Bioremediation and Sustainability

Romeela Mohee, PhD, is Professor of Environmental Engineering in the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering at the University of Mauritius. She obtained her PhD at the University of Mauritius in 1998, and her primary research interests are in waste containment, solid waste management and treatment by anaerobic digestion and composting, beneficial reuse of waste materials, and heat and mass transfer modeling. An eminent international consultant in environmental science and energy issues, Dr. Mohee has authored or contributed to over 70 international publications on waste biotreatment, including four books and numerous conference papers and consultancy reports.Ackmez Mudhoo, MPhil, is Lecturer in the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering at the University of Mauritius. His main research interests encompass the design of composting systems, analysis of composting processes, and the biological treatment of solid wastes and wastewater. He has dozens of international journal publications and conference papers to his credit. He is also a peer reviewer on numerous journals, and is the editor-in-chief for two international research journals.

• Dedications PrefaceAcknowledgementsEditorList of ContributorsChapter 1. Elements of Sustainability and BioremediationAckmez Mudhoo and Romeela MoheeChapter 2. Natural AttenuationR. Ryan DupontChapter 3. Anaerobic Digestion ProcessesSteven I. Safferman, Dana M. Kirk Louis L. Faivor, Wei Wu-HaanChapter 4. Biosurfactants: Synthesis, Properties and Applications in Environmental BioremediationRamkrishna Sen, Ackmez Mudhoo and Gunaseelan, D.Chapter 5. Phytoremediation: An Efficient Approach for Bioremediation of Organic and Metallic Ions PollutantsDivya Gupta, Lalit Kumar Singh, Ashish Deep Gupta and Vikash BabuChapter 6. BioleachingLeo G. Leduc and Garry D. FerroniChapter 7. Biosorption of Heavy Metals – New PerspectivesTeresa Taveres and Hugo FigueiredoChapter 8. Biofiltration: Essentials, Research and ApplicationsSmita Raghuvanshi, Subhajit Majumder and Suresh GuptaChapter 9. Modeling and Implementation of Sustainable Remediation Based on BioventingHillel Rubin, Eran Rubin, and Holger SchüttrumpfChapter 10. Bioremediation of XenobioticsKamal Saxena, Gajendra Kumar Aseri, Ashish Deep Gupta and Vikash BabuIndex

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