Subsections
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- Introduction to Environmental Biotechnology.
- Biological treatment of waste streams; Resource recovery from wastewaters; e.g., of nitrogen, sulphur, phosphorous and critical metals; Microbial electro-biotechnology (microbial fuel cells and electrolysis cells) for wastewater treatment; Strategies for future sustainability of water sources and water re-use.
- Bioremediation of polluted terrestrial and aquatic environments: current practice and applications; Factors influencing bioremediation; Soil bioremediation approaches such as biostimulation and bioaugmentation; Application of genetically engineered microorganisms for hazardous waste management; Microbial cleaning of gases (biofiltration and bioscrubbing) and acid mine drainage; Phytoremediation: practice and applications, pros and cons; Emerging approaches such as microbial electro-bioremediation; In situ and ex situ bioremediation technologies.
- Biocatalysis and bioelectrocatalysis for cleaner production: Production of value-added products from wastes, agricultural residues and industrial side-streams, e.g., biofuels and bioenergy (such as biohydrogen, biogas, bioethanol, biobutanol, biodiesel and bioelectricity), biosurfactants and bioplastics; Desulphurization of fossil fuels; Bioleaching of metals, Production of biofertilizers and biopesticides; Microbial enhanced oil recovery, Microbial carbon dioxide conversion into chemicals and fuels; Biomass and waste-based biorefineries: state-of-the-art, technical and commercial challenges.
- Environmental monitoring: bio-indicators, biomarkers and biosensors.
- Biocorrosion: mechanisms, prevention and control.
- Public perception and future of the Environmental Biotechnology.
- Gareth M. Evans and Judith C. Furlong, Environmental Biotechnology: theory and application, 2nd edition, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. ISBN: 978-0-470-68418-4
- Lawrence K. Wang, Volodymyr Ivanov, Joo-Hwa Tay, and Yung-Tse Hung, Environmental Biotechnology, Humana Press, USA, 2010. ISBN 978-1-58829-166-0
- Metcalf and Eddy, George Tchobanoglous, H. David Stensel, Ryujiro Tsuchihashi and Franklin L. Burton, Wastewater engineering: Treatment and Resource Recovery, 5th edition, McGraw-Hill Education/Asia, 2014. ISBN-13: 978-1259010798
- Rittmann B. E. and McCarty P. L., Environmental Biotechnology: principles and applications, McGraw-Hill, New York, USA, 2001. ISBN-13: 978-0071181846
- Daniel Vallero, Environmental Biotechnology: A Biosystems Approach, 2nd Edition, Academic Press, 2015. ISBN: 9780124077768
- Kumar Raman, Sharma Anil Kumar, and Ahluwalia Sarabjeet Singh (Eds.), Advances in Environmental Biotechnology, Springer, 2017. ISBN 978-981-10-4041-2
- Ansari, A. A., Gill, S. S., Gill, R., Lanza, G. R. and Newman, L. (Eds.), Phytoremediation: Management of Environmental Contaminants, Volume 1, Springer, 2015. ISBN 978-3-319-10395-2
- J. M. Lema and S. S. Martinez, Innovative Wastewater Treatment & Resource Recovery Technologies: Impacts on Energy, Economy and Environment, IWA Publishing, 2017. ISBN13: 9781780407869
