Environmental Microbiology: Emerging Technologies

✍ Scribed by Maulin Shah (editor)

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 352
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book highlights the importance of various emerging technologies that are used to clean up the environment from pollution caused by human activities. It assesses several existing applied and environmental microbiological techniques and introduces new technologies through applied aspects. Select topics covered include municipal wastewater treatment, environmental microorganisms, metal pollutants in the environment, and biogeochemical cycling.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
List of authors by chapter
1 Omics approaches for characterization of environmental microorganisms
2 Emerging technologies in environmental microbiology
3 Pollutants removal using aerobic granular sludge technology
4 Biofilm-mediated industrial wastewater treatment
5 Photocatalytic degradation of organic contaminants in wastewater treatment
6 Biodegradation of organic pollutants by microbial process
7 Bauxite residue (red mud): microbial resources and their possible exploitation in remediation and rehabilitation
8 Advancements in application of dispersants to oil spills
9 Serpentinophytes-associated microbiota: a review of applications in environmental biotechnology
10 Microbial desalination cell: a versatile insight towards sustainable contribution
11 Control of antibiotic resistance by advanced treatment: recent advances, in a nutshell
12 Metal pollutants in the environment
13 The language of gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria
Index