Environmental Biotechnology

Volume 10: Environmental Biotechnology in the Handbook of Environmental Engineering series presents the theories and principles of various environmental biotechnologies. This outstanding collection of science information is designed as a basic Environmental Biotechnology textbook as well as a refere...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Wang, Lawrence K. (Editor), Ivanov, Volodymyr. (Editor), Tay, Joo-Hwa. (Editor)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press, 2010.
Edition:1st.
Series:Handbook of Environmental Engineering ; 10
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Online Access:https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60327-140-0
Table of Contents:
  • Applications of environmental biotechnology
  • Microbiology of environmental engineering systems
  • Microbial systematics
  • Microbial ecology
  • Microbial metabolism: importance for environmental biotechnology
  • Microbial ecology of isolated life support systems
  • Environmental solid-state cultivation processes and bioreactors
  • Value-added biotechnological products from organic wastes
  • Anaerobic digestion in suspended growth bioreactors
  • Selection and design of membrane bioreactors in environmental bioengineering
  • Closed ecological systems, space life support and biospherics
  • Natural environmental biotechnology
  • aerobic and anoxic suspended-growth biotechnologies
  • Aerobic and anaerobic attached-growth biotechnology
  • Sequencing batch reactor biotechnology
  • Flotation biological systems
  • a/o phosphorus removal biotechnology
  • Treatment of septage and biosolids from biological processes
  • Environmental control of biotechnology industry.