Advanced and Emerging Technologies for Resource Recovery from Wastes, 1st ed. 2021 Green Chemistry and Sustainable Technology Series

This book introduces advanced or emerging technologies for conversion of wastes into a variety of high-value chemicals and materials. Energy and resources can be recovered from various residential, industrial and commercial wastes, such as municipal wastewater and sludge, e-waste, waste plastics and resins, crop residues, forestry residues and lignin. Advanced waste-to-resource and energy technologies like pyrolysis, hydrothermal liquefaction, fractionation, de-polymerization, gasification and carbonization are also introduced. The book serves as an essential guide to dealing with various types of wastes and the methods of disposal, recovery, recycling and re-use.  As such it is a valuable resource for a wide readership, including graduate students, academic researchers, industrial researchers and practitioners in chemical engineering, waste management, waste to energy and resources conversion and biorefinery.

Wastes Generation, Characterization and Health and Environmental Impacts.- Conventional Technologies for Waste Management.- Advanced Technologies (Biological and Thermo-chemical) for Waste to Energy Conversion.- Nitrogen and Phosphorus Recovery from Municipal Wastewater and Sludge .- Recovery of Metals from Electronic Waste.- Conversion of Waste Plastics and Resins into Oils and Activated Carbon.- Fractionation of Crop Residues into Cellulose, Hemicellulose and Lignin.- Production of Phenolics for Fuels and Chemicals from Forestry Residues and Lignin by Pyrolysis, Liquefaction and De-polymerization.- Summary and Outlook. 

Dr. Charles Xu is full Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering at Western University, Fellow of Chemical Institute of Canada (FCIC) and Fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering (FCAE). He was the NSERC/FPInnovations Industrial Research Chair in Forest Biorefinery (2011-2016), acquiring an international reputation in the field of biorefinery, particularly on bio-based chemicals and materials from forestry/ agricultural residues, catalytic conversion of glycerol and sugars into green chemicals, resources recovery from wastewater sludges and microalgae, as well as utilizations of biomass and bioenergy in iron and steel manufacturing processes.He has authored/edited3books on biorefinery, and published 20+book chapters and 230+ papers in peer-reviewed journals and 150+ conference papers/abstracts. In accordance to Google Scholar, his work has received total citationsof over 10,000 with an H-index of 53 to date. He wasthe recipient ofthe 2011 Syncrude Canada Innovation Award and the 2019 Award in Design and Industrial Practice from Canadian Society of Chemical Engineering.