Biohydrometallurgical Processes

ISBN-13: 9781032587813 / Twarda / 2023 / 384 str.

Opis

Biohydrometallurgical Processes: Metal Recovery and Remediation serves as a useful guide for microbiologists, biotechnologists and various industrialists dealing with mining, metallurgy, chemical engineering, and environmental sciences.

Spis treści

1. Formation Mechanisms and Prevention Strategies of Microorganism-influenced corrosion Biofilms. 2. Impacts of Biofouling on Marine Environments and its Prevention. 3. Metagenomic analysis of acid mine drainage, presence of Acidometallophiles and their possible role in Biomining. 4. Environmental rehabilitation of industrial waste dumping site. 5. Metagenomics based characterization of microbial diversity across industrial waste dumping sites. 6. Application of microbes in leaching rare earth elements and radioactive elements Bioleaching of Rare earth Elements: A challenge and Success. 7. Heavy metals clean up: the application of fungi for biosorption. 8. An Understanding of the Underlying Mechanisms involved in the Bacterial Remediation of Arsenic, Cadmium, and Lead. 9. Mechanism of Long Term Arsenic Remediation by Microbial Intervention. 10. Metagenomics for studying bioleaching bioreactor. 11. Bioleaching: Method of Microbial recovery of metal values from Industrial wastes. 12. “Treasure Hunt”: Converting E-waste to E-wealth. 13. Role of Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria in Sustainable Acid Mine Bioremediation. 14. Algae as a bioremediation of heavy metal associated water pollution.

O autorze

Dr. Satarupa Dey is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Botany at Shyampur Siddheswari Mahavidyalaya, affiliated to the University of Calcutta, West Bengal, India. She earned her BSc in Botany from the University of Calcutta, West Bengal, India. She holds also an MSc in Botany with Microbiology specialization from the same university. She completed her PhD in 2012, and her field of expertise is Bioremediation of Toxic Metals. She was selected as a Department of Biotechnology, Government of India research fellow and later worked as a visiting scientist in the Agricultural and Ecological Research Unit of the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. She is the recipient of the Woman Scientist (WOS A) fellowship of the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. She has published research and review articles in several journals of national and international repute. She has co-edited three books and is an active reviewer for many high-impact journals published by Elsevier, Springer Nature, and Nature Publishers.