “retour à la nature,”
but should be a multidisciplinary effort on a highly technological level to perform research
toward new opportunities, to develop new crops and products from renewable resources.
This will be essential to guarantee an acceptable level of comfort for the growing number
of people living on our planet. It is “the” challenge for the coming generations of scientists
xviii Series Preface
to develop more sustainable ways to create prosperity and to fight poverty and hunger in
the world. A global approach is certainly favored.
This challenge can only be dealt with if scientists are attracted to this area and are rec-
ognized for their efforts in this interdisciplinary field. It is, therefore, also essential that
consumers recognize the fate of renewable resources in a number of products. Further-
more, scientists do need to communicate and discuss the relevance of their work. The use
and modification of renewable resources may not follow the path of the genetic engineering
concept in view of consumer acceptance in Europe. Related to this aspect, the series will
certainly help to increase the visibility of the importance of renewable resources. Being
convinced of the value of the renewables approach for the industrial world, as well as for
developing countries, I was myself delighted to collaborate on this series of books focusing
on the different aspects of renewable resources. I hope that readers become aware of the
complexity, the interaction and interconnections, and the challenges of this field, and that
they will help to communicate on the importance of renewable resources.
I certainly want to thank the people of Wiley’s Chichester office, especially David
Hughes, Jenny Cossham, and Lyn Roberts, in seeing the need for such a series of books on
renewable resources, for initiating and supporting it, and for helping to carry the project to
the end.
Last, but not least, I want to thank my family, especially my wife Hilde and children
Paulien and Pieter-Jan, for their patience, and for giving me the time to work on the series
when other activities seemed to be more inviting.
Christian V. Stevens
Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Belgium
Series Editor, “Renewable Resources”
June 2005
Preface
Global economic development is being confronted with the issues of limitation of natu-
ral resources, endless demands from the environment, and increased generation of waste
streams. The exploration of circular economy principles to capture value, in the form of the
energy, nutrients and materials embodied in these streams, would contribute to restoring
the natural capital.
This book aims to give an overview of waste valorisation strategies under the concept of
circular economy. The increasing amount of waste generated from human activities attracts
global attention, and innovative biotechnologies for green and sustainable resource man-
agement are being closely and extensively studied in both academic and industrial-scale
research. Technology-integrated biorefineries focus on the material recovery approach to
resolve the twin problems of the global waste burden and resource/energy concerns in
order to transform renewable resources from waste streams into value-added products. New
research and explorations are rapidly emerging to lead the way toward a bio-based econ-
omy. Both theory and practice of waste valorisation is a topic of increasing importance in
the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda.
This book gives a detailed presentation of valorisation schemes for various types of waste
streams. Sustainability analysis, circular economy development and future trends are also
included. In this book, we will review the development of biochemical processes for utili-
sation of wastes as bioresources (Chapters 2 and 3), process integration for a waste-based
biorefinery (Chapters 4–7), and closed loop recirculation of a waste-based biorefinery in a
bio-based economy (Chapters 8–10).
As editors of this book, we sincerely hope it can successfully demonstrate the appli-
cation of the integrated waste-based biorefinery, which has a strong potential to provide
solutions to combat climate change. Based on these solutions on circular economy princi-
ples, cascaded benefits for food security, human health, and environmental protection are
anticipated. We hope this book can promote and accelerate an innovative waste-based bioe-
conomy, and inspire more research and practice on waste management strategies in order
to make a significant contribution to the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
We would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge all contributors for their great
efforts in excellent and timely contributions and efficient collaboration. The co-editors
would like to express their sincere appreciation and gratitude to the Series Editor Prof.
xx Preface
Christian Stevens from Ghent University, Belgium, for his kind recommendation for sub-
mission of a book proposal to the Wiley Series in Renewable Resources. Also, we would like
to extend our gratitude to the Wiley Cover Team for their great effort in preparation of the
book cover. Last but not least, we sincerely thank the publishing editor Sarah Higginbotham,
project editor Aruna Pragasam, and assistant editor Emma Strickland, who patiently and
kindly took us through the development of this book over the past three years to achieve
this impressive final result, which would not have been possible without their support.
Sincere wishes for an enjoyable read!
1.1 Introduction
Petroleum is one of the most important reserves used as a fundamental raw material for
various industries. It has been in a predominant position in the world energy consump-
tion structure since the 1970s. Petroleum-derived products, such as plastics, synthetic fiber,
and synthetic rubber, are widely utilized in the agricultural, chemical, and pharmaceuti-
cal sectors, and have already become necessities in our daily life. Most industries, like the
chemical industries and transportation, are heavily dependent upon petroleum and other
fossil resources.
However, this fossil-based economy is facing two serious problems. On one hand,
fossil resources are not renewable – they have limited availability on our planet and are