Waste Management

Oleaginous Microbes for Waste Biomass Valorization
Editors: Dipankar Ghosh, PhD
Latika Bhatia, PhD

Oleaginous Microbes for Waste Biomass Valorization

Now on Press
Pub Date: Forthcoming September 2025
Hardback Price: see ordering info
Hard ISBN: 9781774918029
E-Book ISBN: 9781003538790
Pages: 402pp w/index
Binding Type: Hardback / ebook
Notes: 32 color and 10 b/w illustrations

This new book is one of the first books on waste biomass valorization utilizing oleaginous microbes, exploring the conversion of waste materials into valuable products, such as chemicals, materials, and fuels.

The book discusses the innovation, design, and impact of oleaginous microbial regimes toward the utilization of waste biomass for value-added microbial products. It places special emphasis on oleaginous microbial biosynthetic pathways and their bioengineering aspects for improving the generation of value-added biomolecules for sustainable biorefineries. Oleaginous Microbes for Waste Biomass Valorization provides updated information on utilization of waste-associated biomasses (waste from industrial, domestic, and agro-forestry; biomedical wastes; electronic wastes) for the biogenesis of high value-added biomolecules, i.e., biofuels, biofertizers, biopigments, biopolymers, vitamins, nutra-pharmaceuticals, etc., using native and genetically engineered oleaginous microbial assemblages. It also offers a detailed outline of biochemical and biotechnological aspects of oleaginous microbes on waste biomass recycling.

Key features:

  • Discusses the significance of oleaginous microbes on value-added biomolecule production
  • Looks at oleaginous microbial solutions for agro-industrial wastes
  • industrial waste, agro-forest residues, and electronic waste
  • Explores the role of oleaginous microbes in bioenergy generation and other products.
Consolidating the most recent advances in and prospects for oleaginous microbes for waste biomass valorization, this book will be a valuable source of information for researchers involved in waste recycling and others in the fields of microbiology, biotechnology, and bioprocess engineering.

CONTENTS:
Preface

1. Oleaginous Microbial Regimes Towards Utilization of Waste Biomass for Value-Added Products
Ankit Tiwari, Kusumlata Gayakwad, Divyanshu Singh, Naveen Kumar Vishvakarma, Dhananjay Shukla, Harit Jha, and Rajat Pratap Singh

2. Significance of Oleaginous Microbes on Value-Added Biomolecule Production
M. Indiraa, P. Satya Kavyaa, K. Vidya Prabhakarb, and O. N. Tiwaric

3. Oleaginous Microbes for Industrial Waste Degradation
Tanushree Sarkar, Rajat Pratap Singh, and Harit Jha

4. Significance of Process Parameter Optimization for Waste Biomass Degradation and Valorization
Rajesh K. Srivastava, Prakash K. Sarangi, and Latika Bhatia

5. Valorization of Agro-Industrial Wastes for Production of Microbial Oils from Oleaginous Microbes
Dowluru Svgk Kaladhar and Srinivasan Tantravahi

6. Oleaginous Microbes for the Production of Value-Added Products from Agro-Forest Residues
Ramzan Ahmed, Birson Ingti, and Noor Afsha

7. Valorization of Agroforestry Wastes for Bioenergy Generation
Priyanka Kashyap, Sony Kumari, and K. Leenthoingambi Singha

8. General Perspective on High Value-Added Product Generation with Special Emphasis on NPK Biofertilizers from Oleaginous Microbes
Palash Ghorai, Debanshi Mitra, Brototi Chakraborty, Dipika Shaw, and Dipankar Ghosh

9. Technological Views on Electronic Waste, Recycling, and Resource Recovery
Onkar Nath Tiwari, Soumya Sasmal, and Krushna Prasad Shadengi

10. General Perspectives on Lignocellulosic Biomass-Degrading Enzymes from Oleaginous Microbes
Somnath Das, Noiranjana Dasgupta, Suryasarathi Kumar, Punam Das, Avneet Kaur Toor, and Dipankar Ghosh

11. Bioengineering of Oleaginous Microorganisms for Biosynthesis of Fuels and Value-Added Biomolecules
K. T. Sunil Kumara, Kondi Vanithab, Alekhya Padvalaa, O. N. Tiwaric, A. Rameshd, M. Mohan Varmaa, and P. Ravi Prakash

12. Scaling-Up Studies on Lignocellulosic Waste Biomass Degradation Using the Oleaginous Microbial System
Somnath Das, Annesha Chakraborty, Noiranjana Dasgupta, Sohini Nandi, Juhi Paul, and Dipankar Ghosh

13. Downstream Processing Application on Waste Valorization Using Oleaginous Microbes for NPK Biofertilizer Generation
Palash Ghorai, Ranajit Bairagi, Dipita Das, Subhadeep Porel, and Dipankar Ghosh

14. Downstream Processing Applications on Waste Valorization for Value-Added Biomolecule Generation
Shubhra Tiwari, Jai Shankar Paul, Nisha Gupta, Dristi Verma, G. D. Sharma, and Shailesh Kumar Jadhav

Index


About the Authors / Editors:
Editors: Dipankar Ghosh, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Biosciences (Microbiology & Biotechnology), JIS University, Kolkata, India

Dipankar Ghosh, PhD, is Associate Professor at the Department of Biosciences (Microbiology & Biotechnology) at JIS University, Kolkata, India. His research interests are microbial engineering and algal biotechnology. He has pursued his research work as postdoctoral research associate and research fellow with full scholarships from different prestigious organizations that include Imperial College, London. UK; Pusan National University, South Korea; University of Turku, Finland; and IIT Kharagpur, India. In addition, he is currently being funded for industry-sponsored research projects to support his research activities at JIS University. He has supervised four PhD research scholars, 40 MSc project research trainees, and 10 internship students to date. He has published more than 70 peer-reviewed articles and reviews in esteemed international journals i.e. Trends in Biotechnology, Bioresources Technology, Biotechnology for Biofuels, Environmental Management, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Fuel, and Biomass Conversion, Biorefinery, and others. Dr. Ghosh has also published multiple book chapters. He was awarded his PhD from the University of Montreal, Canada, having received a PBEEE doctoral merit scholarship from the Govt. of Canada, MPhil from Annamalai University, India, and MSc from Calcutta University, India. He has qualified and completed a short-term course on Forensic Sciences at the University of Cambridge, UK.

Latika Bhatia, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology and Bioinformatics, Atal Bihari Vajpayee Vishwavidyalaya, Bilaspur, C.G., India

Latika Bhatia, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Bioinformatics at Atal Bihari Vajpayee Vishwavidyalaya, Bilaspur, C.G., India. She is responsible for academic and administrative responsibilities as a member of various committees, including academic councils and board of studies. She was also a coordinator of examinations, among other roles/ She has 24 years of teaching experience working at universities, teaching microbiology and biotechnology to graduates and postgraduates. She earned her PhD at ITM University, Gwalior, on Biofuel Technology. She is a recipient of a Summer Research Fellowship from the Indian Academy of Sciences–Banglore, Indian National Science Academy–New Delhi, the National Academy of Sciences–Allahabad (IASc-INSA-NASI), which she availed at the Indian Institute of Science Education & Research (IISER), Pune. She has awards and honors in her credit. She has been invited to deliver a technical talk at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS, New Delhi) and at many national and international conferences. She has published more than 35 research articles in peer-reviewed journals of an international repute as well as 15 book chapters, three monographs, and six books. Her citation index is more than 1200. Her primary research interest is in developing a sustainable process for bioconversion of lignocellulosics into renewable energy and biochemicals. A proactive research lead with an entrepreneurial mind-set, she brings hands-on strategic experience in research projects and start-ups for piloting to full commercial scale operations. She has also convened and organized more than ten national and internationals conferences, seminars, and workshops, funded by various reputed organizations like, DBT, DST, ICMR, and CGCOST. She has attended and presented papers at more than 30 conferences and workshops of national and international repute in India. She has successfully completed many consultancy and research projects. Dr. Bhatia is a reviewer for reputed journals from Springer, Elsevier, Wiley, Taylor and Francis, and PLoSOne and is a member of the national advisory committees of eminent universities. Dr. Bhatia has been a resource person, a keynote speaker, and a session chair at more than 20 national and international conferences, including UGC-HRD short term courses. Dr. Bhatia has developed an online certificate course on immunology, in collaboration with the Commonwealth Educational Media Center for Asia (CEMCA), available on the Web portal “e-atalgyansangum” on UGC’s specified four quadrant approaches. Dr. Bhatia is a recipient of a Best Teacher Award from Atal Bihari Vajpayee University for her academic contributions. She is also a convenor of the Bilaspur Chapter of Indian Science Congress Association, Kolkata. She has two German patents to her credit.




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