
Environmental Metagenomics, Water Quality and Suggested Remediation Measures of Polluted Waters: A Combined Approach
- 1st Edition - March 26, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Authors: Inderjeet Tyagi, Vikas Kumar, Rama Rao Karri
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 3 6 5 9 - 7
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 3 6 6 0 - 3
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Environmental Metagenomics, Water Quality and Suggested Remediation Measures of Polluted Waters: A Combined Approach is a reference handbook for scientists, engineers and early-career researchers seeking guidance in the areas of water quality and remediation studies. The comprehensive book, which includes case studies and applications from a range of contributors in the field, offers an essential resource in the science of water quality assessment.
- Includes a range of applications and case studies in wetland, riverine, drinking, and groundwater metagenomics, along with approaches for the remediation of pollutants from wastewater
- Offers the latest updates on environmental metagenomics and its correlation with water environments, remediation measures, and SDGs
- Provides key contributions from global researchers in the fields of water chemistry, environmental science, engineering, and public health
Part I: Introduction to Environmental Metagenomics, Water Quality and Remediation Measures1. Introduction to Environmental Metagenomics, Water Quality and Remediation Measures: An overview2. Environmental metagenomics and associated functional annotations in polluted ecosystem3. Protocols to e-DNA with special reference to polluted wetlands, riverine ecosystem, groundwater and Drinking water microbiome4. Metagenomics Data mining and storage: Policies, Linkages, and Interlinkages5. Impact toxic pollutants including heavy metals, organic and anthropogenic impurities on the water quality and their permissible limits6. Detailed overview of techniques used across the globe for the remediation of pollutants from polluted water7. Health impacts of pathogens, metal, organic and anthropogenic pollutants on human health and prevailing fauna
Part II: Water Quality and Environmental Metagenomics of Polluted waters8. Metagenomics* and limnological studies of sewage fed aquaculture ponds across the globe9. Metagenomics* and heavy metal speciation studies of economically important Ramsar sites10. Metagenomics* and heavy metal speciation studies of drinking water across the globe11. Metagenomics*, Limnological and heavy metal speciation studies of groundwater12. Metagenomics* and limnological studies of riverine ecosystem13. Metagenomics*, Limnological and heavy metal speciation of STPS/ETPs/WWTPs*Metagenomics covering bacterial, eukaryotic and Antibiotic (ARGs) or Antimicrobial Resistance Genes (AMRs)
Part III: Case Studies
Part IV: Sustainable Technologies in pollutants remediation and Environmental Metagenomics14. Biochars as low-cost alternative materials for remediation of pollutants15. Constructed wetland as sustainable alternative for wastewater treatment16. Fecal matter sensing and remediation using combined wastewater treatment and sensing approach17. Antibacterial agents for the remediation of pathogenic diversity18. Application of nanomaterials loaded activated carbon as possible solution for remediation of pollutants Chapter 19: Hydrothermally treated low-cost material for remediation of toxic metal and organic impurities20. Monitoring of microbes and possible remediation through genetically engineered microbes21. Green technologies as possible remediating approach for wastewater treatment
- Edition: 1
- Published: March 26, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
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Inderjeet Tyagi
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Vikas Kumar
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Rama Rao Karri
Dr. Rama Rao Karri is a Professor (Sr. Asst) in the Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Brunei, Brunei Darussalam. He has PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi and a Masters from IIT Kanpur in Chemical Engineering. He has worked as a Post-Doctoral research fellow at NUS, Singapore, for about six years and has over 20 years of working experience in Academics, Industry, and Research. He has experience working in multidisciplinary fields and has expertise in various evolutionary optimization techniques and process modelling. As of 01 Nov 2024, he has published 260 research articles in reputed journals, book chapters, and conference proceedings with a combined Impact factor of 981.48 and has an h-index of 48 (Scopus-citations: 6600+) and 50 (Google Scholar-citations: 7700+). Among 145 journal publications, 123 articles (85%) published are in Q1 with an average impact factor of 9. He is an editorial board member in 10 renowned journals and a peer-review member for more than 100 reputed journals and has peer-reviewed more than 478 articles. Also, he handled 200 articles as an editor. He also has the distinction of being listed in the top 2% of the world’s most influential scientists in the area of environmental sciences and chemicals for the Years 2021, 2022, 2023 & 2024. The List of the Top 2% of Scientists in the World compiled and published by Stanford University is based on their international scientific publications, the number of scientific citations for research, and participation in the review and editing of scientific research. He held a position as Editor-in-Chief (2019-2021) in the International Journal of Chemoinformatics and Chemical Engineering, IGI Global, USA. He is also an Associate editor in Scientific Reports, Springer Nature (IF:4.996) & International Journal of Energy and Water Resources (IJEWR), Springer Inc. He is also a Managing Guest editor for Spl. Issues: 1) “Magnetic nanocomposites and emerging applications", in Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering (IF: 7.968), 2) “Novel CoronaVirus (COVID-19) in Environmental Engineering Perspective", in Journal of Environmental Science and Pollution Research (IF: 5.19), Springer. 3) “Nanocomposites for the Sustainable Environment”, in Applied Sciences Journal (IF: 2.679), MDPI. He along with his mentor, Prof. Venkateswarlu is authoring an Elsevier book, “Optimal state estimation for process monitoring, diagnosis, and control”. He is also co-editor and managing editor for 16 Elsevier, 1 Springer and 1 CRC-edited books. Elsevier: 1) Soft computing techniques in solid waste and wastewater management, 2) Green technologies for the defluoridation of water, 3) Environmental and health management of novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), 4) Sustainable Nanotechnology for Environmental Remediation, 5) Pesticides remediation technologies from water and wastewater, 6) COVID-19 and the Sustainable Development Goals, 7) Sustainable materials for sensing and remediation of noxious pollutants, 8) Hybrid Nanomaterials for Sustainable Applications, 9) Wastewater -based epidemiology for the assessment of human exposure to environmental pollutants, (11) Sustainable Remediation Technologies for Emerging Pollutants in Aqueous Environment, 12) Water, The Environment and The Sustainable Development Goals, 13) Environmental Metagenomics, Water Quality and Possible Remediation Measures of Polluted Waters, (14) Health and Environmental Effects of Ambient Air Pollution, (15) Health Effects of Indoor Air Pollution, and (16) Diseases Attributed to Air Pollution. Springer: 1) Industrial wastewater treatment using emerging technologies for sustainability. CRC: 1) Recent Trends in Advanced Oxidation Processes (AOPs) for micro-pollutant removal.