Sustainable Radiation Technologies in Waste-Biomass Valorization: Greener Energy and High-Value Product Generation

本書介紹了過去和最近在廢棄生物質利用中應用輻射技術方面的進展。輻射技術對於克服生物質難降解性或直接將生物質轉化為生物油或高價值產品具有重要作用。本書展示了幾種基於輻射的技術，如微波、超聲波、γ射線、X射線、激光和電場。這些高度先進的尖端技術是可持續的方法，既能增加價值，又能處理廢棄物。這些技術正處於不同的發展階段，並已嘗試將它們應用於大規模應用；因此，本書關注每種技術的不同發展階段，並提出未來的建議和意見。本書不僅試圖涵蓋設備的設計和運作等技術方面，還涵蓋了每種技術的當前工業前景。它解決了阻礙其發展和應用於大規模應用的瓶頸，並介紹了技術實施的成本、市場覆蓋和政府政策。最後，它提供了基於輻射的技術在未來廢棄生物質基礎生物精煉的可持續增長的未來展望和機遇。本書提供了多學科觀點，對於機械和化學工程、生物物理學、生物加工、高價值產品生成和生物精煉等各個領域的廣泛讀者具有幫助和價值。

Prof. Pradeep Verma completed his Ph.D. from Sardar Patel University Gujarat, India, in 2002. He worked as a visiting scientist and Post Doctoral Researcher at UFZ Center for Environmental Research, Halle, and Gottingen University, Germany, respectively. He Joined Reliance Life Sciences, Mumbai and later he was awarded the JSPS Post-Doctoral Fellowship and joined the RISH, Kyoto University, Japan. Prof. Verma began his independent academic career in 2009 as a Reader and Founder Head at the Department of Microbiology at Assam University. In 2011, he joined Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya (A Central University), Bilaspur as an Associate Professor at the Department of Biotechnology.

Currently, he works as a Professor and Group Leader of the Bioprocess and Bioenergy laboratory at the Department of Microbiology, School of Life Sciences, Central University of Rajasthan Ajmer, India. His area of expertise involves Microbial Diversity, Bioremediation, Bioprocess Development, and Lignocellulosic and Algal Biomass based Biorefinery. He also holds 12 International patents in microwave-assisted biomass pretreatment and bio-butanol production. He has completed two collaborated projects worth 150 million INR in microbial diversity and bioenergy. He has more than 92+ research/review articles in peer-reviewed international journals and contributed to several 52+ book chapters in different edited books. He has also edited 20+ books for international publishers. . His work has attracted significant impact which is evident from 6370+ citations with h-index - 42, i-10- index-99 He is a Guest editor to the reviewer to several reputed journals of Springer, Frontiers, MDPI, Bentham Sciences, and T&F. He is a member of various National & International societies/academies. He is also a recipient of various prestigious awards such as the Ron-Cockcroft Award by the Swedish society, and UNESCO Fellow ASCR Prague. He has been awarded with Fellow of Mycological Society of India (MSI-2020), Prof. P.C. Jain Memorial Award, Mycological Society of India 2020, and Fellow of Biotech Research Society, India (2021).

Dr. Bikash Kumar is currently working as a National Post-Doctoral Fellow, at the Indian Institute of Technology, Indore, He received his BSc (Hons-2012) and MSc (Distinction-2014) in Biotechnology and Bioinformatics from Guru Ghasidas University, Bilaspur (A Central University) and Pondicherry Central University respectively. Later, in 2014 he joined the Bioprocess and Bioenergy Laboratory under the research supervision of Prof Pradeep Verma from the Department of Microbiology, Central University of Rajasthan, India. The research was focused on biomass pretreatment, and microbial enzyme production (cellulases, laccase, xylanases) for greener energy and environment. He received his Ph.D. in 2021 and Post PhD, he worked as a Research Associate at the Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati. He has contributed 19 research/review papers in reputed peer-reviewed journals, and 19 book chapters in edited books published in Springer, CRC Press, and Elsevier. He has been acknowledged for providing technical support to Prof. Pradeep Verma in editing 11 books. His work has attracted significant impact which is evident from 1980+ citations with h-index - 21, i-10- index-27. He is the recipient of several awards i.e., AMI-Young Scientist Award, INSA-NASI-SRF, CSIR-SRF, JNMF scholarship, DST-SERB N-PDF, etc. He is a reviewer of 20+ peer-reviewed research journals and a Guest Editor in reputed journals.

Prof. Pradeep Verma於2002年在印度古吉拉特邦的Sardar Patel大學完成了他的博士學位。他分別在德國的UFZ環境研究中心和哥廷根大學擔任訪問科學家和博士後研究員。他加入了孟買的Reliance生命科學公司，後來獲得了JSPS博士後獎學金並加入了日本京都大學的RISH研究所。Verma教授於2009年開始了他獨立的學術生涯，成為阿薩姆大學微生物學系的讀者和創始主任。2011年，他加入了比拉斯普爾的Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya（一所中央大學）生物技術系擔任副教授。

目前，他在印度阿杰梅爾中央大學生命科學學院微生物學系的生物過程和生物能源實驗室擔任教授和研究團隊負責人。他的專業領域包括微生物多樣性、生物修復、生物過程開發以及木質纖維素和藻類生物質基生物精煉。他還擁有12項國際專利，涉及微波輔助生物質預處理和生物丁醇生產。他在微生物多樣性和生物能源方面完成了價值1.5億印度盧比的兩個合作項目。他在同行評審的國際期刊上發表了92多篇研究/評論文章，並為不同編輯的書籍撰寫了52多篇章節。他還為國際出版商編輯了20多本書籍。從6370多次引用和h指數-42、i-10指數-99可以看出，他的工作具有顯著的影響力。他是Springer、Frontiers、MDPI、Bentham Sciences和T&F等知名期刊的審稿人和客座編輯。他還是各種國家和國際學會/學院的成員。他還獲得了瑞典學會的Ron-Cockcroft獎和聯合國教科文組織在布拉格的研究員獎。他還獲得了印度真菌學會（MSI-2020）的會士、印度真菌學會2020年的P.C. Jain紀念獎和印度生物技術研究學會（2021）的會士。

Dr. Bikash Kumar目前在印度印度理工學院印多爾分校擔任國家博士後研究員。他於2012年在比拉斯普爾的古魯·賈希達斯大學（一所中央大學）和Pondicherry中央大學分別獲得生物技術和生物信息學的學士（榮譽-2012）和碩士（優異-2014）學位。後來，他於2014年加入了印度拉賈斯坦中央大學微生物學系Pradeep Verma教授的生物過程和生物能源實驗室進行研究。該研究的重點是生物質預處理和微生物酶（纖維素酶、漆酶、木聚糖酶）的生產，以實現更環保的能源和環境。他於2021年獲得博士學位，博士後期間，他在印度古瓦哈蒂理工學院生物科學與生物工程系擔任研究助理。他在知名同行評審期刊上發表了19篇研究/評論論文，並在Springer、CRC Press和Elsevier出版的編輯書籍中撰寫了19篇章節。他因在編輯11本書籍中為Pradeep Verma教授提供技術支持而受到表彰。從1980多次引用和h指數-21、i-10指數-27可以看出，他的工作具有顯著的影響力。他獲得了多個獎項，如AMI青年科學家獎、INSA-NASI-SRF、CSIR-SRF、JNMF獎學金、DST-SERB N-PDF等。他是20多個同行評審研究期刊的審稿人和知名期刊的客座編輯。