Biodegradation of Toxic and Hazardous Chemicals

ISBN-13: 9781032453705 / Twarda / 2024 / 224 str.

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Prof Kashyap Kumar Dubey is currently working as Professor at School of Biotechnology, JNU New Delhi. His research interests are in biochemical engineering and wastewater treatment which includes process development of value added pharmaceutical products through optimization of enzyme reactions and toxicological studies of micro-pollutants.

 

Prof Kamal K Pant is currently Director, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee and has been Petrotech Chair Professor and Dean Faculty and Head of the Chemical Engineering Department at IIT Delhi. He is working on cutting edge and futuristic technologies for coal to methanol conversion, e-waste treatment, waste plastic conversion, biomass valorization, etc. using catalysis and reaction engineering.

 

Prof. Ashok Pandey is currently Distinguished Scientist at the Centre for Innovation and Translational Research, CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, Lucknow, India. His major research and technological development interests are industrial & environmental biotechnology and energy biosciences, focusing on biomass to biofuels & chemicals, waste to wealth, energy, industrial enzymes, etc.

 

Prof. Maria Ángeles Sanromán is the head of the Bioengineering & Sustainable Processes Group at the University of Vigo, Spain. Currently, main research lines carried out are Environmental Technology applied to soil and water remediation, Advanced Oxidation Processes; Reuse, Recycling & Valorisation of wastes; Green Chemistry and Catalyst.