Editors: Manikant Tripathi, Durgesh Narain Singh

Bioremediation: Challenges and Advancements

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ISBN: 978-981-5036-04-6 (Print)
ISBN: 978-981-5036-03-9 (Online)
Year of Publication: 2022
DOI: 10.2174/97898150360391220101

Introduction

Waste management is one of the major challenges for environmental and public health organizations for maintaining safety standards in any area. Population growth and urbanization increase the difficulty in maintaining a sustainable waste management system. Bioremediation refers to the use of living organisms in processes designed to remove toxic chemicals present in waste material. Bioremediation represents a sustainable way to remove a range of environmental pollutants.

Bioremediation: Challenges and Advancements covers the subject of bioremediation in eight chapters that focus on a broad range of waste sources, their adverse impacts on the ecosystem, and the advanced strategies for their remediation. Each chapter also highlights the problems encountered in bioremediation processes.

Key features:

- Comprehensive coverage of bioremediation in 8 reader-friendly chapters

- Highlights methods and challenges of bioremediation in one volume.

- Introduces the reader to bioremediation

- Explains recent biotechnological methods for removing heavy metals and xenobiotic compounds

- Describes strategies including physical, chemical, and biological methods to mitigate radioactive waste from contaminated sites and water bodies

- Details the use of microbial-aided remediation techniques for the management of biomedical and electronic wastes, and its impact on the ecosystem

- Describes bioremediation technologies for decontamination of solid waste pollutants

- Showcases the application of Omics approaches such as genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics to improve bioremediation processes.

- Covers bioremediation of agro-wastes

- Includes detailed references

This book is an informative reference for scholars (researchers, undergraduate and graduate students of environmental sciences, microbiology and biotechnology) professionals (environmental engineers) and researchers, giving each a good understanding of the significance of bioremediation in solid waste management and the restoration of contaminated sites.

Preface

Waste management is one of the major challenges for environmental and public health worldwide. With the growing population and urbanization, it is increasing every day. These wastes contain various types of toxic pollutants of organic and inorganic nature, which disturb the ecosystem and pose adverse effects to humans and animals. The provision of pollution-free soil, air, and safe water is critical for a balanced ecosystem. Several treatment techniques, including physical, chemical, and biological, are used to remediate hazardous wastes, whereas bioremediation offers cost-effective and green technology for the abatement of toxic pollutants in the environment. However, there are lots of constraints and complexity in dealing with waste management. This book comprises eight chapters that focus on the waste source to its adverse impacts on the ecosystem, and the advanced strategies for their remediation along with associated challenges. The first two chapters explain microbe-assisted remediation technology to detoxify heavy metals and degrade xenobiotic compounds through various biosynthetic mechanisms, along with the significance of recent biotechnological methods in improving the capability of microbial remediation methods. The toxic pollutants are successfully degraded in microbe-assisted remediation along with phytoremediation. The challenges, future outlooks, and limitations are also discussed. Chapter 3 describes strategies including physical, chemical, and biological methods to mitigate radioactive waste from contaminated sites and water bodies. This chapter is focused on eco-friendly and economical solutions for global radioactive waste disposal problems and other associated challenges. Chapter 4 discusses biomedical waste, which is hazardous, and if left untreated, can cause serious health hazards. This chapter detailed the use of microbial-aided remediation techniques for the removal of biomedical waste. Chapter 5 explains the source of electronic waste, its impact on humans and animals, physicochemical and advanced microbiological methods for the management of e-waste, as well as challenges associated with this. Chapter 6 describes bioremediation strategies for the decontamination of solid waste pollutants. Chapter 7 focuses on the application of OMICs approaches such as genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics in bioremediation. It plays a significant role in generating information about degradative enzymes and pathways involved in the remediation of pollutants by microorganisms. The last chapter describes the bioremediation of agricultural wastes.

The peculiarity of the book is that it does not only cover methods of bioremediation but also describes the challenges as well recent advancements in the bioremediation of different pollutants. This book would be beneficial to students of environmental sciences, including microbiology and biotechnology, environmental engineers, and researchers working for the restoration of contaminated sites.

Manikant Tripathi
Biotechnology Programme
Dr. Rammanohar Lohia Avadh University
Ayodhya-224001
Uttar Pradesh
India

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Durgesh Narain Singh
Department of Zoology
University of Delhi, Delhi-110007
India and BioNEST-BHU, Banaras Hindu
University, Varanasi-221005, U.P., India