Innovative Biosystems and Bioengineering: Announcements

Bioconversion of Wastes to Value-added Products - International publication of Ukrainian scientists' research

Innovative Biosystems and Bioengineering — 2023-09-06

The CRC Press Taylor & Francis group published the book Bioconversion of Wastes to Value-added Products under the leadership of the famous biochemist and nutritionist Octavio Paredes-López in collaboration with Ukrainian scientists Olena Stabnikova, Oleksandr Shevchenko and Viktor Stabnikov.

Nataliia Golub, the member of the Editorial Council of the Innovative Biosystems and Bioengineering, is the author of the chaper dedicated to biohydrogen production from cellulose-containing wastes.

Agricultural and food processing organic wastes contain valuable substances. Some of these organic wastes can be used as an additional source of important components to increase nutritional properties of traditional food products, others can be converted into energetic materials such as alcohol, bioethanol, hydrogen, and biogas. Application of a variety of wastes from industry, agriculture and food processing to turn them into valuable products pursues two goals at the same time, namely, the systematic and economically feasible use of the existing potential of useful products from non-recyclable wastes, as well as the creation of environmentally friendly technologies that protect the environment from potential contaminants.

This publication covers application of organic wastes as additives to enhance nutritional value of food, bioconversion of solid and liquid wastes into energy, such as biogas and hydrogen, and biotransformation of industrial and food processing wastes into biotechnological products. At the end, in a chapter, design, construction and testing of biosensors for food control are described in details.

The book covers the technological approaches of conversion of different organic wastes into valuable products and demonstrates real developments in organic waste utilization, and thus helping the students, lecturers, researchers, and engineers of food industry and environmental engineering by providing new knowledge on sustainable use of waste.

Keys Features includes:

- description of new technologies for utilization of wastes from oil production

- description of new technologies for utilization of wastes from dairy industry

- description of new technologies for utilization of wastes from wine industry

- description of new technologies for utilization of wastes from meat industry

- description of new technologies for utilization of wastes from bioethanol production.

We extend our congratulations to our colleagues and wish them continued success in their scientific endeavors!

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Innovative Biosystems and Bioengineering — 2022-06-17

COVID-19 Pandemic Dynamics

Innovative Biosystems and Bioengineering — 2021-06-23

We congratulate our regular author Igor Nesteruk on the publication of his book COVID-19 Pandemic Dynamics [1], which is the result of his efforts in mathematical modeling and forecasting the development of the pandemic in individual countries and around the world. He also analyzes the hidden periods of the pandemic and the impact of various factors on its course.

The emergence of new waves of the pandemic prompted the author to further research, which resulted in the development of a simple but effective method of determining the onset of these waves. He managed to generalize the known SIR model and proposed original methods for calculating the optimal values of its parameters, based on data on the number of reported cases in a given period of the epidemic wave. This made it possible to successfully model new epidemic waves in Ukraine and around the world. The results of these studies are also presented in the book [1]. Its hard copy can be found, in particular, in Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine.

Note that the journal Innovative Biosystems and Bioengineering published one of the first articles on the subject (modeling of the epidemic in China) – in February 2020 [2]. This article had attracted the interest of the international scientific community. The following articles by Igor Nesteruk in our journal were the development of research on the COVID-19 pandemic dynamics [3–5].

We wish the author success and future interesting works in mathematical biology, biological, and medical informatics and cybernetics.

[1] Nesteruk I. COVID-19 pandemic dynamics. Singapore: Springer; 2021. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-33-6416-5

[2] Nesteruk I. Statistics-based predictions of coronavirus epidemic spreading in mainland China. Innov Biosyst Bioeng. 2020;4(1):13-8. DOI: 10.20535/ibb.2020.4.1.195074

[3] Nesteruk I. Simulations and predictions of COVID-19 pandemic with the use of SIR model. Innov Biosyst Bioeng. 2020;4(2):110–1-21. DOI: 10.20535/ibb.2020.4.2.204274

[4] Nesteruk I, Benlagha N. Predictions of Covid-19 pandemic dynamics in Ukraine and Qatar based on generalized SIR model. Innov Biosyst Bioeng. 2021;5(1):37–46. DOI: 10.20535/ibb.2021.5.1.228605

[5] Nesteruk I. Visible and real sizes of new COVID-19 pandemic waves in Ukraine. Innov Biosyst Bioeng. 2021;5(2):85-96. DOI: 10.20535/ibb.2021.5.2.230487