Thermochemical and Catalytic Conversion Technologies for Future Biorefineries

Dr. Pradeep Verma is a Professor at the Department of Microbiology, School of Life Sciences, CURAJ, Ajmer, India. He worked as an Associate professor and Reader-Founder Head at GGV, Bilaspur and Assam University, Silchar. He received his PhD from Sardar Patel University, Gujarat and his Master's and Bachelor’s from MDS University, Rajasthan. He worked as visiting scientist at UFZ Centre for Environmental Research, Halle, Germany and a Post-doctoral fellow at ASCR Prague, Gottingen University Germany, and RISH Kyoto University Japan. He also worked at Reliance Life Sciences, Mumbai, India. His stay at Japan and Reliance life Sciences resulted in several commercialized National and International patents. He is a recipient of various prestigious awards and fellowships such as the Ron-Cockcroft award by Swedish society, UNESCO Fellow, DFG fellow, and JSPS PDF. He is a fellow of the Mycological Society of India and the Biotech Research Society of India. His area of expertise involves microbial diversity, Bioremediation, bioprocess development, lignocellulosic, and algal biomass-based biorefinery.  He has contributed to 71+ research papers, 40+ book chapters, and 11 Edited books. He is an editorial board member and reviewer of several prestigious high-impact journals.

Chapter 1. Lignocellulosic Biomass Valorisation and Fate of Recalcitrant.- Chapter 2. Insight into various conventional physical and chemical methods for the pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass.- Chapter 3. Physical and chemical hydrolysis methods for breaking down the complex waste biomass to the fermentable sugars and value added products.- Chapter 4. Critical Evaluation of the role of Enzymes in the Integrated Biorefinery.- Chapter 5. Process efficacy in Cassava based Biorefinery: Scalable Process technology for the development of Green Monomer D-lactic acid.- Chapter 6. Synthesis of supports for lipase immobilisation using wastes for enhancing efficiency and reusability of enzymes.- Chapter 7. Valorization of Dairy Industry Waste into Functional Food using Lactase.- Chapter 8. Biorefineries: An Integrated Approach for Sustainable Energy Production.- Chapter 9. Biomass recalcitrance and omics approaches for understanding the chemistry affecting recalcitrance.- Chapter 10. Demonstration of application of Fungal xylanase in Fruit juice and Paper deinking and validation of its mechanism via in-silico investigation.- Chapter 11. Life Cycle Assessment of Thermochemical Conversion of Agro-residues.