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Smart Food Industry: The Blockchain for Sustainable Engineering,
Volume I - Fundamentals, Technologies, and Management is a
comprehensive overview of the current state of knowledge about food
engineering and processing, under sustainable engineering
perspective. This book includes disruptive approaches that will
potentially enable the food industry for the transition to
sustainable production. Divided into four parts, the book explores
(i) fundamentals of sustainable food, (ii) conventional
technologies in the food industry, (iii) sustainabile emerging
technologies in food industries, and (iv) sustainable management in
food industries. The book is an invaluable reference resource for
students, researchers, graduates, and professionals, in general,
who wish to gain knowledge in the engineering and food processing
area as well as about sustainable food industry practices.
This handbook discusses the latest developments in biorefinery
technologies for waste-to-energy conversion. The growing global
population and the accompanying increase in consumption and waste
production make it urgent to find the best possible use of our
resources. A sustainable waste management under the biorefinery
concept has great potential to support a sustainable circular
economy and green energy production. This handbook is divided into
four parts. First, the reader is introduced to the fundamentals and
recent trends of waste-to-energy technologies. The second part
describes in detail the current status, challenges, and potential
of the different feedstocks used for waste-to-energy conversion.
Here, municipal solid waste, sewage sludge, oils and greases
generated during food preparation, industrial wastewaters, and
agricultural wastes, to name a few, are introduced. In the third
part, numerous waste-to-energy technologies are discussed in
detail, including anaerobic digestion, composting, gasification,
plasma technology, thermal cracking, and others. Advantages and
optimization potentials of these technologies for efficient residue
management, quality and yield are highlighted. Finally, the
handbook discusses social, environmental and economic aspects of
waste-to-energy biorefinery technologies. Readers will learn more
about the major bottlenecks and solutions in bioenergy
commercialization, the logistics of biomass supply and the carbon
footprint of waste biorefineries. The ideas and technologies
presented in this book contribute to the UN Sustainable Development
Goal (SDG) of "Affordable and Clean Energy". This book is a useful
reference for postgraduate students and researchers interested in
biorefinery and biofuel technologies, both in academia- and
commercial laboratories. Early career scientists can use it to fast
track into the field. Advanced scientists will find it helpful in
gaining a broader overview of the field beyond their area of
specialization.
Sustainability Metrics and Indicators of Environmental Impact:
Industrial and Agricultural Life Cycle Assessment covers trending
topics on the environmental impact of systems of production,
putting emphasis on lifecycle assessment (LCA). This methodology is
one of the most important tools of analysis, as mathematical models
are applied that will quantify the systematic inputs and outputs of
the processes in order to evaluate the sustainability of industrial
processes and products. In this sense, LCA is mainly a tool to
support environmental decision-making that analyzes the
environmental impacts of products and technologies from a lifecycle
perspective. The emergence of ever-larger global issues, such as
the energy dilemma, the changing climate and the scarcity of
natural resources, such as water, has boosted the search for tools
capable of ensuring the reliability of the results published by the
industries, and has become an important tool in order to achieve
sustainability and environmental preservation. Thus, lifecycle
assessment (LCA), including carbon footprint valuation is necessary
to ensure better internal management.
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