Production of organic acids from agro-industrial residues

Abstract

Most of the chapters in this book include information on the variety of agricultural wastes, agro-industrial by-products and residues produced globally and the authors of some of these chapters also have presented data on the annual yield of these renewable resources. Hence, not to repeat this information again here, this chapter deals with the utilization of these bio-resources for organic acid production. Couto (2008) has recently published an article on the exploitation of large scale biological wastes for the production of value-added products. The agricultural raw materials have been used for the bioconversion of their appropriate components for the production of various bio-products and in bio-refining (Koutinas et al. 2007b). © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009.