Bioremoval of heavy metal from wastes : A bioremediation approach to combat hazardous heavy metals including mercury

ISBN-13: 9783659479441 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 268 str.

Mehul P. Dave; Shreyas Bhatt

Opis

Due to rapid industrialization and non judicious use of pesticides and herbicides, heavy metal pollution has tremendously increased, particularly in the area where large industrial processing units are situated and in the agricultural sector. Mercury is generally considered to be one of the most toxic metals found in the environment. Major sources of mercury wastes are the gold mining, agriculture and industries like paint, pulp, and paper, chloralkali, electrical, fertilizers, pharmaceutical and battery manufacturing. after their disposal. It is assumed that 50 % of Hg is released from products like clinical thermometers, fluorescence lamps, metal switches, batteries, pesticides, certain pharmaceutical drugs and other agricultural products. Adsorption or accumulation of heavy metals by microorganisms has received much attention recently due to its potential use in waste treatment processes involving removal of heavy metal pollutants from a contaminated environment.

O autorze

Dr. Mehul P. Dave, Ph.D (Microbiology). He is serving as an Associate Professor and Head, at Department of Microbiology, Gyanyagna College of Science and Management, Saurashtra University, Rajkot-India, since May 2000. The areas of his interest include environmental biotechnology, immunodiagnostics and microbiology.