Bio-refining of food waste for fuel and value products

Obulisamy Parthiba Karthikeyan; Sanjeet Mehariya; Jonathan W C Wong

doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2017.10.253

Bio-refining of food waste for fuel and value products

Obulisamy Parthiba Karthikeyan^*, Sanjeet Mehariya, Jonathan W C Wong

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Abstract

One third of food produced for human consumption is disposed as food waste that pose a threat for the global economy and environment. Considering the physiochemical and biological nature, the food waste could be used as a raw material for fuel and energy productions will facilitate the bio-circular economy and reduce the environmental impacts. The combined fuel and value products from food waste is highly feasible under integrated bio-refinery concepts. However, the traditional technologies (i.e., composting and anaerobic digestion) are irreplaceable to maximize the benefits of food waste recycling and required detailed techno-economic analysis for commercialization.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	14-21
Number of pages	8
Journal	Energy Procedia
Volume	136
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2017.10.253
Publication status	Published - Oct 2017
Event	4th International Conference on Energy and Environment Research, ICEER 2017 - Porto, Portugal Duration: 17 Jul 2017 → 20 Jul 2017

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Anaerobic digestion
biofuel
food waste
methane
oleaginous yeast

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Bio-refining of food waste for fuel and value products

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