Removal of Emerging Contaminants Through Microbial Processes

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Aspects of Microbial Biofilms in Water Treatment

   • Riddha Dey, Richa Raghuwanshi

   Pages 1-21

3. New Bioremediation Technologies to Remove Heavy Metals and Radionuclides

   • Shubhalakshmi Sengupta, Uttariya Roy, Shamik Chowdhary, Papita Das

   Pages 23-45

4. Removal of Heavy Metals Using Bentonite Clay and Inorganic Coagulants

   • Amit K. Thakur, Rahul Kumar, Pranava Chaudhari, Ravi Shankar

   Pages 47-69

5. Advanced Oxidation Processes for Wastewater Remediation: An Overview

   • Samreen Heena Khan, Virendra Kumar Yadav

   Pages 71-93

6. Rhizoremediation of Heavy Metal- and Xenobiotic-Contaminated Soil: An Eco-Friendly Approach

   • Pramila Verma, Seema Rawat

   Pages 95-113

7. Biotreatment of High-Salinity Wastewater: Current Methods and Future Directions

   • Yiyi Zhao, Xuming Zhuang, Shakeel Ahmad, Shihwu Sung, Shou-Qing Ni

   Pages 115-131

8. Facing Lethal Impacts of Industrialization via Green and Sustainable Microbial Removal of Hazardous Pollutants and Nanobioremediation

   • Basma A. Omran

   Pages 133-160

9. Wastewater Treatment Techniques: An Introduction

   • Mukesh Meena, Priyankaraj Sonigra, Garima Yadav, Tansukh Barupal

   Pages 161-182

10. New Trends in Removing Heavy Metals from Industrial Wastewater Through Microbes

    • Mohammad Haris, Adnan Shakeel, Touseef Hussain, Gufran Ahmad, Moh. Sajid Ansari, Abrar Ahmad Khan

    Pages 183-205

11. Biological Wastewater Treatment Technology: Advancement and Drawback

    • Ifra Zoomi, Harbans Kaur Kehri, Ovaid Akhtar, Dheeraj Pandey, Uma Singh, Kanhaiya Lal Chaudhary et al.

    Pages 207-216

12. Role of Extremophiles and Extremophilic Proteins in Industrial Waste Treatment

    • Sharmistha Tapadar, Deeksha Tripathi, Saurabh Pandey, Khyati Goswami, Arunima Bhattacharjee, Kunwali Das et al.

    Pages 217-235

13. Biosorption of Carcinogenic Heavy Metals by Bacteria: Role and Mechanism

    • Ravi Chauhan, Hardi Patel, Seema Rawat

    Pages 237-263

14. The Interest in Nanotechnology: A Step Towards Bioremediation

    • Komal Agrawal, Pradeep Verma

    Pages 265-282

15. Sustainable Phycoremediation of Xenobiotics Polluted Water

    • Nour Sh. El-Gendy, Hussein N. Nassar, Khaled A. El-Tarabily, Synan F. AbuQamar

    Pages 283-310

16. Fundamentals of Biosensor Application in Environmental Pollutant Monitoring

    • Vinay Patel, Rishi Pramod, Namita Khanna, Prajakta Pawar, Abhilasha Singh Mathuriya, Soumya Pandit

    Pages 311-329

17. Sustainable Recovery of Resources from Industrial Wastewater: Trends in Biotechnology and Allied Industries

    • Muthusivaramapandian Muthuraj, Biswanath Bhunia, Abhijit Chatterjee

    Pages 331-357

18. Accumulation and Detoxification of Metals by Plants and Microbes

    • Soma Nag, Swarup Biswas

    Pages 359-372

19. Enzymatic Degradation of Industrial Wastewater Pollutants

    • Sama A. Al-Mutwalli, Seyda Korkut, Muhammet Samet Kilic, Derya Y. Imer

    Pages 373-398

20. Exploring the Use of Biomixtures for the Removal of Structurally Different Pesticides

    • J. M. Saez, A. L. Bigliardo, E. E. Raimondo, G. E. Briceño, M. A. Polti, C. S. Benimeli

    Pages 399-417

The abundance of organic pollutants found in wastewater affect urban surface waters. Traditional wastewater management technologies focus on the removal of suspended solids, nutrients and bacteria, however, new pollutants such as synthetic or naturally occurring chemicals are often not monitored in the environment despite having the potential to enter the environment and cause adverse ecological and human health effects. Collectively referred to as "emerging contaminants," they are mostly derived from domestic activities and occur in trace concentrations ranging from pico to micrograms per liter. Environmental contaminants are resistant to conventional wastewater treatment processes and most of them remain unaffected, causing contamination of receiving water. This in turn leads to the need for advanced wastewater treatment processes capable of removing environmental contaminants to ensure safe fresh water sources. 

This book provides an up-to-date overview of the current bioremediation strategies, including their limitations, challenges and their potential application to remove environmental pollutants. It also introduces the latest trends and advances in environmental bioremediation, and presents the state-of-the-art in biological and chemical wastewater treatment processes. As such, it will appeal to researchers and policy-makers, as well as undergraduate and graduate environmental sciences students.

• Biodegradation
• Detoxification
• Advanced Oxidation Processes
• Wastewater Treatment
• Synthetic Dyes
• Phytoremediation
• Nanotechnology
• Biofilms
• water quality and water pollution
• industrial pollution prevention

• Division of Applied & Environmental Microbiology, Environmental Microbiology Lab, Bharuch, India

  Maulin P Shah

Maulin P. Shah is currently the Chief Scientist & Head of the Industrial Waste Water Research Lab, Division of Applied and Environmental Microbiology Lab at Enviro Technology Ltd., India. His work involves areas ranging from applied microbiology, environmental biotechnology, bioremediation, and industrial liquid waste management to solid state fermentation, as well as assessment of the impact of industrial pollution on microbial diversity of wastewater. He has edited 25 books in the area of wastewater microbiology

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