Romeela Mohee & Ackmez Mudhoo 
Bioremediation and Sustainability [EPUB ebook] 
Research and Applications

Bioremediation and Sustainability is an up-to-date and comprehensive treatment of research and applications for some of the most important low-cost, ‘green, ‘ emerging technologies in chemical and environmental engineering

Sustainable development requires the development and promotion of environmental management and a constant search for green technologies to treat a wide range of aquatic and terrestrial habitats contaminated by increasing anthropogenic activities with the main sources of contaminants being the chemical industries. Bioremediation is a technique that uses living organisms in order to degrade or transform contaminants into their less toxic forms. It is based on the existence of microorganisms with the capacity to attack the compounds on the enzymatic level.

Bioremediation is an increasingly popular low-cost alternative to conventional methods for treating wastes and contaminated media with the possibility to degrade these contaminants using natural microbial activity mediated by different consortia of microbes. Over the last few years, the scientific literature has revealed the progressive emergence of various bioremediation techniques. Bioremediation and Sustainability presents an up-to-date and comprehensive collection of chapters prepared in bioremediation technology research and applications.

The strategies covered in this volume can be applied in situ or ex situ, depending on the site in which they will be applied. In situ is the treatment done in the site of the contamination, and ex situ involves the removal of soil or water to subsequent treatment. There is a wide variety of techniques that have been developed in the past and are covered in this volume, such as natural attenuation, bioaugmentation, biostimulation, biosorption, composting, phytoremediation, rhizoremediation, and bioleaching.

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Dedications

Preface

Acknowledgements

Editor

List of Contributors

Chapter 1. Elements of Sustainability and Bioremediation

Ackmez Mudhoo and Romeela Mohee

Chapter 2. Natural Attenuation

R. Ryan Dupont

Chapter 3. Anaerobic Digestion Processes

Steven I. Safferman, Dana M. Kirk Louis L. Faivor, Wei
Wu-Haan

Chapter 4. Biosurfactants: Synthesis, Properties and
Applications in Environmental Bioremediation

Ramkrishna Sen, Ackmez Mudhoo and Gunaseelan, D.

Chapter 5. Phytoremediation: An Efficient Approach for
Bioremediation of Organic and Metallic Ions Pollutants

Divya Gupta, Lalit Kumar Singh, Ashish Deep Gupta and Vikash
Babu

Chapter 6. Bioleaching

Leo G. Leduc and Garry D. Ferroni

Chapter 7. Biosorption of Heavy Metals – New
Perspectives

Teresa Taveres and Hugo Figueiredo

Chapter 8. Biofiltration: Essentials, Research and
Applications

Smita Raghuvanshi, Subhajit Majumder and Suresh Gupta

Chapter 9. Modeling and Implementation of Sustainable
Remediation Based on Bioventing

Hillel Rubin, Eran Rubin, and Holger Schüttrumpf

Chapter 10. Bioremediation of Xenobiotics

Kamal Saxena, Gajendra Kumar Aseri, Ashish Deep Gupta and Vikash
Babu

Index

Mengenai Pengarang

Romeela Mohee, Ph D, is Professor of Environmental Engineering in
the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering at the
University of Mauritius. She obtained her Ph D at the University of
Mauritius in 1998, and her primary research interests are in waste
containment, solid waste management and treatment by anaerobic
digestion and composting, beneficial reuse of waste materials, and
heat and mass transfer modeling. An eminent international
consultant in environmental science and energy issues, Dr. Mohee
has authored or contributed to over 70 international publications
on waste biotreatment, including four books and numerous conference
papers and consultancy reports.

Ackmez Mudhoo, MPhil, is Lecturer in the Department of Chemical
and Environmental Engineering at the University of Mauritius. His
main research interests encompass the design of composting systems,
analysis of composting processes, and the biological treatment of
solid wastes and wastewater. He has dozens of international journal
publications and conference papers to his credit. He is also a peer
reviewer on numerous journals, and is the editor-in-chief for two
international research journals.