Biodegradation of Toxic and Hazardous Chemicals by Dubey, Kashyap K.; Pant, Kamal K.; Pandey, Ashok;

Rövid leírás:

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.

Hosszú leírás:

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 approaches. 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.

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Preface

Editor Biographies

List of contributors

1.   Electrochemical Sensors for Environmental Water Monitoring

Isabel Seguro, Patrícia Rebelo, João 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 Jesús Rostro-Alanis, Alejandra Flórez-Restrepo, Sofía Rodríguez de Luna, Xiomara López-Legarda, Eduardo Torres Ramírez, Elda Ariadna Flores Contreras, Carlos Castillo Zacarías, Freimar Segura-Sánchez, José Rodríguez-Rodríguez and Roberto Parra-Saldívar

6.       Microbial and Enzymatic Degradation of Plastics Waste in Water

Magdalena de Jesús Rostro-Alanis, Alexander Meneses-Jácome, María Asunción Molina Esquinas, Lynette Alvarado Ramírez, Manuel Sánchez-Sánchez, Rosa María Blanco Martín, Carlos Castillo Zacarías, Roberto Parra-Saldívar

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