Sustainable food waste management towards circular bioeconomy: Policy review, limitations and opportunities

TMW Mak, X Xiong, DCW Tsang, KM Iris… - Bioresource technology, 2020 - Elsevier
Research attention is increasingly drawn on constructing a circular bioeconomy and
enhancing the value of material flows. Circular bioeconomy aims to achieve sustainable …

Value-added chemicals from food supply chain wastes: State-of-the-art review and future prospects

X Xiong, KM Iris, DCW Tsang, NS Bolan, YS Ok… - Chemical Engineering …, 2019 - Elsevier
Food wastes are generated massively across global food supply chains. Conventional
treatments of food waste (eg, landfilling and incineration) cause environmental, economic …

5-Hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) production from real biomasses

F Menegazzo, E Ghedini, M Signoretto - Molecules, 2018 - mdpi.com
The present paper reviews recent advances on the direct synthesis of 5-
hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) from different kinds of raw biomasses. In particular, in the paper …

Effective one-pot chemoenzymatic cascade catalysis of biobased feedstock for synthesizing 2, 5-diformylfuran in a sustainable reaction system

Q Li, CL Ma, YC He - Bioresource Technology, 2023 - Elsevier
Diformylfuran, which can be prepared via the oxidation of biobased HMF, has received
considerable attention because of its potential applications in producing furan-based …

Larvae mediated valorization of industrial, agriculture and food wastes: Biorefinery concept through bioconversion, processes, procedures, and products

HK Ravi, A Degrou, J Costil, C Trespeuch, F Chemat… - Processes, 2020 - mdpi.com
Each year, the food supply chain produces more than 1.3 billion tons of food and agricultural
waste, which poses serious environmental problems. The loss of the massive quantity of …

Aluminium-biochar composites as sustainable heterogeneous catalysts for glucose isomerisation in a biorefinery

KM Iris, X Xiong, DCW Tsang, L Wang, AJ Hunt… - Green …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Aluminium-biochar composites (Al biochars) were devised to serve as a novel
heterogeneous catalyst for isomerisation of glucose to fructose to achieve sustainable …

Phosphoric acid-activated wood biochar for catalytic conversion of starch-rich food waste into glucose and 5-hydroxymethylfurfural

L Cao, KM Iris, DCW Tsang, S Zhang, YS Ok… - Bioresource …, 2018 - Elsevier
The catalytic activity of engineered biochar was scrutinized for generation of glucose and
hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) from starch-rich food waste (bread, rice, and spaghetti). The …

Aqueous‐natural deep eutectic solvent‐enhanced 5‐hydroxymethylfurfural production from glucose, starch, and food wastes

M Zuo, X Wang, Q Wang, X Zeng, L Lin - ChemSusChem, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) has been regarded as an essential building block for
synthesizing chemicals and biofuels, but the direct conversion of biomass to HMF is still a …

Production of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural from starch-rich food waste catalyzed by sulfonated biochar

L Cao, KM Iris, SS Chen, DCW Tsang, L Wang… - Bioresource …, 2018 - Elsevier
Sulfonated biochar derived from forestry wood waste was employed for the catalytic
conversion of starch-rich food waste (eg, bread) into 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) …

Insights into HMF catalysis

GP Perez, A Mukherjee, MJ Dumont - Journal of Industrial and Engineering …, 2019 - Elsevier
In recent decades, the concept of biorefinery has gained considerable momentum as a
promising approach to obtain energy commodity chemicals. 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) …