Advances in Resource Recovery from Organic Wastes (ARROW)

Dear Colleagues,

Organic wastes like food waste and waste-activated sludge generated from municipal sources pose a serious threat to human and environmental health. Their safe and sustainable disposal has been a major challenge for countries across the globe. Both food waste and waste-activated sludge have high energy content, which can be biologically treated to capture carbon and create a net negative emission. Recovery of energy and resources (e.g., nutrients, value-added commercial chemicals) from these organic wastes is attractive from both environmental and economic viewpoints.

This Special Issue aims to collect the latest research innovations on organic waste treatment for resource recovery. It will cover thematic areas like dark fermentation, photo-fermentation, co-digestion, pre-treatment of organic waste, metabolic pathways of fermentative bacteria, microbial population dynamics, anaerobic digestion, biofuel production, biochemical production and purification, volatile fatty acid utilization for nutrient removal, and kinetic modeling for bioprocess optimization.

This Special Issue seeks contributions from researchers, scientists, and industry experts on “Advances in Resource Recovery from Organic Wastes (ARROW)”. Therefore, we invite original research papers and systematic reviews for this Special Issue.

Dr. Nirakar Pradhan
Dr. Joyabrata Mal
Guest Editors

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