With the rising population and affluence, the management of significantly increased quantity
of municipal solid waste is reaching a critical level in almost all regions of the world. The …

Food waste represents a significantly fraction of municipal solid waste. Proper management
and recycling of huge volumes of food waste are required to reduce its environmental …

Municipal solid waste (MSW) management is becoming a serious issue in all over the world.
Anaerobic digestion (AD) is one of the technologies to convert that waste into useful form of …

This paper reviews pretreatment techniques to enhance the anaerobic digestion of organic
solid waste, including mechanical, thermal, chemical and biological methods. The effects of …

Coffee is one of the popular beverages of the world and second largest traded commodity
after petroleum. Coffee is cultivated in about 80 countries across the globe and entangles …

The search for alternative energy and fuels has motivated researchers to focus on
renewable and sustainable means of getting them instead of relying on the conventional …

Lignocellulosic biomass is the most abundant renewable bioresource on earth. In
lignocellulosic biomass, the cellulose and hemicellulose are bound with lignin and other …

Food waste with high decomposition potential can be successfully digested anaerobically
for the production of biogas. As the fossil-fuel reserves decline anaerobic digestion can be a …

Anaerobic digestion is an effective waste treatment method both for the pollution control and
energy recovery, such as treating many agricultural and industrial wastes which contain high …

Focus is placed on substrate pre-treatment in anaerobic digestion (AD) as a means of
increasing biogas yields using today's diversified substrate sources. Current pre-treatment …