Conversion of food waste to energy: A focus on sustainability and life cycle assessment

Valorization of agro-industrial wastes for biorefinery process and circular bioeconomy: A critical review

“…The generation of this fruit and vegetable waste from various units such as processing, packing, distributing, and consuming is high in most countries. The annual generation of these wastes is more and disposal is by dumping which is not proper and cause pollution (Sridhar et al, 2021). Agro-industries like the food sector generate vast quantities of multicomponent waste in the form of solid, liquid, or gaseous state from processing, treatment, and disposal methods.…”

Evaluation of the Circular Economy in a Pitahaya Agri-Food Chain

“…Even food waste has been treated in anaerobic digestion with a high rate of organic loading [87]. Furthermore, the review of [88] analyzed the current status of available technologies used in the disposal of food waste in order to identify process intensification variables for converting it into fuel, taking into account environmental concerns and logistics of utilization. The main technologies include incineration, landfilling, composting, anaerobic digestion, pyrolysis, and biochemical methods, along with recent developing technologies such as hydrothermal carbonization and supercritical water gasification [88].…”

“…Furthermore, the review of [88] analyzed the current status of available technologies used in the disposal of food waste in order to identify process intensification variables for converting it into fuel, taking into account environmental concerns and logistics of utilization. The main technologies include incineration, landfilling, composting, anaerobic digestion, pyrolysis, and biochemical methods, along with recent developing technologies such as hydrothermal carbonization and supercritical water gasification [88]. Another application in energy is the use of food waste for green energy vehicles in the form of fuels to be used in internal combustion engine vehicles (running on biomethane or bioethanol), fuel cell vehicles (biohydrogen), and plug-in electric vehicles using bioelectricity [89].…”

Lab-on-a-chip technologies for food safety, processing, and packaging applications: a review

“…The food production industry is vital for human health. The global food production industry revolves around the following few major factors like economic growth, technological advancements, integration with electrical and communication technology as well as transportation (Sridhar et al 2021a , b , c ). Microfluidics and LOC devices represent a reliable technological system integrating multiple technologies like sensing and nanotechnology.…”