Sustainable Water and Wastewater Treatment – serie

This book explores how bioremediation biotechnology is used to remove pollutants in wastewater. Remediation of wastewater is important to ensure that pollutants generated in industry do not effect our environment negatively. Traditional wastewater remediation is not a sustainable process, however by using biological means the sustainability can be improved. Both conventional methods and bioremediation technologies are discussed. Applications for heavy metal, nitrate, and petroleum bioremediation, nanotechnology in bioremediation, and more are explored.

Current use of the ammonia oxidizing bacteria (AOB) within biological wastewater treatment system is incomplete due to limitations of current culture-based techniques. This book offers an overview of new nitrification technologies via the use of AOB in the removal of ammonia nitrogen from wastewater. The application of new approaches based on AOB leads to greater ammonia nitrogen removal and results in more efficient wastewater treatment.

This work discusses advancements in biotechnology to remediate toxic pollutants from wastewater caused by industries and human activities. The combination of better sensors and new water treatment technologies is a strong enabler for decentralised and diversified water treatment. The authors present innovative research addressing these challenges and discuss successful wastewater treatment systems.

This book covers the latest development in the biotechnological application of extremophiles. Along with this the impact of climate change and environmental pollution on loss of diversity of extremophiles is also discussed. This is crucial as the loss of this diversity is related with the loss of many bioactive compounds and bacteria of ecological importance. This volume outlines applications of extremophiles in biotechnology, nanotechnology, and bioremediation.

As wastewater contains diverse microbes, the regular microbiological screening at wastewater treatment plants is essential for monitoring wastewater treatment. This work discusses enzymatic as well as culture-dependent/-independent methods used to estimate bacterial diversity and to monitor temporal and spatial changes. A metagenomic approach is used to characterize the microbial communities in industrial wastewater treatment.