Description
Pollution and ways to combat it have become topics of great concern for researchers. One of the most important dimensions of this global crisis is wastewater, which can often become contaminated with heavy metals such as lead, mercury, and arsenic, which are released from different industrial wastes, mines, and agricultural runoff. Bioremediation of such heavy metals has been extensively studied using different groups of bacteria, fungi, and algae, and has been considered as a safer, eco-friendly, and cost-effective option for mitigation of contaminated wasteland. The toxicity of water impacts all of society, and so it is of great importance that we understand the better, cleaner, and more efficient ways of treating water.
Recent Advancements in Bioremediation of Metal Contaminants is a pivotal reference source that explores bioremediation of pollutants from industrial wastes and examines the role of diverse forms of microbes in bioremediation of wastewater. Covering a broad range of topics including microorganism tolerance, phytoremediation, and fungi, the role of different extremophiles and biofilms in bioremediation are also discussed. This book is ideally designed for environmentalists, engineers, policymakers, academicians, researchers, and students in the fields of microbiology, toxicology, environmental chemistry, and soil and water science.
Author's/Editor's Biography
Satarupa Dey (Ed.)
Satarupa Dey, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in Department of Botany, Shyampur Siddheswari Mahavidyalaya, affiliated under University of Calcutta, West Bengal, India. She earned her BSc in Botany from University of Calcutta, West Bengal, India. She holds also an MSc in Botany with Microbiology specialization from the same university. She completed her PhD in the year 2012 and her field of expertise is Bioremediation of Toxic metals. She was selected as a Department of Biotechnology, Government of India research fellow and later worked as visiting scientist in Agricultural and Ecological research Unit of Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. She is the recipient of the Woman Scientist (WOS A) fellowship of Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. She has published in several journals of National and International repute.
Biswaranjan Acharya (Ed.)
Biswaranjan Acharya is an academic currently associated with Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology Deemed to be University along with pursuing Ph.D. in computer application from Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology (VSSUT), Burla, Odisha, India. He has received MCA in 2009 MCA from IGNOU, New Delhi, India and M.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering in the year of 2012 from Biju Pattanaik University of Technology (BPUT), Odisha, India. He is also associated with various educational and research societies like IACSIT, CSI, IAENG, and ISC. He has along with 2 years industry experience as a software engineer, total 9 years experience in both academia of some repute university like Ravenshaw University and software development field. He currently is working on research area multiprocessor scheduling along with different fields like Data Analytics, Computer Vision, Machine Learning and IOT.