Microbial Biotechnology: Integrated Microbial Engineering for B3 – Bioenergy, Bioremediation, and Bioproducts
- 1st Edition - May 15, 2025
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- Editors: Maulin P. Shah, Kiran Bala
- Language: English
This book highlights the latest advancements in microbial biotechnology and its crucial role in promoting sustainable development across three key areas: bioenergy, bi… Read more
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Description
Description
This book highlights the latest advancements in microbial biotechnology and its crucial role in promoting sustainable development across three key areas: bioenergy, bioremediation, and bioproducts.
It emphasizes the potential of microbes as renewable, sustainable resources capable of generating high-value products and acting as efficient alternatives to conventional methods. Key topics included algal, bacterial, and fungal biotechnology, focusing on producing biomass and valuable metabolites through CO2 sequestration, concurrent bioremediation, resource recovery, and environmental sustainability. This book presents cutting-edge information on how integrated microbial engineering can valorize waste while sustainably generating essential resources. Additionally, it explores how microbes can help address critical challenges, such as resource depletion and pollution management, offering solutions for a more sustainable future.
Key features
Key features
- Explores cutting-edge technologies in microbial biotechnology, including the production of high-value products using microbes, such as bacteria, fungi, and algae.
- Elucidates strategies like mycoremediation, microbial degradation, and integrated CO2 sequestration with bioremediation to address pressing environmental challenges.
- Understanding the potential of algae and purple bacteria in waste valorization and circular economy models, including biodiesel production and wastewater treatment.
- Provides comprehensive information on the emerging therapeutic possibilities of microbial systems and their role in disease control.
- Examines the role of microbes in enhancing plant growth as biofertilizers, contributing to sustainable agricultural practices and improved regional water quality through microbial bioremediation.
Readership
Readership
Industry professionals, and researchers working in wastewater management and microbial remediation, CO2 capture, and bio-products characterization; applied microbiologists, environmental biotechnologists, environmental engineers, and scientists, policy planners from various ministries of environment and water
Table of contents
Table of contents
2. Microbial Fuel Cell: Working and Designing Aspects
3. Environmental risks of plastics pollutants and their mycoremediation strategies
4. Obtaining oil for biodiesel production from dry and wet microalgal material
5. Mycoremediation of organic pollutants in the environment
6. Algal Biorefinery and Circular Economy
7. CO{sub|2} sequestration integrated with bioremediation: Review of potential applications and case studies
8. Role of microbial biofertilizer in plant growth promotion
9. Microbial Production of cellulase and lipase: Mechanisms, optimizations, and industrial applications
10. From Algae to Medicine: Unveiling the Therapeutic Potential of Microalgal Exopolysaccharides
11. Prospect and Challenges of Production of High Value-Added Products Using Purple Bacteria in Integration with Wastewater Treatment
12. Microbial role in degradation and removal of microplastics from aquatic environment
13. Microbial Wastewater Systems to Target Micropollutants in Industrial Effluent
14. Maximizing Resource Valorization through Bioremediation Process Intensification: A Journey from Bench to Pilot Scale
15. Biohydrogen Production with Microbial Coculture and Monoculture
16. Microalgal cultivation in wastewater and biomass valorization for bioproducts promoting circular bioeconomy
17. Exploring Algae and Purple Bacteria: Isolation, Characterization and their Futuristic Greener Technologies
18. Microbial Bioremediation for Improving the Regional Water Quality
19. Harnessing Nature's Potential: Exploring the Possibilities for Disease Therapeutics from Algae
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: May 15, 2025
- Language: English
About the editors
About the editors
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Maulin P. Shah
Dr. Maulin P. Shah is an active researcher and microbial biotechnologist with diverse research interest. His primary interest is the environment, the quality of our living resources and the ways that bacteria can help to manage and degrade toxic wastes and restore environmental health. Consequently, His work has been focused to assess the impact of industrial pollution on microbial diversity of wastewater following cultivation dependant and cultivation independent analysis.
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