Biotransformations: Bioremediation Technology for Health and Environmental Protection

R.D. Stapleton Jr., V.P. Singh, R.D. Stapleton, Jr.

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2002
• Print ISBN: 9780444509970
• eBook ISBN: 9780080528205
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Environmental Management
• Index: Technology & Engineering

This volume provides a clear understanding of how microbes, following their degradative processes, contribute maximally to the benefit of mankind through biotransformations of waste materials as well as a wide variety of health-risk compounds.The book contains twenty four chapters contributed by leading scientists from different parts of the world, covering various aspects of bioremediation of xenobiotics such as toxic, carcinogenic, teratogenic, and mutagenic compounds, which include halogenated aromatics, derivatives of heavy metals, microbial toxins, tannins, dyes, sulfur compounds of coal and petroleum and pesticides. The bioremediation of agricultural residue, industrial as well as municipal wastes, fuel oils, lubricants, natural rubber products, and other synthetic polymers, which pollute the environment substantially, also constitutes an important component of the book. All biotechnological aspects of microbial transformations pertaining to biodegradation/bioremediation of hazardous wastes, ranging from screening methods for microbes with degradative potential, processes of degradation, strain improvement for enhanced biodegradation and elimination of xenobiotics of health and environmental concern have been dealt with. The book intends to widen the scope of Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology in general and biotransformations in particular. It will provide an opportunity for scientists in the areas of biochemistry, food industry, environmental science and engineering and their implications in technologically feasible, environment friendly and economically viable bioremediation options. Also, it forms an interface between agro-industrial establishments and the academic world and will generate new thought provoking ideas for scientists of future generations for the safeguard of both human and animal health as well as the environment.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Biotransformations: Bioremediation Technology for Health and Environmental Protection
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Preface
• List of abbreviations
• List of contributors
• Chapter 1. Bioremediation of compounds hazardous to health and the environment: An overview
• Chapter 2. Microbial degradation of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in the environment
• Chapter 3. Biodegradation of fuel oils and lubricants. Soil and water bioremediation options
• Chapter 4. Bioremediation technology for environmental protection through bioconversion of agro-industrial wastes
• Chapter 5. Enzymatic transformations of xenobiotics of health and environmental concern
• Chapter 6. Microbial degradation of chlorobenzoates (CBAs): Biochemical aspects and ecological implications
• Chapter 7. Microbial degradation of insecticides: An assessment for its use in bioremediation
• Chapter 8. Microbial variables for bioremediation of heavy metals from industrial effluents
• Chapter 9. Lactic acid bacteria in winemaking: Influence on sensorial and hygienic quality
• Chapter 10. Microbial transformation of aflatoxins
• Chapter 11. Biotransformations of tannery wastes
• Chapter 12. Oxidation of organic and inorganic sulfur compounds by aerobic heterotrophic marine bacteria
• Chapter 13. Lignin degradation by bacteria
• Chapter 14. Microbial bioremediation of textile effluents
• Chapter 15. Biodegradation of diaryl esters: Bacterial and fungal catabolism of phenylbenzoate and some of its derivatives
• Chapter 16. Degradation of natural rubber products by Nocardia species
• Chapter 17. Sewage treatment systems: Microbiological aspects
• Chapter 18. Electro-physical properties of microbial cells during the aerobic metabolism of toxic compounds
• Chapter 19. Microbial degradation of sulfur compounds present in coal and petroleum
• Chapter 20. Algae-dependent bioremediation of hazardous wastes
• Chapter 21. Some physiological characteristics of saprotrophic and ectomycorrhizal fungi producing sporophores on the urea-treated forest floor
• Chapter 22. Bioremediation of contaminated water bodies
• Chapter 23. Biotransformations and biodegradation in extreme environments
• Chapter 24. Bioremediation of hazardous ethylenebisdithiocarbamate (EBDC) fungicides
• Index