Modern Approaches in Waste Bioremediation Environmental Microbiology

The book highlights the importance of newly developed bioremediation technologies in industrial waste treatment to clean up the environment from pollution caused by human activities. It assesses the potential application of several existing bioremediation techniques and introduces new emerging and application-based technologies.

Bioremediation: The solution to rising pollution.- Role of microbes in cleaning the environment.- Various approaches in bioremediation process.- New advances in use of microbial culture for industrial waste treatment.- Importance of aerobic bioremediation.- Anaerobic bioremediation: types, methods and implementations.- Removal of heavy metals using bio-remedial techniques.- Use of genetic engineering in bioremediation.- Microbes in industrial waste treatment.- Bioremediation of radioactive wastes.- Application of fungi in bioremediation.- Modern enhanced In-Situ techniques of bioremediation.- Advanced role of biosurfactants.- Nanotechnology for bioremediation of industrial wastewater treatment.- Emerging pollutants from the industries and their treatment.

Maulin P. Shah is currently the Chief Scientist & Head of the Industrial Waste Water Research Lab, Division of Applied and Environmental Microbiology Lab at Enviro Technology Ltd., India. His work involves areas ranging from applied microbiology, environmental biotechnology, bioremediation, and industrial liquid waste management to solid state fermentation, as well as assessment of the impact of industrial pollution on microbial diversity of wastewater. He has edited 175 books in Industrial wastewater microbiology area.