Material-Microbes Interactions: Environmental Biotechnological Perspective

ISBN-13: 9780323951241 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023

Nabin Aryal; Yifeng Zhang; Sunil A. Patil

Spis treści

A. Fundamentals and Advances

1. Environmental Microbial Biofilms: Formation, characteristics, and biotechnological applications

2. Microbes-material interactions for direct inter-species electron transfer in anaerobic digestion

3. Electron transfer processes between microbes and electrodes in bioelectrochemical reactors

4. Wastewater granules: material-microbe formation and arrangement lead to blurry boundaries between aerobic and anaerobic metabolism and greenhouse gas emissions

5. Recent progress in antibacterial membranes for water treatment

B. Specific applications

6. Role of electrode engineering in microbial electrochemical technologies for bioelectricity and biohydrogen production

7. The development of cathode materials for boosting the CO2 conversion in microbial electrosynthesis cells

8. Spatial surface modification of cathode materials in microbial electrosynthesis of chemicals from carbon dioxide

9. Material-microbe interaction for solar power-driven biochemical synthesis

10. Methanogens-electrode interaction for methane production from carbon dioxide

11. Enhanced anaerobic digestion by hydrochar for efficient biogas production

12. Harnessing microbes-material interfaces for micropollutants removal from different media

13. Constructed wetlands for wastewater management

14. Chemical activation of biochar supported metal oxides for degradation of organic/inorganic and microbial contaminants

15. Pathogens electrogenicity as a tool for in-situ metabolic activity monitoring and drug assessment in biofilms

16. Biomass gasification and biological system for cleaning syngas from gasifiers

C. Technology scale-up and sustainability

17. Techno-economic implications and life cycle assessment of MFC and MEC

18. Moving bed biofilm bioreactor (MBBR) for wastewater treatment: Techno-economic/sustainability aspects and recent trends

19. Granular and moving bed bioreactor based wastewater treatment plant: An industrial perspective