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Development in Wastewater Treatment Research and Processes

Microbial Degradation of Xenobiotics through Bacterial and Fungal Approach

  • 1st Edition - February 16, 2022
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Maulin P. Shah, Susana Rodriguez-Couto
  • Language: English

Development in Wastewater Treatment Research and Processes: Microbial Degradation of Xenobiotics through Bacterial and Fungal Approach covers the active and applicable role that b… Read more

Description

Development in Wastewater Treatment Research and Processes: Microbial Degradation of Xenobiotics through Bacterial and Fungal Approach covers the active and applicable role that bacteria and fungi play in the degradation of xenobiotic compounds from the environment. The book gives up-to-date information on recent advancements in the field of environmental xenobiotics and how they disturb a plant's metabolism. The book also gives information on aerobic and anaerobic degradation of xenobiotic compounds through bacteria or fungi and/or a combined approach. Finally, the book covers the characteristics of environmental microbiology, biochemical engineering, agricultural microbiology, environmental engineering, and soil bioremediation.

Key features

  • Emphasizes up-to-date research on the microbial degradation of xenobiotic compounds through a bacterial-fungal approach
  • Covers multidisciplinary features of environmental microbiology, biochemical engineering, agriculture microbiology, environmental engineering and soil bioremediation
  • Includes sections on aerobic and anaerobic degradation
  • Presents the significance of the bacterial-fungal role and their metabolic activities in the digestion of xenobiotic compounds
  • Focuses on the most recent developments in environmental biotechnology to enhance the action of the bacterial-fungal systems in the remediation of xenobiotic compounds

Readership

Researchers, Environmentalists, Microbiologists, Biotechnologists, Environmental Engineers, Waste Treatment Engineers and Managers, Scientists. Environmental Science Managers, Administrators, and Policy Makers, Environmental Consultants, Industry Persons and Doctoral Level who aspire to work on the treatment and reuse of sewage sludge for environmental safety and sustainable development

Table of contents

1. Microbial Decolorization of Colored Industrial Effluents

2. Bioremediation of Metals Mediated by Marine Bacteria

3. Cyanoremediation: A Green Clean Technology

4. Bioremediation of Petroleum Hydrocarbons in Soils

5. Enzymatic Bioremediation: Current Status, Challenges of Obtaining Process, and Applications

6. Catalytic Promiscuity of Aromatic Ring-Hydroxylating Dioxygenases and Their Role in the Plasticity of Xenobiotic Compound Degradation

7. Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs): Environmental Fate, Challenges and Bioremediation

8. Microbial Degradation of Cyanides and Nitriles

9. Biodegradation of the Explosives TNT, RDX and HMX Chapter 10: Microbial Degradation of Polychlorophenols

10. Microbial Styrene Degradation: From Basics to Biotechnology

11. Biodegradation of Mono-Aromatic Hydrocarbons by Fungi

12. Bacterial Degradation of High Molecular Weight Polynuclear Aromatic Hydrocarbons

13. Microbial Degradation of PAHs: Organisms and Environmental Compartments

14. Bioremediation of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs): Current Practices and Outlook

15. Biodegradation of Synthetic Parathyroid Insecticides

16. Microbial Degradation of Dye-Containing Wastewater

17. Bacterial Degradation of Petroleum Hydrocarbons

18. Microbial Degradation of Recalcitrant PAHs-Microbial Diversity Involving Remediation Process

19. Microbial Degradation of Alkanes

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: February 18, 2022
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Maulin P. Shah

Dr. Maulin P. Shah is an active researcher and microbial biotechnologist with diverse research interest. His primary interest is the environment, the quality of our living resources and the ways that bacteria can help to manage and degrade toxic wastes and restore environmental health. Consequently, His work has been focused to assess the impact of industrial pollution on microbial diversity of wastewater following cultivation dependant and cultivation independent analysis.

Affiliations and expertise
Environmental Microbiology Consultant, Gujarat, India

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Susana Rodriguez-Couto

Susana Rodríguez-Couto is a professor in biological water treatment at LUT University, Finland. She got her B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Chemistry (Industrial Chemistry) from the University of Santiago de Compostela in 1992 and her Ph.D. in Chemistry in 1999 from the University of Vigo, obtaining the maximal grade (magna cum laude) and, in addition, she was awarded with the Extraordinary Prize for Doctoral Thesis in Chemistry. She worked as an Associate Professor and an Isidro Parga Pondal Senior Researcher at the University of Vigo (2000-2004), as a Ramón y Cajal Senior Researcher at Rovira i Virgili University (2004-2008) and as an Ikerbasque Research Professor (2009-2019). She has also worked as an Invited Researcher at the Institute from Environmental Biotechnology, Graz University of Technology (Austria) and at the Department of Biological Engineering, University of Minho (Portugal). In 2008, she received the I3 Professor from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Education to the recognition of an outstanding research activity. She has published more than 140 articles in highly reputed international journals (h index 42). She is editor of several journals (3Biotech, Frontiers) and 14 Elsevier books.
Affiliations and expertise
Full Professor (Biological Water Treatment), Department of Separation Science, LUT School of Engineering Science, LUT University, Finland

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