Prof Kashyap Kumar Dubey is currently working as Professor at School of Biotechnology, JNU New Delhi. His research interests are in biochemical engineering and wastewater treatment which includes process development of value added pharmaceutical products through optimization of enzyme reactions and toxicological studies of micro-pollutants.Prof Kamal K Pant is currently Director, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee and has been Petrotech Chair Professor and Dean Faculty and Head of the Chemical Engineering Department at IIT Delhi. He is working on cutting edge and futuristic technologies for coal to methanol conversion, e-waste treatment, waste plastic conversion, biomass valorization, etc. using catalysis and reaction engineering.Prof. Ashok Pandey is currently Distinguished Scientist at the Centre for Innovation and Translational Research, CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, Lucknow, India. His major research and technological development interests are industrial & environmental biotechnology and energy biosciences, focusing on biomass to biofuels & chemicals, waste to wealth, energy, industrial enzymes, etc.Prof. Maria Ángeles Sanromán is the head of the Bioengineering & Sustainable Processes Group at the University of Vigo, Spain. Currently, main research lines carried out are Environmental Technology applied to soil and water remediation, Advanced Oxidation Processes; Reuse, Recycling & Valorisation of wastes; Green Chemistry and Catalyst.

• PrefaceEditor BiographiesList of contributors1. Electrochemical Sensors for Environmental Water MonitoringIsabel Seguro, Patrícia Rebelo, João Pacheco, Henri Nouws, and Cristina Delerue-Matos2. Monitoring and control of toxic chemicals through different sensorsFarzana Naushin, Akanksha Kumari, Ayushi Tanwar, Ranjita Ghosh Moulick and Jaydeep Bhattacharya3. Sources and Fate of Antibiotics in the EnvironmentSanchari Basak, Akshay Kumar, Deepanshi Rajput, Anshu Baldia, Kashyap Kumar Dubey, Sandip Chakrabarti4. An overview of Bioremediation using BioadsorbentsSuranjana Sarkar, Tina Basu, Subhamoy Banerjee, Ruchira Mukherjee5. Microbial and Enzymatic Mineralization of Pharmaceuticals CompoundsMagdalena de Jesús Rostro-Alanis, Alejandra Flórez-Restrepo, Sofía Rodríguez de Luna, Xiomara López-Legarda, Eduardo Torres Ramírez, Elda Ariadna Flores Contreras, Carlos Castillo Zacarías, Freimar Segura-Sánchez, José Rodríguez-Rodríguez and Roberto Parra-Saldívar6. Microbial and Enzymatic Degradation of Plastics Waste in WaterMagdalena de Jesús Rostro-Alanis, Alexander Meneses-Jácome, María Asunción Molina Esquinas, Lynette Alvarado Ramírez, Manuel Sánchez-Sánchez, Rosa María Blanco Martín, Carlos Castillo Zacarías, Roberto Parra-Saldívar7. Hybrid approaches for the mineralization of toxic chemicalsAshok Kumar Gupta, Adarsh Singh, Duduku Saidulu, Ashish Srivastava, Akash Rawat8. Biological upcycling of plastic wastes into value-added chemicalsSiseon Lee, Hye Jin Lim, Hye Min Song, Bong Hyun Sung, Si Jae Park and Jeong Chan Joo*9. Microbial Fuel Cells for Hazardous Wastewater TreatmentArti Sharma and Meenu Chhabra*Index

Prof Kashyap Kumar Dubey is currently working as Professor at School of Biotechnology, JNU New Delhi. His research interests are in biochemical engineering and wastewater treatment which includes process development of value added pharmaceutical products through optimization of enzyme reactions and toxicological studies of micro-pollutants.Prof Kamal K Pant is currently Director, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee and has been Petrotech Chair Professor and Dean Faculty and Head of the Chemical Engineering Department at IIT Delhi. He is working on cutting edge and futuristic technologies for coal to methanol conversion, e-waste treatment, waste plastic conversion, biomass valorization, etc. using catalysis and reaction engineering.Prof. Ashok Pandey is currently Distinguished Scientist at the Centre for Innovation and Translational Research, CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, Lucknow, India. His major research and technological development interests are industrial & environmental biotechnology and energy biosciences, focusing on biomass to biofuels & chemicals, waste to wealth, energy, industrial enzymes, etc.Prof. Maria Ángeles Sanromán is the head of the Bioengineering & Sustainable Processes Group at the University of Vigo, Spain. Currently, main research lines carried out are Environmental Technology applied to soil and water remediation, Advanced Oxidation Processes; Reuse, Recycling & Valorisation of wastes; Green Chemistry and Catalyst.

• PrefaceEditor BiographiesList of contributors1. Electrochemical Sensors for Environmental Water MonitoringIsabel Seguro, Patrícia Rebelo, João Pacheco, Henri Nouws, and Cristina Delerue-Matos2. Monitoring and control of toxic chemicals through different sensorsFarzana Naushin, Akanksha Kumari, Ayushi Tanwar, Ranjita Ghosh Moulick and Jaydeep Bhattacharya3. Sources and Fate of Antibiotics in the EnvironmentSanchari Basak, Akshay Kumar, Deepanshi Rajput, Anshu Baldia, Kashyap Kumar Dubey, Sandip Chakrabarti4. An overview of Bioremediation using BioadsorbentsSuranjana Sarkar, Tina Basu, Subhamoy Banerjee, Ruchira Mukherjee5. Microbial and Enzymatic Mineralization of Pharmaceuticals CompoundsMagdalena de Jesús Rostro-Alanis, Alejandra Flórez-Restrepo, Sofía Rodríguez de Luna, Xiomara López-Legarda, Eduardo Torres Ramírez, Elda Ariadna Flores Contreras, Carlos Castillo Zacarías, Freimar Segura-Sánchez, José Rodríguez-Rodríguez and Roberto Parra-Saldívar6. Microbial and Enzymatic Degradation of Plastics Waste in WaterMagdalena de Jesús Rostro-Alanis, Alexander Meneses-Jácome, María Asunción Molina Esquinas, Lynette Alvarado Ramírez, Manuel Sánchez-Sánchez, Rosa María Blanco Martín, Carlos Castillo Zacarías, Roberto Parra-Saldívar7. Hybrid approaches for the mineralization of toxic chemicalsAshok Kumar Gupta, Adarsh Singh, Duduku Saidulu, Ashish Srivastava, Akash Rawat8. Biological upcycling of plastic wastes into value-added chemicalsSiseon Lee, Hye Jin Lim, Hye Min Song, Bong Hyun Sung, Si Jae Park and Jeong Chan Joo*9. Microbial Fuel Cells for Hazardous Wastewater TreatmentArti Sharma and Meenu Chhabra*Index

Prof Kashyap Kumar Dubey is currently working as Professor at School of Biotechnology, JNU New Delhi. His research interests are in biochemical engineering and wastewater treatment which includes process development of value added pharmaceutical products through optimization of enzyme reactions and toxicological studies of micro-pollutants.Prof Kamal K Pant is currently Director, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee and has been Petrotech Chair Professor and Dean Faculty and Head of the Chemical Engineering Department at IIT Delhi. He is working on cutting edge and futuristic technologies for coal to methanol conversion, e-waste treatment, waste plastic conversion, biomass valorization, etc. using catalysis and reaction engineering.Prof. Ashok Pandey is currently Distinguished Scientist at the Centre for Innovation and Translational Research, CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, Lucknow, India. His major research and technological development interests are industrial & environmental biotechnology and energy biosciences, focusing on biomass to biofuels & chemicals, waste to wealth, energy, industrial enzymes, etc.Prof. Maria Ángeles Sanromán is the head of the Bioengineering & Sustainable Processes Group at the University of Vigo, Spain. Currently, main research lines carried out are Environmental Technology applied to soil and water remediation, Advanced Oxidation Processes; Reuse, Recycling & Valorisation of wastes; Green Chemistry and Catalyst.

• PrefaceEditor BiographiesList of contributors1. Electrochemical Sensors for Environmental Water MonitoringIsabel Seguro, Patrícia Rebelo, João Pacheco, Henri Nouws, and Cristina Delerue-Matos2. Monitoring and control of toxic chemicals through different sensorsFarzana Naushin, Akanksha Kumari, Ayushi Tanwar, Ranjita Ghosh Moulick and Jaydeep Bhattacharya3. Sources and Fate of Antibiotics in the EnvironmentSanchari Basak, Akshay Kumar, Deepanshi Rajput, Anshu Baldia, Kashyap Kumar Dubey, Sandip Chakrabarti4. An overview of Bioremediation using BioadsorbentsSuranjana Sarkar, Tina Basu, Subhamoy Banerjee, Ruchira Mukherjee5. Microbial and Enzymatic Mineralization of Pharmaceuticals CompoundsMagdalena de Jesús Rostro-Alanis, Alejandra Flórez-Restrepo, Sofía Rodríguez de Luna, Xiomara López-Legarda, Eduardo Torres Ramírez, Elda Ariadna Flores Contreras, Carlos Castillo Zacarías, Freimar Segura-Sánchez, José Rodríguez-Rodríguez and Roberto Parra-Saldívar6. Microbial and Enzymatic Degradation of Plastics Waste in WaterMagdalena de Jesús Rostro-Alanis, Alexander Meneses-Jácome, María Asunción Molina Esquinas, Lynette Alvarado Ramírez, Manuel Sánchez-Sánchez, Rosa María Blanco Martín, Carlos Castillo Zacarías, Roberto Parra-Saldívar7. Hybrid approaches for the mineralization of toxic chemicalsAshok Kumar Gupta, Adarsh Singh, Duduku Saidulu, Ashish Srivastava, Akash Rawat8. Biological upcycling of plastic wastes into value-added chemicalsSiseon Lee, Hye Jin Lim, Hye Min Song, Bong Hyun Sung, Si Jae Park and Jeong Chan Joo*9. Microbial Fuel Cells for Hazardous Wastewater TreatmentArti Sharma and Meenu Chhabra*Index