Advances in Potential Transformation of Waste Residue into Value-Added Products

Dear Colleagues,

Rapid growing of human population, agricultural and industrial sectors has increased the demand for feed, energy, and chemicals, leading to a high consumption of fossil-based resources and huge generation of wastes by-products of organic and inorganic nature. Most of these wastes are commonly dumped in the environment, causing the everlasting accumulation of toxic and non-toxic pollutants, whereby resulted in the environmental pollutions and health problems for human beings. To minimize hazardous effect of these waste pollutants, research have been globally accelerated. However, considering the rate of production of wastes and complexity of wastes, the contribution of research innovations and developments is insufficient yet. For dismissing the negative impacts of these pollutants, special attention on waste residues transformation must be given to assure pollution free environment. Hence, there is great opportunity in the transformation of waste residues into value-added products that might contribute to solve the issues. Such wastes including organic and inorganic wastes can be further processed to produce fuels, valuables chemicals, and materials or their combination. However, the transformation processes still remain a challenges and difficulties from the point of view of technologies, environmental concerns, and economic feasibility.

This Special Issue entitled “Advances in Potential Transformation of Waste Residue into Value-Added Products” will collect and cover the current issues, results of research works, and implementation experiences in the transformations of waste residue, including (1) Basic Scientific Research, (2) Applied Research, (3) Case Studies, and (4) Industrial and Government Efforts. This Special Issue aims to give an overview and development of proper management and disposal technologies to produce energy (biofuels), value-added chemicals for various purposes from waste residues and improve its sustainability.

In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but not limited to) the following:

• Cleaner and novel technologies for the management and disposal of solid waste, effluents and waste gases with minimization of the environmental impact and towards sustainable zero-waste environment
• Biological (composting and anaerobic digestion) and thermochemical treatment (pyrolysis, gasification, hydrothermal, liquefaction, and combustion) of wastes including biomass and municipal solid waste
• Biorefinery approaches towards conversion of organic wastes into useful products e.g., fuel, catalysts, or adsorbents
• Leachate management and disposal technologies
• Status and current development in synthesis gas fermentation process for production of biofuels and chemicals
• All aspects of bioremediation of environmental pollutants (heavy metals, macro/micro plastics) and associated mechanisms.
• Extraction and purification of biochemicals based wastes
• Economic and environmental impacts (LCA and LCC) for thermochemical and biochemical technologies for energy recovery from waste
• Prospective policies and strategies for solid waste management and prevention

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Dwi Hantoko
Dr. Ekkachai Kanchanatip
Dr. Kitirote Wantala
Guest Editors

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• waste management and disposal technologies
• thermochemical processes
• biological treatment
• pollutants treatment
• biofuels
• biochemicals