Delivering Low-Carbon Biofuels with Bioproduct Recovery

Lakhveer Singh is an Associate Professor at the Department of Chemistry, Sardar Patel University, Mandi, Himachal Pradesh-175001, India. Earlier, he worked as an Associate Professor at SRM University-AP and University Malaysia Pahang, Malaysia and as post-doctoral researcher at Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA. His major areas of research expertise are Energy Production, Bioelectrochemical Systems, Wastewater Treatment, and Nanomaterial Synthesis for Sustainable Applications. He is enlisted in the world top 2% scientists list released in 2021 by Stanford University in the field of energy and environment. Durga Madhab Mahapatra is an Assistant Professor (Selection Grade) at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Energy Cluster, School of Advanced Engineering, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES), Dehradun, India. Before joining UPES, he was with the Department of Biological and Ecological Engineering (BEE), School of Engineering (SoE), Oregon State University (OSU), Corvallis, OR, USA from 2016 onwards as a Postdoctoral Fellow, Teaching staff, and Affiliate. He completed his Doctoral studies in Bioprocess Engineering, from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore in 2015 from the Faculty of Engineering with a Gold Medal. His major areas of interest are Sustainable Bioprocess Development, Bioenergy and Bioresources, Wastewater Metagenomics, Wastewater Treatment and Waste Biorefinery, and Nano-biotechnological Applications in Agricultural, and Environmental Research.

1. Introduction to Electrobiocommodities and Low carbon fuels 2. Bio-electricity generation from BEFC 3.Applications of BEFC for H2 production 4. Biogas production from waste derived substrates 5. Potential of High Energy compounds: Hythane production 6. High value Volatile fatty Acids as formate and acetate from Bioelectrochemical system 7. Production of chemicals (Peroxide, Quaternary Ammonia Hydroxide, NaOH etc.) 8. Production of high value fuels: Polyalcohols and polyesters 9. Potential of BEFC in high value bio products: Waste derived Succinate 10. Integrated approaches simultaneous bioenergy and biochemical