Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1. Persistent Organic Pollutants: An Environmental Menace
(V.P. Sharma and Maulin P Shah – Prof AcSIR & Head Quality Assurance, CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, Lucknow, Industrial Wastewater Research Lab, Enviro Technology Limited, Ahmedabad, India)
Chapter 2. Removal Of Emerging Contaminants Present in Wastewater by Using Advanced Oxidation Processes
(M. M. Ghangrekar, Monali Priyadarshini – School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India, et al.)
Chapter 3. Nanoremediation of Industrial Heavy Metal Effluents Using Carbon Nanomaterials as Superb Nanoadsorbents
(Basma A. Omran and M.O. Abdelsalam – Petroleum Biotechnology Laboratory, Processes Design & Development Department, Egyptian Petroleum Research Institute, Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt, et al.)
Chapter 4. Emerging Pollutants: Occurrence, Fate, Impacts and Removal Technologies
(Sonam Tiwari, Rohit Kushwaha, Pranjal Tripathi, R.S. Singh, Devendra Mohan – Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University) Varanasi, India, et al.)
Chapter 5. Nanotechnological Interventions to Tackle Heavy Metal Pollution
(Ashish S Gite, Karthic A, Jaya R Lakkakula, Nilesh S Wagh – Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Amity University Maharashtra, Mumbai – Pune Expressway, Bhatan, Post – Somathne, Panvel, Maharashtra)
Chapter 6. Bioremediation: A Novel Way to Deal with Petroleum Sludge for Sustainable Environment
(Hiren K. Patel, Rishee K. Kalaria, Divyesh K. Vasava – School of Science, P. P. Savani University, Surat, Gujarat, India, et al.)
Chapter 7. Advanced Oxidation Process in Wastewater Reuse
(Khushboo Dasauni and Tapan Kumar Nailwal – Department of Biotechnology, Sir J. C. Bose Technical Campus, Bhimtal, Kumaun University Nainital, Uttarakhand, India)
Chapter 8. Photocatalysis as Advanced Oxidation Processes for Wastewater Treatment
(Manash Protim Mudoi, Amit K. Thakur, Abhimanyu Singh Khichi, Ravi Shankar – Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India, et al.)
Chapter 9. Role of Fungal and Plant Systems in Wastewater Treatment: Mechanisms and Applications
(Nitin Chauhan, Arvind Arya, Sukirti Khantwal, Surabhi, Shivangi Sharma, Randhir Kumar Bharti, Priyadarshini Dey, Sunil Gola, Pankaj Kumar Tyagi, Deepak Gola – Department of Microbiology, Swami Shraddhanand College, University of Delhi, Delhi, India, et al.)
Chapter 10. Insights into a Novel Technology of Limestone-Sawdust-Bacteria and Nano TIO2 for Treatment of Acid Mine Drainage
(Hoang-Nam Nguyen, Khac-Uan Do – School of Environmental Science and Technology, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam, et al.)
Chapter 11. Different Approaches for Bioremediation of Harmful Pollutants
(Swatilekha Pati, Somok Banerjee, Bratati Paul, Ashutosh Kumar – Department of Microbiology, Tripura University (A Central University), Suryamaninagar, Agartala, Tripura, India)
Chapter 12. Nitrate Problems and Its Remediation
(Anne Bhambri and Santosh Kumar Karn – Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Sardar Bhagwan Singh University (Formerly, Sardar Bhagwan Singh Post Graduate Institute of Biomedical Science and Research) Balawala, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India, et al.)
Chapter 13. Emerging Contaminants
(Beauty Rai, Anupama Shrivastava – Department of Microbiology, Parul Institute of Applied Sciences Parul University, Vadodara, Gujarat, India)
Chapter 14. Bioremediation of Soils Polluted with Hexavalent Chromium using Bacteria
(Rujuta Kedar Karkhanis and Anupama Shrivastav – Department of Microbiology, Parul Institute of Applied Sciences, Parul University, Vadodara, Gujarat, India)
Index