Discusses the applications of microorganisms as a crucial solution for the sustainable management of toxic pollutants. It describes the microbial remediation of different kinds of pollutants like wastewater, antibiotics, and toxic chemicals.
This reference book discusses the applications of microorganisms as a crucial solution for the sustainable management of toxic pollutants. It describes the microbial remediation of different kinds of pollutants like wastewater, antibiotics, and toxic chemicals. It highlights the technical, scientific, regulatory, safety, and societal impacts of various sustainable biodegradation approach. The book describes various sensors in environmental pollution monitoring and pollutant detection.
Key features-
Provides a deep understanding of the use of sensors in environmental water monitoring and pollutant detection
Covers exciting topics like biological upcycling of plastic wastes into value-added chemicals
Presents future research needs on biodegradation and scientific challenges in the mitigation of environmental pollutants
Brings out the latest themes such as Eco-design study of bio-nanomaterials, bio-nanofilters, and assessment for the treatment of emerging pollutants
Reviews the biodegradation of toxicants to improve the quality of water and air, and environmental sustainability
This book is meant for scientists, ecologists, microbiologists, industry experts, researchers, students, innovators involved in biotechnology research and policymakers focused on bioremediation.
Preface
Editor Biographies
List of contributors
1. Electrochemical Sensors for Environmental Water Monitoring
Isabel Seguro, Patrķcia Rebelo, Joćo Pacheco, Henri Nouws, and Cristina
Delerue-Matos
2. Monitoring and control of toxic chemicals through different sensors
Farzana Naushin, Akanksha Kumari, Ayushi Tanwar, Ranjita Ghosh Moulick and
Jaydeep Bhattacharya
3. Sources and Fate of Antibiotics in the Environment
Sanchari Basak, Akshay Kumar, Deepanshi Rajput, Anshu Baldia, Kashyap Kumar
Dubey, Sandip Chakrabarti
4. An overview of Bioremediation using Bioadsorbents
Suranjana Sarkar, Tina Basu, Subhamoy Banerjee, Ruchira Mukherjee
5. Microbial and Enzymatic Mineralization of Pharmaceuticals Compounds
Magdalena de Jesśs Rostro-Alanis, Alejandra Flórez-Restrepo, Sofķa Rodrķguez
de Luna, Xiomara López-Legarda, Eduardo Torres Ramķrez, Elda Ariadna Flores
Contreras, Carlos Castillo Zacarķas, Freimar Segura-Sįnchez, José
Rodrķguez-Rodrķguez and Roberto Parra-Saldķvar
6. Microbial and Enzymatic Degradation of Plastics Waste in Water
Magdalena de Jesśs Rostro-Alanis, Alexander Meneses-Jįcome, Marķa Asunción
Molina Esquinas, Lynette Alvarado Ramķrez, Manuel Sįnchez-Sįnchez, Rosa Marķa
Blanco Martķn, Carlos Castillo Zacarķas, Roberto Parra-Saldķvar
7. Hybrid approaches for the mineralization of toxic chemicals
Ashok Kumar Gupta, Adarsh Singh, Duduku Saidulu, Ashish Srivastava, Akash
Rawat
8. Biological upcycling of plastic wastes into value-added chemicals
Siseon Lee, Hye Jin Lim, Hye Min Song, Bong Hyun Sung, Si Jae Park and Jeong
Chan Joo*
9. Microbial Fuel Cells for Hazardous Wastewater Treatment
Arti Sharma and Meenu Chhabra*
Index
Prof Kashyap Kumar Dubey is currently working as Professor at School of Biotechnology, JNU New Delhi. His research interests are in biochemical engineering and wastewater treatment which includes process development of value added pharmaceutical products through optimization of enzyme reactions and toxicological studies of micro-pollutants.
Prof Kamal K Pant is currently Director, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee and has been Petrotech Chair Professor and Dean Faculty and Head of the Chemical Engineering Department at IIT Delhi. He is working on cutting edge and futuristic technologies for coal to methanol conversion, e-waste treatment, waste plastic conversion, biomass valorization, etc. using catalysis and reaction engineering.
Prof. Ashok Pandey is currently Distinguished Scientist at the Centre for Innovation and Translational Research, CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, Lucknow, India. His major research and technological development interests are industrial & environmental biotechnology and energy biosciences, focusing on biomass to biofuels & chemicals, waste to wealth, energy, industrial enzymes, etc.
Prof. Maria Įngeles Sanromįn is the head of the Bioengineering & Sustainable Processes Group at the University of Vigo, Spain. Currently, main research lines carried out are Environmental Technology applied to soil and water remediation, Advanced Oxidation Processes; Reuse, Recycling & Valorisation of wastes; Green Chemistry and Catalyst.
Biežāk uzdotie jautājumi par e-grāmatām