This book discusses the new and emerging innovative trends in the bioremediation of hazardous pollutants found in wastewater. It also includes the fate of pollutants produced after the treatment process both at the laboratory scale and at the industrial scale. The book intrusively explores the unique biological aspects of the wastewater treatment process and highlights the advantages they provide for engineering applications in the industries. Each chapter covers a different biological-based approach and examines the basic principles, practical applications, recent breakthroughs, and associated limitations. It presents an array of cutting-edge wastewater treatment research and thereafter its applications in treatment, remediation, sensing, and pollution prevention processes. The biological process for application in wastewater research has a significant impact on maintaining the long-term quality, availability, and viability of water. This book elucidates the technologies of biological wastewater treatment processes. The biological processes presented in wastewater treatment processes include (1) bioremediation of wastewater that includes aerobic treatment (oxidation ponds, aeration lagoons, aerobic bioreactors, activated sludge, percolating or trickling filters, biological filters, rotating biological contactors, biological removal of nutrients) and anaerobic treatment (anaerobic bioreactors, anaerobic lagoons); (2) phytoremediation of wastewater that includes constructed wetlands, rhizofiltration, rhizodegradation, phytodegradation, phytoaccumulation, phytotransformation, and hyperaccumulators; and (3) mycoremediation of wastewater. The book describes a broad area of biological processes and water research which are considered key components for advanced water purification. It also includes the desalination technologies that remove, reduce, or neutralize water contaminants that threaten human health and/or ecosystem productivity and integrity.

Elucidates the technologies of biological wastewater treatment processes Describes a broad area of biological processes and water research which are considered key components Includes the fate of pollutants produced after the treatment process both at the laboratory and the industrial scale

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Maulin P. Shah (male) currently has major work which involves isolation, screening, identification, and genetic engineering of high impact of microbes for the degradation of hazardous materials. Dr. Maulin Shah has edited 200 books with Springer, Elsevier, IWA, CRC Press, Wiley, Nova Sciences, Bentham Sciences and IOP in the area of Wastewater Microbiology.

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Sewage treatment & recovery of energy based on the integrated strategy of microbial electrochemical systems (MES).- Removal of micro pollutants from industrial wastewaters by conventional and advanced biological treatment processes.- Network biology approach for identification of pre-disease biomarkers from contaminante-phenotype relationship.- Study of microbial communities in degrading toxic pollutants in the wastewater and solid waste treatment industries.- Membrane Bioreactor for Removal of Persistent Organic Pollutant from Wastewater: A review.- Microbial biochar based sustainable waste management approach.- Exploring plants and microbes for bioremediation of industrial wastewater. Chemical contaminants of water: evaluation methods, environmental risk, and treatment process.- Microbial communities: A promising tool for treatment of wastewater and solid waste.- Treatment of textile dye wastewater with simultaneous bio-electricity generation in microbial fuel cell: A review.- Control strategies for chemical contamination of drinking water.- Emerging contaminants and ways to reduce it.- Risk assessment of Chemical Pollutants in Drinking water.- Environmental and health risks assessment of chemical pollutants in drinking water and wastewaters.- Microbial Biotechnology: A novel pathway for the treatment of dairy industrial wastewater.- Bioremediation, phytoremediation and mycoremediation of wastewater.- Advances in analytical methods for the monitoring of chemical pollutants in Industrial effluent water.