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Emerging Trends and Advances in Microbial Electrochemical Technologies
Hypothesis, Design, Operation, and Applications
- 1st Edition - August 16, 2024
- Editors: Asheesh Kumar Yadav, Pratiksha Srivastava, Md Tabish Noori, Yifeng Zhang
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 5 5 5 7 - 4
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 5 9 3 0 - 5
Emerging Trends and Advances in Microbial Electrochemical Technologies: Hypothesis, Design, Operation and Applications provides a lab to field approach involved in the progress… Read more
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Request a sales quoteEmerging Trends and Advances in Microbial Electrochemical Technologies: Hypothesis, Design, Operation and Applications provides a lab to field approach involved in the progress of microbial electrochemical technologies. Focusing on recent trends and advances in this rapidly growing field, the book provides comprehensive information on the basics while also explaining new approaches to microbial electrochemical technologies for environmental applications, including wastewater and waste treatment, bioremediation of contaminated sites, resource recovery, usable electricity generation, greenhouse gas emissions reduction and bio-sensing.
Explaining current trends and advances in practice, and elaborating on realistic technological areas and commercialization possibilities and large-scale applications, this book provides new insights into the design of microbial electrochemical technologies and future directions.
- Introduces advanced applications, design, processes, and materials in microbial electrochemical technologies
- Explores how to translate research into real-world applications
- Provides a roadmap for the specific direction of realistic research, including commercialization possibilities
Environmental Engineers, Biotechnologists, Chemical Engineers, Material Scientists, Microbiologists, Wastewater Technologists, Environmental Treatment Plant Operators
Section 1. Fundamentals and new knowledge in the field of METs
1. Micobial Electrochemcial Technology: Historical development, principles and applications, technological readiness level
2. Emerging wastewater treatment technologies based on the integration of biological and bioelectrochemical processes
3. Bioelectrochemical characterization techniques for enhanced understanding of METs
4. Electron Transition and Losses in Bioelectrochemical System Towards CO2 Sequestration
5. Life cycle analysis and life cycle cost analysis in METs to the evaluate feasibility of the device to fit into the circular economy concept
Section 2. Current and emerging applications of Microbial Electrochemical Technology (MET)
6. Nutrient Recovery in Bioelectrochemical systems
7. Bioelectrochemical sensors for detecting recalcitrant and toxic organic pollutants
8. Purple bacteria and their possible application in Microbial Electrochemical Technologies for environmental treatment applications and resource recovery
9. Robust application of microbial electrochemical technology coupled with constructed wetlands
Section 3. Current and new trends in the electrochemical synthesis using Microbial Electrochemical Technology
10. Biogas upgradation using integrated anaerobic digestion and microbial electrochemical technologies
11. Gas electro-fermentation in METs.
12. Recent Advancements in Photocatalytic Materials for Applications in Photo-Assisted Microbial Electrosynthesis
13. Physiochemical and biological techniques in wastewater treatment with an emphasis on algal microbial fuel cell
Section 4. Current and emerging new design, materials and operating conditions in Microbial electrochemical Technology
14. An overview of current and emerging design of Microbial electrochemical Technology
15. Fluidized and fixed granular beds of activated carbon as electrodes in METs
16. Nanomaterials to facilitate extracellular electron transfer in microbial electrochemical systems
17. An overview of different separators/membranes used in METs
18. MOFs and other emergent cathode catalysts in METs
19. Functional materials coated gas diffusion electrodes for enhanced value-added product recovery in MECs
20. E-Waste-derived materials for resource recovery and wastewater treatment applications
Section 5. Current and emerging trends in wastewater treatment, bioremediation, biosensing and resource recovery using Microbial Electrochemical Technology
21. Osmotic microbial fuel cell (OMFC) as an energy-self-sufficient wastewater treatment
22. Algae-powered versatile microbial fuel cells for energy and resource recovery from different waste streams.
23. Application of bioelectrochemical coagulation process for leachate treatment
24. Electrochemical approaches with novel electrodes to treat emerging contaminants in water and water streams
Section 6. Updates in scale-up of METs and commercialization
25. Scale-up challenges in METs for commercial applications
26. Real-life Applications of Sediment Microbial Fuel Cell (SMFC) for power generation to operate aquaculture ponds
27. Full-scale commercial applications of Plant-MFCs for producing electricity
28. Electrobioremediation of contaminated sediments
- No. of pages: 925
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: August 16, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443155574
- eBook ISBN: 9780443159305
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Asheesh Kumar Yadav
Asheesh Kumar Yadav is a Principal Scientist and Associate Professor at CSIR-Institute of Minerals and Materials Technology, Bhubaneswar, India. He completed his doctoral study at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and postdoctoral studies at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA. Currently, he is working as Marie Curie Fellow at Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain. He is the pioneer of constructed wetlands coupled microbial Electrochemical technology (CW-MET) for energy production, wastewater treatment, and other environmental applications. He received numerous awards like Marie Curie Fellowship; Indo-American Research Professorship (American Society of Microbiology); Four times winner of Erasmus Mundus Scholar Awards for teaching and research in universities in Germany, Poland, Sweden, Portugal; Winner of VLIR scholarships of Belgium; and Nuffic fellowship of the Netherlands. Besides this, He got an adjunct faculty position at the University of Tasmania, Australia. He is interested in developing low-cost energy generating and saving wastewater treatment systems with capabilities of resource recovery. Moreover, he is invested in developing circularity and sustainability in water and wastewater treatment systems.
Affiliations and expertise
Principal Scientist and Associate Professor, CSIR-Institute of Minerals and Materials Technology, Bhubaneswar, IndiaPS
Pratiksha Srivastava
Dr Pratiksha Srivastava is currently a Postdoctoral fellow at Rey Juan Carlos University, Madrid, Spain. She did her Ph.D. studies at the University of Tasmania, Australia. She has a large number of publications in the domain METs. Her main focus is on high-rate wastewater treatment using METs. She is among the pioneer who developed electrode-dependent anaerobic ammonium oxidation in Constructed wetlands coupled with microbial electrochemical technology. The work has gained considerable attention among scientists. Based on her significant contribution to sustainability research, she received the prestigious Green Talent award from the German Federal Ministry in 2017. She is also a recipient of the Nuffic fellowship, the Netherlands, and many other competitive grants and national and international levels.
Affiliations and expertise
Mckenzie Research Fellow, Chemical Engineering Department, The University of Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaMN
Md Tabish Noori
Dr Md Tabish Noori is Research Professor (Brain Pool Fellow), Kyung Hee University, South Korea. He is graduated with a Doctoral degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India. He is very much active in the research and development of cost-efficient electrode materials and polymeric separators for pilot scale microbial Microbial Electrochemical Technologies (METs), generating value-added chemicals and fuels from real waste streams, development of efficient electrode materials for METs and biosensors (particularly to diagnose Tuberculosis), highly porous electrode materials development for METs to generate bio-alcohols, fatty acids and methane from CO2. He received the prestigious SRISTI Gandhian Young Technological Innovation award from the President of India for his research contribution. He did multiple postdoctoral studies from Universidad De Alcala De Henares, Spain (Marie Sklodowska Curie fellow), Kyung Hee University, South Korea (Brain Korea 21 Plus postdoctoral fellow), and Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India. He applied for an Indian Patent and has published around 36 research articles in the peer review international journals (e.g., Biotechnology Advances, Bioresource Technology, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, RSC Sustainable Energy, Fuels, Electrochimica Acta, etc.) and 4 book chapters. He presented his works in several national and international scientific congresses held in India, Germany, Hong Kong, The United States, and South Korea.
Affiliations and expertise
UKRI Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, United KingdonYZ
Yifeng Zhang
Dr Yifeng Zhang is currently working as an Associate Professor at the Department of Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Denmark (DTU). He is also serving as Associate Editor at several prestigious journals, including Water Research, Science of the Total Environment, and Frontiers in Microbiology. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from DTU in 2012. His major research interests are microbial electrochemical technology and biotechnology-based process development to support the 2nd, 6th, 7th, 12th, and 13th UN Sustainable Development Goals through sustainable water treatment, resource recovery, CO2 capture and utilization, biosynthesis, and environmental bioremediation & monitoring. His research has been highly innovative and contributed considerably to improving the fundamental understanding of microbial electrochemistry and developing cutting-edge, efficient, and economic-affordable technical solutions in the Water-Food-Energy-Climate nexus for sustainable development and green transition. This way, the wastewaters and greenhouse gases (e.g., CO2) are recovered and upcycled in the form of valuable bioproducts, which otherwise are treated as pollutants undergoing energy and carbon-intensive treatment processes. His research has been well documented in 99 SCI publications (19 as first author and 65 as the corresponding author), 2 patents, 3 book chapters, and ≥30 conference contributions. Most of the SCI publications are in top journals in the field, such as Energy & Environmental Science, Trends in Biotechnology, Environmental Science & Technology, and Water Research. According to Google Scholar, his works have been cited over 4100 times and with an H index of 36. Since 2012, He has been successfully attracting over 4 M Euro international and national research fundings. Especially in 2018, he received Carlsberg Foundation Distinguished Fellowships, which are given to talented young scientists to establish their research group. He was shortlisted and interviewed for the Young Investigator Program funded by Villum Foundation in the same year. In 2020, he was selected as top 50 among global competitions for The Elsevier Foundation-ISC3 Green & Sustainable Chemistry Challenge Award. He recently received Honorable Mentions from the James J. Morgan Award 2022 for Great Achievements in Environmental Science & Technology
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Department of Environmental and Resource Engineering, Technical University of DenmarkRead Emerging Trends and Advances in Microbial Electrochemical Technologies on ScienceDirect