This book explores microbial intervention in wastewater treatment for resource recovery, bioenergy production, and environmental sustainability. It discusses the fate of pollutants, challenges in existing treatment strategies, and the need for innovation. Case studies illustrate wastewater-specific treatment strategies for bioenergy and resource recovery at different scales. The book emphasizes the use of wastewater for resource recovery through sequestration or biotransformation and highlights tailormade consortium development for sludge-free treatment. It also covers sustainable approaches like microbial biofilm reactors, microbial fuel cells and membrane technology for wastewater treatment. It also deals with nanotechnology in combination with microbial technology for handling refractory components in wastewater that could not be handled by microbes alone. This book provides insights into microbial technology for a clean environment and bioenergy production through a reduce, recover, and reuse approach.

This valuable resource offers practical information that can be applied by engineers, researchers, and undergraduate and graduate students, as well as business professionals in the bioenergy field, aiding them in the implementation of renewable energy projects.

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Prof Shaon Ray Chaudhuri received her PhD from Calcutta University (2001) in Molecular Biology, received DBT Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Life Sciences in 2001, DST Fast Track Scientist award in 2003. She started working as Lecturer at West Bengal University of Technology (renamed Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, West Bengal) from November 2004 and moved to Tripura Central University in September 2015. She works on Microbial Technology, with 5 technologies transferred, 4 awarded international patents, 7 granted Indian patents to her credit. Twelve scholars have graduated from her laboratory with PhD degrees. Fellow of National Academy of Science India and West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology, she is winner of the Climate Launch Pad Odisha region 2019; recipient of the Visitor's Award in Technology Category 2019 as well as NASI-Reliance Industries Platinum Jubilee Award for application oriented innovations in Biological Sciences 2020 for the different wastewater treatment technologies developed by her. She has 65 papers and 22 book chapters to her credit.