Environmental Waste Management

Herausgeber: Chandra, Ram

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book promotes the proper management and utilization of industrial waste, delivering in-depth, state-of-the-art information on the physicochemical properties, chemical composition, and environmental risks associated with industrial waste from the sugar, pulp and paper, tanning, distilling, textile, petroleum hydrocarbon, and agrochemical sectors. Featuring contributions from environmental microbiology and biotechnology experts from various universities, national research laboratories, and industries, the text provides students, scientists, and researchers of biotechnology, microbiology, biochemistry, and molecular biology with a specialized collection of cutting-edge industrial waste management and pollutant monitoring techniques.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 620
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 257mm x 180mm x 41mm
• Gewicht: 1497g
• ISBN-13: 9781498724746
• ISBN-10: 1498724744
• Artikelnr.: 43031277

Autorenporträt

Ram Chandra is currently Head and Senior Principal Scientist in the Environmental Microbiology Division, Indian Institute of Toxicology Research (IITR), Lucknow. He earned his B.Sc (Hons) and M.Sc from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India; started his career as scientist B at the Industrial Toxicology Research Centre, Lucknow, India; and subsequently earned his Ph.D. He then became scientist F at IITR, followed by professor and head of the Department of Environmental Microbiology, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar Central University, Lucknow, India. Widely published and highly decorated, Dr. Chandra is a member of the American Society for Microbiology; life member of the National Academy of Sciences, India; and a Fellow of the Academy of Environmental Biology, Association of Microbiologists of India, and Biotech Research Society, India. He has authored one book and edited two more books from reputed publishers.

Inhaltsangabe

Use of PMDE with Sugar Industries Pressmud for Composting: A Green
Technology for Safe Disposal in the Environment. Advances in the Treatment
of Pulp and Paper Mill Wastewater. Role of Cyanobacteria for Biodegradation
of Agrochemical Waste. Biomedical Waste: Its Effects and Safe Disposal.
Biological Nitrogen Removal in Wastewater Treatment. Bioconversion of
Industrial CO2 Emissions into Utilizable Products. Role of Bioreactor for
Industrial Wastewater Treatment. Microbial Genomics and Bioremediation of
Industrial Wastewater. Persistent Organic Pollutants and Bacterial
Communities Present during the Treatment of Tannery Wastewater. Microbial
Degradation of Lignocellulosic Waste and Its Metabolic Products. Advanced
Oxidative Pretreatment of Complex Effluents for Biodegradability
Enhancement and Color Reduction. Role of Microbes in Plastic Degradation.
Biodegradation of Chemical Pollutants of Tannery Wastewater. Microbial
Degradation Mechanism of Textile Dye and Its Metabolic Pathway for
Environmental Safety. Isolation of Pure DNA for Metagenomic Study from
Industrial Polluted Site: A New Approach for Monitoring of Microbial
Community and Pollutants. Biotransformation and Biodegradation of
Organophosphates and Organohalides. Petroleum Hydrocarbon Stress Management
in Soil Using Microorganisms and Their Products. Recent Advances in the
Expression and Regulation of Plant Metallothioneins for Metal Homeostasis
and Tolerance.