Long description:

Material-Microbes Interactions: Environmental Biotechnological Perspective brings great insights into microbes-material interactions, biofilm formation and emerging bioprocesses within the field of applied biotechnology. The book systematically summarizes the fundamental principles, the state-of-the-art in microbes-material interaction, and its application in bioprocess and environmental technology development. Understanding the fundamental processes of biofilm formation, the role of material to exchange the energy with microbes, biofilm matrix, and optimization of the biofilm formation process is useful to everyone involved with bioprocess development. This book will be of significant interest to environmental technology developers, researchers, university professors, policymakers, graduate and postgraduate students and other stakeholders.

Interestingly, academic institutions, wastewater treatment plants and research centers have upscaled biofilm-based environmental technologies, such as moving bed bioreactors, microalgae, tricking bed reactors, biofilters, and bioelectrochemical process as promising environmental technologies.

Table of Contents:

A. Fundamentals and Advances

1. Environmental Microbial Biofilms: Formation, characteristics, and biotechnological applications

2. Microbes-material interactions for direct inter-species electron transfer in anaerobic digestion

3. Electron transfer processes between microbes and electrodes in bioelectrochemical reactors

4. Wastewater granules: material-microbe formation and arrangement lead to blurry boundaries between aerobic and anaerobic metabolism and greenhouse gas emissions

5. Recent progress in antibacterial membranes for water treatment

B. Specific applications

6. Role of electrode engineering in microbial electrochemical technologies for bioelectricity and biohydrogen production

7. The development of cathode materials for boosting the CO2 conversion in microbial electrosynthesis cells

8. Spatial surface modification of cathode materials in microbial electrosynthesis of chemicals from carbon dioxide

9. Material-microbe interaction for solar power-driven biochemical synthesis

10. Methanogens-electrode interaction for methane production from carbon dioxide

11. Enhanced anaerobic digestion by hydrochar for efficient biogas production

12. Harnessing microbes-material interfaces for micropollutants removal from different media

13. Constructed wetlands for wastewater management

14. Chemical activation of biochar supported metal oxides for degradation of organic/inorganic and microbial contaminants

15. Pathogens electrogenicity as a tool for in-situ metabolic activity monitoring and drug assessment in biofilms

16. Biomass gasification and biological system for cleaning syngas from gasifiers

C. Technology scale-up and sustainability

17. Techno-economic implications and life cycle assessment of MFC and MEC

18. Moving bed biofilm bioreactor (MBBR) for wastewater treatment: Techno-economic/sustainability aspects and recent trends

19. Granular and moving bed bioreactor based wastewater treatment plant: An industrial perspective