Removal of emerging contaminants through microbial processes

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

Chapter 1. ASPECTS OF MICROBIAL BIOFILMS IN WATER TREATMENT -- Chapter 2. New Bioremediation Technologies to Remove Heavy Metals and Radionuclides -- Chapter 3. Removal of heavy metals using bentonite clay and inorganic coagulants -- Chapter 4. Advanced Oxidation Processes for Wastewater Remediation: An Overview -- Chapter 5. Rhizoremediation of heavy metals and xenobiotics contaminated soil: An Eco-friendly approach -- Chapter 6. Bio treatment of High-salinity Wastewater: Current Methods and Future Directions -- Chapter 7. Facing Lethal Impacts of Industrialization via Green and Sustainable Microbial Removal of Hazardous Pollutants -- Chapter 8. Waste water treatment techniques -- An Introduction -- Chapter 9. New trends in removing heavy metals from industrial wastewater through microbes -- Chapter 10. Biological Wastewater Treatment Technology; Advancement and Drawback -- Chapter 11. Role of Extremophiles and Extremophilic Proteins in Industrial Waste Treatment -- Chapter 12. Bio sorption of carcinogenic heavy metals by bacteria: Role and Mechanism -- Chapter 13. The interest in Nanotechnology: A step towards bioremediation -- Chapter 14. Sustainable phyco-remediation of xenobi…