Environmental Microbial Biotechnology

✍ Scribed by Lala Behari Sukla, Nilotpala Pradhan, Sandeep Panda, Barada Kanta Mishra (eds.)

Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Year: 2015
Tongue: English
Leaves: 340
Series: Soil Biology 45
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book provides a timely review of strategies for coping with polluted ecosystems by employing bacteria, fungi and algae. It presents the vast variety of microbial technologies currently applied in the bioremediation of a variety of anthropogenic toxic chemicals, mining and industrial wastes and other pollutants.

Topics covered include: microbe-mineral interactions, biosensors in environmental monitoring, iron-mineral transformation, microbial biosurfactants, bioconversion of cotton gin waste to bioethanol, anaerobe bioleaching and sulfide oxidation. Further chapters discuss the effects of pollution on microbial diversity, as well as the role of microbes in the bioremediation of abandoned mining areas, industrial and horticultural wastes, wastewater and sites polluted with hydrocarbons, heavy metals, manganese and uranium.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
The Role of Microbial Activity in Sulfide Oxidation at Dumping Sites of Sulfidic Wastes and in Abandoned Mining Areas....Pages 1-31
Microbe–Mineral Interactions: Exploring Avenues Towards Development of a Sustainable Microbial Technology for Coal Beneficiation....Pages 33-52
Effect of Pollution on Aquatic Microbial Diversity....Pages 53-75
Role of Biosensors in Environmental Monitoring....Pages 77-90
Microbial Biosurfactant for Hydrocarbons and Heavy Metals Bioremediation....Pages 91-104
Anaerobic Treatment of Organic Saline Waste/Wastewater: Overcome Salinity Inhibition by Addition of Compatible Solutes....Pages 105-117
Uranium Bioremediation: Approaches and Challenges....Pages 119-132
Environmental-Microbial Biotechnology Inside Mining Operations from an Engineering Viewpoint Based on LCA....Pages 133-158
Neutrophilic Bacteria in Iron Mineral Transformation and Their Applications....Pages 159-178
Anaerobic Bioleaching by Acidophilic Bacterial Strains....Pages 179-201
Microbial Processing for Valorization of Horticultural Wastes....Pages 203-221
Microbial Interaction in Mining Soil....Pages 223-241
A Strategic Scheme for Resource Recovery from Sulfurous Industrial Wastes Through Plant–Microbe Interaction....Pages 243-266
Bioconversion of Cotton Gin Waste to Bioethanol....Pages 267-288
Microalgae: Cultivation and Application....Pages 289-311
Advances in Manganese Pollution and Its Bioremediation....Pages 313-328
Back Matter....Pages 329-338

✦ Subjects

Microbiology; Applied Microbiology; Waste Management/Waste Technology

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