Synopses & Reviews
In Environmental Biotechnology-Principles and Applications, the authors connect the many different facets of environmental biotechnology. The book develops the basic concepts and quantitative tools in the first six chapters, which comprise the principles. The text consistently calls upon those principles as it describes the applications in Chapters 7 through 16. The theme is that all microbiological processes behave in ways that are understandable, predictable, and unified. At the same time, each application has its own special features that must be understood. The special features do not overturn or sidestep the common principles. Instead, they complement the principles and are most profitably understood in light of the principles.
Synopsis
Written by two of the field's foremost researchers, this comprehensive learning resource presents the biological principles that underlie modern microgbiological treatment technologies designed to improve environmental quality. The first half is focused on the principles, the tools for describing the stoichiometry and energetics of microbial reactions, and for the proper application of kinetics. The second half features applications--with many example problems--to take readers through the procedures to understand how microbial systems work and to design a treatment process.
Table of Contents
1 Basics of Microbiology2 Stoichiometry and Bacterial Energetics3 Microbial Kinetics4 Biofilm Kinetics5 Reactors6 Complex Systems7 The Activated Sludge Process8 Lagoons9 Aerobic Biofilm Process10 Nitrification11 Denitrification12 Phosphorus Removal13 Drinking Water Treatment14 Anaerobic Treatment by Methanogenesis15 Detoxification of Hazardous Chemicals16 Bioremediation