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Biological Approaches to Controlling Pollutants

  • 1st Edition - September 16, 2021
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Sunil Kumar, Muhammad Zaffar Hashmi
  • Language: English

Biological Approaches to Controlling Pollutants, the latest release in the Advances in Pollution Research series, is a comprehensive guide on the most up-to-date biologica… Read more

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Description

Biological Approaches to Controlling Pollutants, the latest release in the Advances in Pollution Research series, is a comprehensive guide on the most up-to-date biological methods for remediation of pollutants across a variety of industries, with consideration for the advantages, disadvantages and applications of each method. Considering the increasing levels of pollution and contaminated sites worldwide from high population growths and industrial expansion, the most recent advances in biological remediation techniques is an important field of study and one in which researchers need the most cutting-edge methodologies.

This book is a necessary read for environmental scientists, along with postgraduates, academics and researchers working in the area of environmental pollution. It will also be of interest to environmental engineers and any other practitioners who need to evaluate the latest advances in biotechnological control of pollutants.

Key features

  • Presents the most cutting-edge advances in a variety of fields relevant to the use of biotechnology and biological techniques in pollutant control
  • Provides in-depth information and methodologies for applying bioremediation to a variety of pollutants
  • Written by a worldwide team of authors to provide a global perspective on the advances in bioremediation

Readership

Postgraduates, academics and researchers working in the area of environmental pollution or environmental science. Environmental engineers and any other practitioners who need to evaluate the latest advances in biotechnological control of pollutants

Table of contents

1. Advances in Bioremediation: An introduction, applications and limitations

2. Advances in Microbial Management of Soils

3. Advances in Bioremediation in Wastewaters

4. Advances in Phytoremediation of Metal Contaminated Sites

5. Toxicological Effects of Uranium Contamination on Environment

6. Advances in Bioremediation of Health Hazards

7. Plastic Wastes Management and Health Hazards

8. Advances in Biodegradation and Bioremediation of Pesticides Contamination in Environment

9. Advances in Toxic metals contamination and its bioremediation

10. Advances in Dyes contaminations: Health Hazards, Biodegradation and Bioremediation

11. Advances in Bioremediation of Industrial Wastewater Containing Metal Pollutants

12. Advances in Microbial and Enzymatic Degradation of Lindane at Contaminated sites

13. Advances in Role of Microbial Cellulases in Paper and Pulp Industry

14. Advances in Non-Aqueous Phase Liquids Pollution in Soil, Water and It’s Bioremediation

15. Advances in Bioremediation of Organometallic Pollutants: Strategies and Future Roadmap

16. Advances in Role of Metal Oxide Nanoparticles in Remediation of Environmental Pollutants

17. Advances in methodological approaches for Bioremediation

18. Advances in Bioremediation of biosurfactants and Biomedical Wastes

19. Aquaponics and Aquaculture water management

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: September 23, 2021
  • Language: English

About the editors

SK

Sunil Kumar

Sunil Kumar received his master’s degree in biotechnology from Devi Ahilya University, Indore, in 2006 and his PhD in biotechnology from the Department of Gastroenterology, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, in 2011. He completed postdoctoral training at Gangnam Severance Hospital, Yonsei University, South Korea, and later at the UNESCO Regional Centre for Biotechnology, India, where he worked on Salmonella-mediated alterations in host SUMOylation and infection biology. His research interests include infection biology and the molecular immunology of neurological diseases. He joined Shri Ramswaroop Memorial University, Barabanki, in 2013 as a founding faculty member of the Department of Biotechnology and currently serves as Associate Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Biosciences. He has supervised numerous undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral research projects, with several students receiving national research fellowships. Kumar has authored more than forty peer-reviewed publications, ten book chapters, and edited five books with international publishers. He serves as associate editor for Current Molecular Pharmacology and Current Signal Transduction Therapy, and as a reviewer and editorial board member for multiple journals. His international collaborations span institutions in Serbia, Slovenia, and Portugal, as well as leading research centers in India. He is a life member of several scientific societies and an executive council member of the Society for Biotechnologists (India).
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor and Dean, Faculty of Biosciences, Institute of Biosciences and Technology, Shri Ramswaroop Memorial University, Lucknow-Deva Road, Barabanki, Uttar Pradesh, India

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Muhammad Zaffar Hashmi

Dr. Muhammad Zaffar Hashmi is Assistant Professor of Environmental Engineering in the Department of Chemistry, COMSATS University, Pakistan. He received his Ph.D. in Environmental Chemistry and Toxicology from Zhejiang University, China. Dr. Hashmi’s research interests are analytical chemistry and the development of treatment technologies to control environmental and industrial pollution. He also has expertise in developing environmentally sustainable and feasible technologies including bioremediation, using innovative microbes and genes, plants, and microcosms. He has edited seven books, 14 book chapters, 80 original research articles and is currently series editor of two environmental contaminant book series. Dr. Hashmi is also an Associate Editor of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences. Dr. Hashmi is Member of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences, International Toxicology Society, HEC and PSF Research Grants Committee, and has been awarded a KANS Prize in OIC countries by MUSTAFA Science and Technology Foundation.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, COMSATS University, Pakistan

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