BookMu. Naushad, Eric Lichtfouse, editors.
Summary: This book is the result of remarkable contribution from the experts of interdisciplinary fields of Science with comprehensive, in-depth and up-to-date research and reviews. It describes the applications of date palm for food, medicine and the environmental sectors. Date palm is one of the oldest cultivated trees and its fruit has been a dietary staple around the world for many centuries. Date pulps contain dietary fibers and easily digestible sugars (70%), mainly glucose, sucrose and fructose. They also contain vitamins like biotin, thiamine, riboflavin, ascorbic and folic acid that are important for our body. The date palm fruit has been used in folk remedies for the treatment of various infectious diseases, cancer and immuno-modulatory activity. Date stones and date palm leaves are freely and abundantly available biomass. Therefore, the renovation of agricultural biomass wastes into activated carbons for drinking water purification, wastewater treatment, treatment of dyes, and metal-ions from aqueous solution would add value to agricultural commodities which offer a solution to environmental problems as well as reduce the cost of waste disposal.
Contents:
Preface: Mu. Naushad and E. Lichtfouse Chapter 1. Date palm as a healthy food; P. Senthil Kumar, P.R. Yaashikaa Chapter 2. Analysis of antioxidants and nutritional assessment of date palm fruits; B.M. Gnanamangai, S. Saranya, P. Ponmurugan, S. Kavitha, P. Sudhagar, P. Divya Chapter 3. Nutritional and therapeutic applications of date palm from date palm; Prabu Periyathambi, Hemalatha Thiagarajan, Suganthan Veerachamy Chapter 4. Chemical Composition of Date Pits: Potential to Extract and Characterize the Lipid Fraction; Asif Ahmad, Hifsa Imtiaz Chapter 5. Biogas production from date palm fruits; P. Senthil Kumar and Femina Carolin Chapter 6. Valorization of waste date seeds for green carbon catalysts and biodiesel synthesis; Ala'a H. Al-Muhtaseb, Farrukh Jamil, Lamya Al Haj, Eyas Mahmoud, Mohamed Becherif, Sikander Rafiq Chapter 7. Different extraction methods, physical properties and chemical composition of date seed oil; Jawhar Fakhfakh, Sahar Ben-Youssef, Mu. Naushad and Noureddine Allouche Chapter 8. Production of glucose and lactic acid from cellulosic date palm wastes by enzymatic fermentation; Muhammad Tauseef Azam, Asif Ahmad Chapter 9. Application of date-palm fibers for the wastewater treatment; Marija Nujic, Natalija Velic, Mirna Habuda-Stanic Chapter 10. Recent updates on heavy metal remediation using date stones (Phoenix dactylifera L.)
Date fruit processing industry waste; N. Sivarajasekar, J. Prakashmaran, S. Poornima, S. Sivapriya, V. Gayathri, T. Pradeepika, V. Raghu, Mu. Naushad, S. Sivamani, Swapnil Dharaskar, Nirajan Dhakal Chapter 11. Removal of toxins from the environment using date palm seeds; Basma Al-Najar, Mohamed Bououdina, J. Judith Vijaya, Radhika R Nair, Tetiana Tatarchuk Chapter 12. Date palm based activated carbon for the efficient removal of organic dyes from aqueous environment; Shamik Chowdhury, Sharadwata Pan, Rajasekhar Balasubramanian, Papita Das Chapter 13. Date palm assisted nanocomposite materials for the removal of nitrate and phosphate from aqueous medium; Mirna Habuda-Stanic, Marija Nujic, Blanca Magdalena Gonzalez Silva, Sveinung Saegrov, Stein Wold Østerhus, Mario Siljeg.