Food waste anaerobic digestion plants: Underestimated air pollutants and control strategy

Y Wang, J Fang, F Lü, H Zhang, P He - Science of The Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Food waste management is an important global issue, and anaerobic digestion (AD) is a
sustainable technology for treating food waste and developing a circular economy. Odor and …

A bacterial outlook on the caproate production from food waste

A Massimi, CM Braguglia, A Gallipoli, A Gianico… - … Science and Bio …, 2024 - Springer
As an essential strategy for transitioning towards a circular economy for a sustainable
society, food waste (FW) can be efficiently used for the biological production of added-value …

Acclimation of anaerobic fermentation microbiome with acetate and ethanol for chain elongation and the biochemical response

L Li, C Liu, L Xu, H Zhuang, J He, Q He, J Zhang - Chemosphere, 2023 - Elsevier
Medium chain fatty acids (MCFAs) production is a promising method for resource recovery
from organic wastes. In this study, the microbial community structure shift along the long …

Ecology of food waste chain-elongating microbiome

S Crognale, A Massimi, M Sbicego… - … in Bioengineering and …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Microbial chain elongation has emerged as a valuable bioprocess for obtaining marketable
products, such as medium chain fatty acids usable in several industrial applications, from …

Product spectrum analysis and microbial insights of medium-chain fatty acids production from waste biomass during liquor fermentation process: Effects of substrate …

J Zhao, H Ma, W Wu, MA Bacar, Q Wang, M Gao… - Bioresource …, 2023 - Elsevier
Substrate toxicity would limit the upgrading of waste biomass to medium-chain fatty acids
(MCFAs). In this work, two fermentation modes of electro-fermentation (EF) and traditional …

Medium chain Fatty acids production from Food Waste via homolactic fermentation and lactate/ethanol elongation: Electron balance and thermodynamic assessment

D Montecchio, G Gazzola, A Gallipoli, A Gianico… - Waste Management, 2024 - Elsevier
This study explored the potential of Food Waste (FW) extract as a suitable substrate for
Medium Chain Fatty Acids (MCFAs) production, in a single-phase reactor, where both …

[HTML][HTML] Development of data-intensive techno-economic models for the assessment of a biomass, waste heat, and MSW integrated waste-to-electricity facility

P Patel, M Vaezi, MM Billal, A Kumar - Resources, Conservation & …, 2023 - Elsevier
This study develops a framework for an assessment of the integrated processing of various
types of waste in a single waste-to-energy (W2E) facility. The FUNdamental ENgineering …

Bio-based production of medium-chain carboxylic acids from food waste and sludge without chemical addition: The pivotal role of mix ratio and pretreatment

B Tonanzi, A Gallipoli, A Frugis, A Gianico… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2024 - Elsevier
Medium-chain carboxylates such as caproic acid, have a plethora of applications, ranging
from food additives to bioplastics, and can be produced via microbial chain elongation (CE) …

Enhanced anaerobic fermentation of potato waste for volatile fatty acid production by dilute sulfuric acid pretreatment: Performance, microbial community, and gene …

J Liang, C Liu, H Lu, G Yang, G Zhang… - Journal of Water Process …, 2024 - Elsevier
Anaerobic fermentation of potato waste for volatile fatty acid (VFA) production is a promising
pathway for resource utilization. Hydrolysis of potato waste is the bottleneck for efficient VFA …

[HTML][HTML] Novel anaerobic fermentation paradigm of producing medium-chain fatty acids from food wastes with self-produced ethanol as electron donor

L Wu, W Wei, Z Chen, X Shi, J Qian, BJ Ni - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2024 - Elsevier
As food waste (FW) is a largely available and carbon-rich feedstock, bulk production of
medium-chain fatty acids (MCFAs) via chain elongation (CE) from FW is of great interest to …