Biotechnologies for Wastewater Treatment and Resource Recovery
Current Trends and Future Scope
- 1st Edition - November 1, 2024
- Editors: Arun Lal Srivastav, Inga Zinicovscaia, Maulin P. Shah, Liliana Cepoi
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 7 3 7 6 - 6
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 7 3 7 7 - 3
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Request a sales quoteBiotechnologies for Wastewater Treatment and Resource Recovery: Current Trends and Future Scope presents the most up-to-date insights into the water crisis stemming from wastewater production. Edited by experts in the field, the chapters are structured around different types of bioremediation approaches (phytoremediation, myco-remediation, bio-stimulation, bio-augmentation, rhizoremediation, etc.) all applied in the context of wastewater treatment. This comprehensive resource equips students, research scholars, and policy makers with a holistic understanding of wastewater treatment and resource recovery through bioremediation techniques. Abundant real-world applications and case studies empower readers to make well-informed decisions, ensuring the efficient utilization of energy and efforts in addressing this critical issue.
1. Wastewater: Generation, Treatment options, Reuse and future of resource recovery
2. Significance of biological approaches/bioremediaion of wastewater treatment over physico-chemical methods: A comparative analysis
3. Role of bacteria in bioremediation of wastewater and resource recovery
4. Recent trends of phyto-remediation for the wastewater treatment and resource recovery
5. Role of bio-refineries in wastewater treatment and bio-energy production
6. Bio-augmentation for heavy metal treatment present in wastewater
7. Wastewater treatment and resource recovery through Rhizoremediation
8. Bioremediation of pesticides present in water: State of art and future scope
9. Role of fungi in wastewater treatment: Recent trends and mechanism
10. Limitations and challenges of bioremediation approach: Alternative solutions
11. Integration of bioremediation and physico-chemical methods for wastewater treatment and resource recovery
12. Scope of bioremediation of wastewater for emerging water contaminants like pharmaceuticals, microplastics, antibiotics etc.
13. Artificial wetlands construction for controlled bioremediation of wastewater
14. Valorisation of wastewater treatment through bioremediation approach
15. Sustainable wastewater treatment through micro-algae and other biotic community for bioenergy production
16. Role of bioremediation of wastewater in sustainable development goals and circular economy
17. Role of plants as bioindicators of water pollution and treatment of water contaminations
18. Role of bryophytes as biomonitors and bioindicators of water pollution and as bioremediation tools
19. Application of modern tools for the real time monitoring of bioremediation approach and its advantages
20. Case studies on bioremediation of domestic/industrial wastewater for the elimination of heavy metals/emerging water contaminants/pesticides/ microplastics etc.
21. Case studies on bioenergy production and wastewater treatment.
22. Case study on the biopolymer production through wastewater treatment using biotechnology
23. Feasibility of reuse of treated wastewater through bioremediation approach for domestic or industrial applications
24. Industrial scope of recovered valuable resources, types and application: Technical and Economic feasibilities”.
25. Future perspectives of wastewater treatment.
26. Bioremediation for emerging organic pollutants (pesticides, dyes etc): Present and Future
27. Role of biotechnology in the recovery of nutrients from wastewater
2. Significance of biological approaches/bioremediaion of wastewater treatment over physico-chemical methods: A comparative analysis
3. Role of bacteria in bioremediation of wastewater and resource recovery
4. Recent trends of phyto-remediation for the wastewater treatment and resource recovery
5. Role of bio-refineries in wastewater treatment and bio-energy production
6. Bio-augmentation for heavy metal treatment present in wastewater
7. Wastewater treatment and resource recovery through Rhizoremediation
8. Bioremediation of pesticides present in water: State of art and future scope
9. Role of fungi in wastewater treatment: Recent trends and mechanism
10. Limitations and challenges of bioremediation approach: Alternative solutions
11. Integration of bioremediation and physico-chemical methods for wastewater treatment and resource recovery
12. Scope of bioremediation of wastewater for emerging water contaminants like pharmaceuticals, microplastics, antibiotics etc.
13. Artificial wetlands construction for controlled bioremediation of wastewater
14. Valorisation of wastewater treatment through bioremediation approach
15. Sustainable wastewater treatment through micro-algae and other biotic community for bioenergy production
16. Role of bioremediation of wastewater in sustainable development goals and circular economy
17. Role of plants as bioindicators of water pollution and treatment of water contaminations
18. Role of bryophytes as biomonitors and bioindicators of water pollution and as bioremediation tools
19. Application of modern tools for the real time monitoring of bioremediation approach and its advantages
20. Case studies on bioremediation of domestic/industrial wastewater for the elimination of heavy metals/emerging water contaminants/pesticides/ microplastics etc.
21. Case studies on bioenergy production and wastewater treatment.
22. Case study on the biopolymer production through wastewater treatment using biotechnology
23. Feasibility of reuse of treated wastewater through bioremediation approach for domestic or industrial applications
24. Industrial scope of recovered valuable resources, types and application: Technical and Economic feasibilities”.
25. Future perspectives of wastewater treatment.
26. Bioremediation for emerging organic pollutants (pesticides, dyes etc): Present and Future
27. Role of biotechnology in the recovery of nutrients from wastewater
- No. of pages: 400
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: November 1, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443273766
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Arun Lal Srivastav
Dr. Arun Lal Srivastav is an Associate Professor at Chitkara University,
Himachal Pradesh (India). He received PhD from the Indian Institute of
Technology (BHU), Varanasi, India. Also, he has done postdoctoral research at
National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan. He is currently involved in teaching
environmental science, waste management, environmental engineering, disaster
management, and design thinking to undergraduate engineering students. His
research interests include water quality surveillance, climate change, river ecosystem,
soil health maintenance, engineering education, phytoremediation, and waste
management. He has published 86 SCI/SCOPUS research publications in different
prestigious journals, books, and conferences. He has edited many books with
prestigious publishers including Elsevier, Springer, Nova, IGI Global, and Wiley.
Moreover, he is also working on four government-sponsored projects (worth
approximately 16 million INR) on phytoremediation, adsorption, capacity building,
organic farming, leachate treatment, agro-waste management, and so on.
Also, 12 Indian patents have been granted in his credit on multidisciplinary
topics.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Chitkara University, Himachal Pradesh, IndiaIZ
Inga Zinicovscaia
Dr. Inga Zinicovscaia is working as Head of the Sector in the Frank Laboratory of Neutron Physics of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia. She has obtained her Doctor of Science from Moldova State University, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova on study of the impact of some metals determined by neutron activation analysis on the quality of the environment. Her research interests include water and soil remediation, assessment of the air quality, nanotoxicology, waste management, evaluation of food quality and radioecology. She has published 176 research papers in prestigious ISI journals (Elsevier, Springer, IWA, Taylor & Francis etc.) as well as several book chapters and monography on wastewater bioremediation. She is also section editor in several journals and project supervisor of more than 10 projects between Joint Institute for Nuclear Research and member states on different environmental subjects.
Affiliations and expertise
Horia Hulubei National Institute for R&D in Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Dubna, Russia.MS
Maulin P. Shah
Dr. Maulin P. Shah is Chief Scientist and Head of the Industrial Waste Water Research Lab, Division of Applied and Environmental Microbiology Lab at Enviro Technology Ltd., Ankleshwar, Gujarat, India. His work focuses on the impact of industrial pollution on the microbial diversity of wastewater following cultivation-dependent and cultivation-independent analysis. His major work involves isolation, screening, identification, and genetically engineering high-impact microbes for the degradation of hazardous materials. His research interests include biological wastewater treatment, environmental microbiology, biodegradation, bioremediation, and phytoremediation of environmental pollutants from industrial wastewaters.
Affiliations and expertise
Chief Scientist and Head, Industrial Waste Water Research Lab, Division of Applied and Environmental Microbiology Lab at Enviro Technology Ltd., Ankleshwar, Gujarat, IndiaLC
Liliana Cepoi
Liliana Cepoi is a specialist in the biotechnology of microalgae and cyanobacteria. Her scientific area of interest is oxidative stress and its potential application as a tool in biotechnology, including in the biotechnologies for remediating water contaminated with heavy metals. She studies the bioaccumulation of various pollutants in iterative processes involving cyanobacteria from the genera Arthrospira and Nostoc. She is the author of 11 chapters in books edited by prestigious scientific publishers (Elsevier, Springer, Wales) and a co-editor of a book in the field of contaminated water bioremediation. She is author and co-author of numerous articles in WoS and Scopus indexed scientific journals and over 30 invention patents, with the innovative subject matter being various strain of microorganisms of biotechnological interest, their cultivation processes, and methods for biomass quality control. She also supervises doctoral students in biotechnology and ecology.
Affiliations and expertise
Technical University of Moldova, Moldova