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Compatible Technologies to Anaerobic Digestion for the Integral Valorization of Organic Waste

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The term “environmental biotechnology” has been coined to describe the use of biological systems, ranging from bacteria to plants, to achieve environmental remediation, pollution prevention, detection, and monitoring of contaminants, and more recently transforming waste to produce energy, biopolymers, and other benefits. Latin-American countries have a privileged location to develop ingenious and sustainable alternatives in environmental biotechnology. An advantage to do innovation in tropics is their biodiversity. Useful compounds can be produced in laboratory settings and/or full-scale operations. However, waste (solid, liquid, or gaseous) released into natural and confined (end of pipes) environments are normally mixtures of different chemical compounds and often microorganisms are part of this waste. Waste valorization can conduce to obtain more rentable by-products in bioremediation. To conduct the bioremediation join to valorization, many processes need to be implemented. Coupled biological processes can increase the efficiency and value to end products. In this chapter, different alternatives to valorize organic wastes under the anaerobic digestion-based biorefinery concept were reviewed. Advantages and challenges of developing countries to use environmental biotechnology and to solve waste problems were also analyzed.

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The authors gratefully acknowledge the support from Universidad del Valle and Universidad Nacional de Colombia-Sede Palmira to perform this work. Additionally, the authors acknowledge support from the Administrative Department of Science and Technology of Colombia (COLCIENCIAS).

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  1. School of Environmental & Natural Resources Engineering, Universidad del Valle, Santiago de Cali, Colombia

    Juan Carlos Clavijo-Salinas, John Fuertez & Janeth Sanabria

  2. Faculty of Engineering & Administration, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Palmira, Colombia

    Luz Stella Cadavid-Rodríguez

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Clavijo-Salinas, J.C., Fuertez, J., Cadavid-Rodríguez, L.S., Sanabria, J. (2020). Compatible Technologies to Anaerobic Digestion for the Integral Valorization of Organic Waste. In: Zakaria, Z., Boopathy, R., Dib, J. (eds) Valorisation of Agro-industrial Residues – Volume I: Biological Approaches. Applied Environmental Science and Engineering for a Sustainable Future. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39137-9_9

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