Preface
The ever-growing energy demand and environmental pollution have induced the
search for technologies to harness the power curbed in the biomass and/or biowaste.
This will not only provide the energy but also resolve the disposal burden and
environmental pollution due to faulty disposal of biowaste. The microbiological
and biotechnological techniques can play a great role in finding green and sustainable solutions to the problems related to energy and environment. Environmental
health is broadly concerned with assessing, understanding and controlling the
impacts of anthropogenic activities on the environment and the impact of environment on people. A number of environmental health problems, like effects of toxic
chemicals, resource depletion, etc. have been analysed by researchers. The various
microbial strains can be employed for solving different problems of environmental
health such as degradation of toxic chemicals and production of value-added
products from them, restoring the resources, synthesis of beneficial compounds,
etc. Biotechnological tools give an added advantage over microbiological techniques
by enhancing the efficiency of employed microbes.
The present book is the second volume of the book ‘Environmental Microbiology
and Biotechnology’. In the first volume, we covered three parts, namely: I. solid
waste management, II. agriculture utilization and III. water treatment technology.
This volume covers two sections, namely: IV. bioenergy and V. environmental
health. In Part IV, various biotechnological and microbiological approaches are
described for sustainable energy production such as algal biofuel, biogas production,
aviation biofuels, etc. This part also includes microbiology of bioelectrochemical
system and applications of biotechnology in oil and gas industries. Part V extends
the discussion about applications of microbial biotechnology for better environmental health and covers the topics related to bioinformatics tools for hazardous waste
management, modern biotechnological tools for pathogen analysis, environmental
interaction of stem cells, pharmaceutical waste management, pathogens, genetic
variations and cancer, CO 2 sequestration by microbiological approach, metabolism
of dioxins, remediation of heavy metals degradation of phenols, food safety and
preservation, biotransformation of xenobiotics compound, etc.
The present book is a comprehensive collection of chapters on the utilization of
microbiological and biotechnological tools for energy production and improvement
of environmental health.
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The ever-growing energy demand and environmental pollution have induced the
search for technologies to harness the power curbed in the biomass and/or biowaste.
This will not only provide the energy but also resolve the disposal burden and
environmental pollution due to faulty disposal of biowaste. The microbiological
and biotechnological techniques can play a great role in finding green and sustainable solutions to the problems related to energy and environment. Environmental
health is broadly concerned with assessing, understanding and controlling the
impacts of anthropogenic activities on the environment and the impact of environment on people. A number of environmental health problems, like effects of toxic
chemicals, resource depletion, etc. have been analysed by researchers. The various
microbial strains can be employed for solving different problems of environmental
health such as degradation of toxic chemicals and production of value-added
products from them, restoring the resources, synthesis of beneficial compounds,
etc. Biotechnological tools give an added advantage over microbiological techniques
by enhancing the efficiency of employed microbes.
The present book is the second volume of the book ‘Environmental Microbiology
and Biotechnology’. In the first volume, we covered three parts, namely: I. solid
waste management, II. agriculture utilization and III. water treatment technology.
This volume covers two sections, namely: IV. bioenergy and V. environmental
health. In Part IV, various biotechnological and microbiological approaches are
described for sustainable energy production such as algal biofuel, biogas production,
aviation biofuels, etc. This part also includes microbiology of bioelectrochemical
system and applications of biotechnology in oil and gas industries. Part V extends
the discussion about applications of microbial biotechnology for better environmental health and covers the topics related to bioinformatics tools for hazardous waste
management, modern biotechnological tools for pathogen analysis, environmental
interaction of stem cells, pharmaceutical waste management, pathogens, genetic
variations and cancer, CO 2 sequestration by microbiological approach, metabolism
of dioxins, remediation of heavy metals degradation of phenols, food safety and
preservation, biotransformation of xenobiotics compound, etc.
The present book is a comprehensive collection of chapters on the utilization of
microbiological and biotechnological tools for energy production and improvement
of environmental health.
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