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AAP Series on Waste Biomass Valorization
This important book, Advances in Waste Valorization: Technologies for Sustainable Resource Recovery, explores how innovative technologies are transforming waste from an environmental challenge into a valuable resource for sustainable development. As global concerns over climate change, resource depletion, and escalating waste generation intensify, the book presents waste valorization as a practical pathway toward a circular economy in which biomass, agricultural residues, food waste, industrial byproducts, and municipal waste become feedstocks for renewable fuels, chemicals, materials, and energy. CONTENTS: About the Authors / Editors: Gollakota Anjani Ravi Kiran, PhD Research Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Yunlin, Taiwan Gollakota Anjani Ravi Kiran, PhD, is a chemical engineer with over nine years of experience in academia, research, and higher education. He is currently serving as a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering at the National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Taiwan, where he has been a faculty member since 2018. His research interest span synthesis of advanced materials, including zeolites, heterogeneous catalysts, and metal organic frameworks, carbon capture, and hydrogen-lean upgrading of biofuels. Dr. Gollakota received his PhD in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati in 2015. He has authored more than 70 peer-reviewed international publications, with research published in leading journals in chemical engineering, energy, and environmental sciences. His scientific contributions have earned him recognition among the World’s Top 2% Scientists (Stanford University–Elsevier) for the year 2024. He is also a recipient of Taiwan’s prestigious Plum Blossom Permanent Resident Card, awarded in recognition of his outstanding academic and research contributions. Dr. Gollakota actively serves as a reviewer, guest editor, and editorial board member for several international journals and is committed to advancing sustainable technologies while mentoring the next generation of researchers and engineers. Prakash Kumar Sarangi, PhD Scientist, Central Agricultural University, Imphal, India Prakash Kumar Sarangi, PhD, is the Scientist at the Central Agricultural University in Imphal, India. He has a PhD degree in Microbial Biotechnology from the Ravenshaw University, India, and MTech degree from Department of Agriculture and Food Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India. Dr. Sarangi’s research is focused on bioprocess engineering, biochemicals and sustainable development. His expertise is in bioconversion of biomass into biochemicals and nutraceuticals, as well as environmental waste remediation. He has taken leading roles as the principal investigator in different R&D projects on biomass conversion and biodegradation into value-added products. He has more than 14 years of teaching and research experience in biochemical engineering, microbial biotechnology, downstream processing, and environmental sustainability. He is serving as an editorial board member for many international journals, including Critical Review in Biotechnology, PLOS One, 3 Biotech, Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining. He is serving as guest editor in science for Science of the Total Environment, International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery, Chemical Engineering & Technology, and Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining. He has published more than 130 research articles in peer-reviewed journals and authored in more than 75 book chapters. His research publications have good ratings with a cumulative impact factor more than 700. He has presented at many national and international conferences. He is associated with many scientific societies and has published 25 books on the field of biomass conversion and value addition by Elsevier, Springer, and Taylor and Francis. He is the World’s Top 2% Scientists, Stanford University, USA. |
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