Agricultural and Industrial Waste Recovery Technology and Process Optimization

Dear Colleagues,

The management of waste and by-products from industrial and agri-food supply chains requires innovative solutions to guarantee sustainability. New processes, technologies, and applications are needed to face the environmental challenges they pose and to simultaneously supply new sources for the alternative production of materials, chemicals, and energy for future industries. Research on the effective exploitation of such waste is often related to the complex composition, high level of moisture, tendency to degrade easily, and thermosensitivity of the contained compounds, which imply the need for pretreatment, technical and economic issues, the revision of plant and equipment design, and process optimization.

We are pleased to invite you to contribute to this Special Issue aiming to collect new insights, methodologies, proposals, and solutions for the green, safe, cost-effective and disruptive valorization of agricultural and industrial wastes.

This Special Issue on “Agricultural and Industrial Wastes Recovery Technology and Processes Optimization” aims to present innovative solutions, methods, feasibility studies, and successful examples in the field of industrial and agri-food waste recovery.

Original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Design, optimization, safety aspects, and economics of the waste valorization process.
• Methodologies and optimization of techniques, equipment and plants, as well as pre-treatment and downstream processes aimed at reducing the environmental impact and improving yields for the recovery of high-added-value compounds from waste.
• Methodologies and optimization of techniques, equipment and plants, as well as pre-treatment and downstream processes aimed at reducing the environmental impact and improving yields for the conversion into energy.
• Development of new materials and products from waste and by-products.
• Industrial solutions and applicative case studies.

Dr. Margherita Pettinato
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Processes is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• process intensification
• process economics
• process optimization
• bioenergy
• circular economy
• emerging hazards
• biomaterials
• biopolymers
• environmental impact