Food Industry Wastes

Prof. Kosseva earned her PhD in technical sciences and chemical engineering, before going on to the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. She further developed her research and teaching skills at the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom, Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and Hiroshima University, Japan. The career progression took her also to the University College Dublin, Ireland. As a lecturer, she set up and led a new research laboratory and acted as a director of new MScEng programme in Biopharmaceutical Engineering. Later, at the University of Nottingham, Ningbo China she established a modern teaching laboratory and taught Biochemical and Materials Engineering modules. She has been awarded numerous international research grants by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, British Council, Royal Society, Medical Research Council (UK), and Water Research Commission (RSA), among others. Her expertise is in the fields of chemical/bioprocess engineering, waste management, environmental and food biotechnology. She acted as an external scientific consultant to several international companies, e.g., Pfizer International Ltd, Idemitsu Kosan Co Ltd, Sofia Airport, Lyascovets Winery, and Hitachi Plant Engineering Ltd. She works as independent scientific expert/evaluator on several European Commission Scientific Panels. She is an associated member of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, the Asian/European Federations of Biotechnology, and the International Solid Waste Association. Prof. Kosseva has authored about 100 scientific publications, which have been cited more than 2000 times. She is a lead editor of 3 books published by Academic Press/ Elsevier.

PART I. Food Industry Wastes: Challenges and Prospects
1. Definitions, measurements and drivers of food loss and waste
2. Effectiveness and efficiency of food waste prevention policies, circular economy and food industry
3. Sources, characteristics and treatment of plant-based food wastes
4. Sources, characteristics, treatment, and analyses of animal-based food wastes

PART II. Treatment of Solid Food Waste
5. Food waste: a potential bioresource for extraction of nutraceuticals and bioactive compounds
6. Valorization of citrus wastes through sustainable extraction processes
7. Solid state fermentation of food industry wastes
8. Microbial production of butanol from food industry waste
9. Inventory of food processing side streams in EU and prospects for biorefinery development
10. Valorisation of rice straw for ethylene and jet fuel production: A techno-economic assessment

PART III. Enhanced Bioprocessing of Liquid Food Waste
11. Biopolymers produced from food wastes: a case study on biosynthesis of bacterial cellulose from fruit juices
12. Fermentation of fruit and vegetable wastes for biobased products
13. Biotechnological approach for valorization of whey for value added products

PART IV. Environmental Assessment and Rehabilitation of Wastewater
14. Accounting for the environmental impact of food wastes on water resources and climate change
15. Application of life cycle assessment to food industry wastes
16. Microbial electrochemical production of energy and value-added chemicals from agri-food wastewater

Part V. Stimulating Innovations and Drivers for Prevention of Food Wastes
17. The dry chain: Reducing postharvest losses and improving food safety in humid climates
18. Market-based tools for reduction of food waste in grocery retail
19. Mathematical modelling approach applied to food waste reduction at retailer and consumer levels in food supply chain
20. Sharing platform and innovative business models: enablers and barriers in the innovation process
21. Management of hospitality food waste and the role of consumer behavior
22. Challenges with food waste management in the food cold chains

Concluding Remarks and Future Prospects