Recovery of value-added products from biowaste: A review

Yuwen Zhou; Vinay Kumar; Sharareh Harirchi; V S Vigneswaran; Karthik Rajendran; Pooja Sharma; Yen Wah Tong; Parameswaran Binod; Raveendran Sindhu; Surendra Sarsaiya; Deepanraj Balakrishnan; M Mofijur; Zengqiang Zhang; Mohammad J Taherzadeh; Mukesh Kumar Awasthi

doi:10.1016/j.biortech.2022.127565

Recovery of value-added products from biowaste: A review

Bioresour Technol. 2022 Sep:360:127565. doi: 10.1016/j.biortech.2022.127565. Epub 2022 Jul 3.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ College of Natural Resources and Environment, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi Province 712100, China.
² Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee, Roorkee 247667, Uttarakhand, India.
³ Swedish Centre for Resource Recovery, University of Borås, Borås 50190, Sweden.
⁴ Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, School of Engineering and Sciences, SRM University-AP, Amaravati, Andhra Pradesh 522240, India.
⁵ Environmental Research Institute, National University of Singapore, 1 Create Way, 138602, Singapore; Energy and Environmental Sustainability for Megacities (E2S2) Phase II, Campus for Research Excellence and Technology Enterprise (CREATE), 1 CREATE Way, Singapore 138602, Singapore.
⁶ Environmental Research Institute, National University of Singapore, 1 Create Way, 138602, Singapore; Energy and Environmental Sustainability for Megacities (E2S2) Phase II, Campus for Research Excellence and Technology Enterprise (CREATE), 1 CREATE Way, Singapore 138602, Singapore; Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, National University of Singapore, 4 Engineering Drive, 117585, Singapore.
⁷ Microbial Processes and Technology Division, CSIR-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (CSIR-NIIST), Trivandrum 695 019, Kerala, India.
⁸ Department of Food Technology, TKM Institute of Technology, Kollam 691505, Kerala, India.
⁹ Key Laboratory of Basic Pharmacology and Joint International Research Laboratory of Ethnomedicine of Ministry of Education, Zunyi Medical University, Zunyi, Guizhou, China.
¹⁰ Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University, Al Khobar, 31952, Saudi Arabia.
¹¹ Faculty of Engineering and IT, University of Technology Sydney, NSW 2007, Australia; Mechanical Engineering Department, Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University, Al Khobar 31952, Saudi Arabia.
¹² College of Natural Resources and Environment, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi Province 712100, China. Electronic address: mukeshawasthi85@nwafu.edu.cn.

PMID: 35788392
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2022.127565

Abstract

This review provides an update on the state-of-the art technologies for the valorization of solid waste and its mechanism to generate various bio-products. The organic content of these wastes can be easily utilized by the microbes and produce value-added compounds. Microbial fermentation techniques can be utilized for developing waste biorefinery processes. The utilization of lignocellulosic and plastics wastes for the generation of carbon sources for microbial utilization after pre-processing steps will make the process a multi-product biorefinery. The C1 and C2 gases generated from different industries could also be utilized by various microbes, and this will help to control global warming. The review seeks to expand expertise about the potential application through several perspectives, factors influencing remediation, issues, and prospects.

Keywords: Biofuels; Biopolymer; Organic acids; Valorization; Waste biorefinery.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Biofuels* / analysis
Fermentation
Solid Waste*

Substances

Biofuels
Solid Waste