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Biocomposites and Nanomaterials: A Circular Economy Approach explores the transformative shift from traditional linear economic models to the innovative concept of the Circular Economy. The book delves into sustainable materials synthesis and advanced technologies that cater to eco-friendly production in industries like manufacturing and process engineering. With a focus on precision tailoring of material structures, it highlights how systematic synthesis is revolutionizing material properties to meet the growing demands of diverse applications. The book is designed to inspire sustainable innovations that align seamlessly with the principles of a circular economy.Beyond its primary focus, the book extensively discusses biocomposites, bio-adhesives, bioplastics, keratin-based products, and pharmaceutical developments. Key topics include sustainable production techniques, heterogeneous catalysis, carbon sequestration, and waste management strategies. Real-world industrial case studies provide practical insights into transitioning to eco-friendly practices. By showcasing cutting-edge research and applications, this book serves as a comprehensive guide for integrating circular economy frameworks into material development and industrial processes.

Plate Heat Exchanger Enhancement Techniques: in Support of the Energy Transition and a Circular Economy provides fundamental knowledge on the applications of the plate heat exchanger (PHE) and how it can be optimized to make energy conversion more efficient. In addition, it introduces relevant studies that explain the heat transfer mechanism of the PHE, its design, and how developing more compact and evolved heat exchangers contributes to a sustainable, cleaner, and more energy-efficient future. Researchers, scientists, engineers, professionals, and students working in nanotechnology, materials science, and sustainability will find this volume valuable to their work.

Energy Materials: A Circular Economy Approach emphasizes the engineering scalability of a circular economy approach to development and use of energy materials. It focuses on waste minimization and its valorization, recycling and reuse, and emerging sustainable materials and technologies. It offers a view of the eco-friendly energy materials and state-of-the-art technologies required for production of these materials in the process industry and manufacturing sectors.

• Covers fundamentals, concepts, and current initiatives within the circular economy

• Outlines technologies and materials with specific applications for energy systems, sustainability aspects and societal benefits

• Focuses on detailed aspects of processing of energy materials, kinetics, their utilization, and end-of-life management and application of circular economy in waste utilization and valorization

• Discusses technologies, processing methods, and production of materials related to fuel cells, super capacitors and battery materials, carbon based hetrostructures, catalysis, functional materials, nanotechnology, biofuels, solar and wind energy, and valuable chemicals

• Details topics related to synthesis and application of energy materials, their recycle, reuse, and life cycle

This book is aimed at students, researchers and professional engineers and scientists working in chemical, materials, energy, and environmental engineering, as well as materials chemistry.

Energy Materials: A Circular Economy Approach emphasizes the engineering scalability of a circular economy approach to development and use of energy materials. It focuses on waste minimization and its valorization, recycling and reuse, and emerging sustainable materials and technologies. It offers a view of the eco-friendly energy materials and state-of-the-art technologies required for production of these materials in the process industry and manufacturing sectors.

• Covers fundamentals, concepts, and current initiatives within the circular economy

• Outlines technologies and materials with specific applications for energy systems, sustainability aspects and societal benefits

• Focuses on detailed aspects of processing of energy materials, kinetics, their utilization, and end-of-life management and application of circular economy in waste utilization and valorization

• Discusses technologies, processing methods, and production of materials related to fuel cells, super capacitors and battery materials, carbon based hetrostructures, catalysis, functional materials, nanotechnology, biofuels, solar and wind energy, and valuable chemicals

• Details topics related to synthesis and application of energy materials, their recycle, reuse, and life cycle

This book is aimed at students, researchers and professional engineers and scientists working in chemical, materials, energy, and environmental engineering, as well as materials chemistry.

This technical resource delves into the management and valorization of paper industry waste, exploring innovative approaches to transform waste into sustainable construction materials, low-grade paperboard, biogas, and bioCNG. It provides a comprehensive overview of cutting-edge advancements in recycling processes, recovery technologies, and the production of clean hydrogen from paper mill waste. By bridging theoretical research with practical industrial applications, the book systematically presents core principles of recovery technologies alongside real-world case studies. Additionally, it emphasizes the role of waste management in fostering a circular economy within the pulping sector, promoting environmental sustainability and resource efficiency.

This book is aimed at graduate students and researchers in pulp and paper technology, waste management, and chemical process engineering.

This technical resource delves into the management and valorization of paper industry waste, exploring innovative approaches to transform waste into sustainable construction materials, low-grade paperboard, biogas, and bioCNG. It provides a comprehensive overview of cutting-edge advancements in recycling processes, recovery technologies, and the production of clean hydrogen from paper mill waste. By bridging theoretical research with practical industrial applications, the book systematically presents core principles of recovery technologies alongside real-world case studies. Additionally, it emphasizes the role of waste management in fostering a circular economy within the pulping sector, promoting environmental sustainability and resource efficiency.

This book is aimed at graduate students and researchers in pulp and paper technology, waste management, and chemical process engineering.

This book highlights clean energy transition via sustainable utilization of biomass resources, viz. forestry, agriculture, agroforestry, grassland, and seaweeds to climate change mitigation.

Bioresources have tremendous potential to mitigate global warming. Also, biomass is expected to play a multifunctional role including food production, source of energy and fodder, biodiversity conservation, and yield of goods and services to the society. It brings together perspectives of various communities involved in the research and regulation of bioenergy deployment in the context of climate change mitigation. The book presents the way forward to policy makers and stakeholders involved with bioenergy development. This development may be directive challenges in the transport sector where options such as hydrogen and electric vehicles relying on hydro, wind, and solar PV will require decades to become established on a substantial scale. Furthermore, meeting ambitious climate change targets will also require environment-friendly fuels in air and marine transport where no alternative to biofuels is currently available.

The process design-via-onion model for sustainable utilization of biomass resources is also one of the most important subjects of the book. This book includes state-of-the-art approaches on bottlenecks and circular economy analysis for biomass energy use to reduce climate change and sustainability frameworks to guide bioenergy development.