Acknowledgments
The edited book Bioremediation of Industrial Waste for Environmental Safety:
Biological Agents and Methods for Industrial Waste Management (Volume II) is
the outcome of long dedicated efforts of many individuals who directly or indirectly
supported us during the compilation and upbringing of this valuable edition, many of
whom deserve special mention.
Editors are thankful to all the national and international contributing authors for
their valuable submissions and cooperation and for providing most up-to-date
information on the diverse aspects of the subject regardless of their busy schedules;
Prof. Diane Purchase, Middlesex University, London, England (United Kingdom),
for writing an opinion foreword for the book; Dr. G. D. Saratale, Dongguk
University-Seoul, Seoul (Republic of Korea), and Dr. Sikandar I. Mulla, Chinese
Academy of Sciences (CAS), Xiamen (People’s Republic of China), for the meaningful collaboration, cooperation, and support; Dr. Jay Shankar Singh, Department
of Environmental Microbiology (DEM), Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar (Central)
University (BBAU), Lucknow (India), for the better advice and helpful discussion
on the subject, and Mr. Surya Pratap Goutam and Mr. Rajkamal Shastri, Doctoral
Fellow, Department of Applied Physics; Roop Kishor, Doctoral Fellow, DEM,
BBAU, and Mr. Akash Mishra, Doctoral Fellow, Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO)-Defence Institute of Bioenergy Research (DIBER),
Haldwani (India), for helping us in various ways during the book project.
We are extremely thankful to our publishing editors, Ms. Aakanksha Tyagi
and Dr. Mamta Kapila, Springer Nature (India), for the encouragement, support,
and valuable advice and skillful organization and management of the entire book
project; Ms. Raman Shukla, for the skillful management of book production,
Mr. N. S. Pandian and Mr. Daniel Ignatius Jagadisan, for moving the book through
the production process in an efficient and professional manner and R. Rathika for
generating and managing the book proof.
We are also heartily thankful to the Almighty God for helping us through the
entire journey and making the experience enjoyable. Further, we hope that the book
volume will be of great value to researchers in the area of bioremediation of
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The edited book Bioremediation of Industrial Waste for Environmental Safety:
Biological Agents and Methods for Industrial Waste Management (Volume II) is
the outcome of long dedicated efforts of many individuals who directly or indirectly
supported us during the compilation and upbringing of this valuable edition, many of
whom deserve special mention.
Editors are thankful to all the national and international contributing authors for
their valuable submissions and cooperation and for providing most up-to-date
information on the diverse aspects of the subject regardless of their busy schedules;
Prof. Diane Purchase, Middlesex University, London, England (United Kingdom),
for writing an opinion foreword for the book; Dr. G. D. Saratale, Dongguk
University-Seoul, Seoul (Republic of Korea), and Dr. Sikandar I. Mulla, Chinese
Academy of Sciences (CAS), Xiamen (People’s Republic of China), for the meaningful collaboration, cooperation, and support; Dr. Jay Shankar Singh, Department
of Environmental Microbiology (DEM), Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar (Central)
University (BBAU), Lucknow (India), for the better advice and helpful discussion
on the subject, and Mr. Surya Pratap Goutam and Mr. Rajkamal Shastri, Doctoral
Fellow, Department of Applied Physics; Roop Kishor, Doctoral Fellow, DEM,
BBAU, and Mr. Akash Mishra, Doctoral Fellow, Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO)-Defence Institute of Bioenergy Research (DIBER),
Haldwani (India), for helping us in various ways during the book project.
We are extremely thankful to our publishing editors, Ms. Aakanksha Tyagi
and Dr. Mamta Kapila, Springer Nature (India), for the encouragement, support,
and valuable advice and skillful organization and management of the entire book
project; Ms. Raman Shukla, for the skillful management of book production,
Mr. N. S. Pandian and Mr. Daniel Ignatius Jagadisan, for moving the book through
the production process in an efficient and professional manner and R. Rathika for
generating and managing the book proof.
We are also heartily thankful to the Almighty God for helping us through the
entire journey and making the experience enjoyable. Further, we hope that the book
volume will be of great value to researchers in the area of bioremediation of
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