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Bioremediation using weeds

  • Discusses the utilization of weeds as bioresource and its management
  • Highlights the amelioration of soil in waste management sites
  • Focuses on the significance of bioremediation using weeds

Part of the book series: Energy, Environment, and Sustainability (ENENSU)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
  2. General Weed Diversity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Diversity, Distribution, and Status of Weed Species of Northwest Himalaya

      • Zishan Ahmad Wani, Shreekar Pant, Virbala Sharma
      Pages 3-34
  3. Bioremediation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 35-35
    2. Aquatic Weeds: A Potential Pollutant Removing Agent from Wastewater and Polluted Soil and Valuable Biofuel Feedstock

      • Sanjeet Mehariya, Prasun Kumar, Tiziana Marino, Patrizia Casella, Angela Iovine, Pradeep Verma et al.
      Pages 59-77
    3. Parthenium hysterophorus: Weed to Value

      • Supriya Ratnaparkhe, Milind B. Ratnaparkhe
      Pages 79-96
  4. Weed Utilization

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-97
    2. Seaweed Cultivation and Its Biobusiness Status Around the World

      • Ranju Kumari Rathour, Sanjeev Mehta, Pooja Sharma, Ravi Kant Bhatia, Arvind Kumar Bhatt
      Pages 151-182
    3. Utilization of Weed Plants for Biochemicals and Bioactive Compounds Production

      • Vijay Kumar, Virender Kumar, Ranjit G. Gurav, Yung-Hun Yang, Shashi Kant Bhatia
      Pages 183-206
    4. Utilization of Invasive Weed Biomass for Biochar Production and Its Application in Agriculture and Environmental Clean-up

      • Ranjit G. Gurav, Shashi Kant Bhatia, Umesh B. Jagtap, Yung-Hun Yang, Yong-Keun Choi, Jingchun Tang et al.
      Pages 207-224
    5. Weed Biomass-Based Nanoparticles and Their Applications

      • Umesh B. Jagtap, Ranjit G. Gurav
      Pages 225-244

About this book

In this monograph, the core elements of multidisciplinary bioremediation practices are addressed and environmental pollutants which can be effectively remediated using weeds is focused upon. Weeds plants can easily grow in waste dumping sites with their rapidly colonizing ability. The contents include recent results in bioremediation and focuses on the current trend of introduction of potentials of weeds in bioremediation practice. This volume will be a useful guide for researchers, academics and scientists.


Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Chemical Sciences, Central University of Haryana, Mahendragarh, India

    Deepak Pant

  • Department of Biological Engineering, Konkuk University, Seoul, Korea (Republic of)

    Shashi Kant Bhatia

  • Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, Korea (Republic of)

    Anil K. Patel

  • Department of Environmental Sciences, Central University of Himachal Pradesh, Dharamshala, India

    Anand Giri

About the editors

Prof. Deepak Pant is currently Dean, School of Basic Sciences, Central University of Haryana, India. He is also a Visiting Professor of Environmental and Chemical Science, Indira Gandhi Technological and Medical Sciences University, India and Professor on lien, Department of Environmental Science, Central University of Himachal Pradesh, India. Prof. Pant is the recipient of Silver Jubilee Research Fellowship award (2003) by Kumaun University, India, UCOST Young Scientist Award 2009, INSA visiting fellow 2010, DST-SERC visiting Fellow 2010, DST-SERC Young Scientist Award 2011 and Visitor award 2017 by Hon’ble President of India for his research activities. He was conferred the 8th National Award for Technology Innovation by the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers, Government of IndiaProf. Pant has 5 patents in the area of waste management by green techniques and has authored 13 books, 50 research papersin various national and international journals. He has guided 6 Ph.D. scholars and 150 M.Sc. dissertations.

Dr. Anil Kumar Patel is a Research Professor in the Department of Nanobiotechnology at Korea University, Republic of Korea. His current research focus is carbon capturing and development of microalgal bioprocess using mixotrophic cultivation strategy for effective remediation of gaseous and aqueous industrial wastes and their biochemical conversion into astaxanthin as well as microbial lipids for biodiesel. He has been visiting researcher at the EPFL, Switzerland (2008) and had postdoctoral trainings in Bioprocess Engineering at the Institute Pascal, France (2009-2013), and University of Hawaii at Manoa, United States (2017). He also worked as research professor at HKBU University, Hong Kong (2018) and as research team of Bioenergy project at Indian Oil Corp. Ltd, R&D center India for the development of lignocellulosic ethanol and zero waste technology(2013-2016). He has a current H-index 26 and over 3600 citations. He has over 82 publications, which include 4 patents, 40 original and review articles, 18 book chapters and 2 conference proceedings. He is the recipient of IBA-IFIBiop Young Scientist award at Lille, France in the year 2013 and DBT- Energy Bioscience Overseas Fellowship from the Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India (2013). He has delivered several invited lectures, chaired and coordinated scientific sessions and presented research papers in international conferences. 

Dr. Shashi Kant Bhatia is an Associate Professor at the Department of Biological Engineering, Konkuk University, South Korea. Dr. Bhatia has published more than 90 research/review articles on industrial biotechnology, bioenergy production, biomaterial, biotransformation, microbial fermentation, and enzyme technology in international scientific peer reviewed journals and holds four international patents. He did his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Biotechnology from Himachal Pradesh University, India. Dr. Bhatia has worked as a Brain Pool Post Doc Fellow at Konkuk University (2014-2016), South Korea. His research area includes conversion of biowastes into bioenergy, biochemicals and biomaterials. He is also an editorial board member of journals of national and international repute. 

Anand Giri is currently working as Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) India Research Fellow in the Department of Environmental Sciences at Central University of Himachal Pradesh, India. He pursued his M.Sc. in Environmental Science from G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, India and B.Sc. degree from Kumaun University Nainital, Uttarakhand in year of 2010. He was awarded the Junior Research Fellowship by Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences, Department of Atomic Energy in the year of 2014 and Senior Research Fellowship by CSIR, Government of India in 2018. He has extensive experience in R&D management and consultancy in the field of Environmental Impact Assessment and Management.  He has published multiple research papers in national and international journals.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Bioremediation using weeds

  • Editors: Deepak Pant, Shashi Kant Bhatia, Anil K. Patel, Anand Giri

  • Series Title: Energy, Environment, and Sustainability

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-6552-0

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Energy, Energy (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-33-6551-3Published: 23 February 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-33-6554-4Published: 24 February 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-33-6552-0Published: 22 February 2021

  • Series ISSN: 2522-8366

  • Series E-ISSN: 2522-8374

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXI, 244

  • Number of Illustrations: 21 b/w illustrations, 29 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Fossil Fuels (incl. Carbon Capture), Agriculture, Waste Management/Waste Technology

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