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Title Bioremediation : processes, challenges, and future prospects / editors, Jesús Bernardino Velázquez-Fernández and Saé Muñiz-Hernández (Universidad Autónoma de Nayarit, Mexico, and others)
Published Hauppauge, New York : Nova Science Publishers, Inc., [2013]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Environmental Remediation Technologies, Regulations and Safety
Environmental remediation technologies, regulations and safety.
Contents BIOREMEDIATION: PROCESSES, CHALLENGES AND FUTURE PROSPECTS; BIOREMEDIATION: PROCESSES, CHALLENGES AND FUTURE PROSPECTS; Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data; CONTENTS; PREFACE; SECTION 1: BACTERIAL BIOREMEDIATION; Chapter 1: BIOREMEDIATION OF HEAVY METALS IN SEDIMENTS; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; SEDIMENTS COMPONENTS AND METALS PARTITIONING; METAL-MICROBE INTERACTIONS; BIOLEACHING; BIOVOLATILIZATION; BIOIMMOBILIZATION; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; Chapter 2: MICROBIAL ARSENITE BIOTRANSFORMATION AND ITS POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS IN BIOREMEDIATION; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; CONCLUSION
COLORIMETRIC ANALYSISCONCLUSION; REFERENCES; Chapter 6: DEVELOPMENTS IN BIOREMEDIATION STRATEGIES: ENHANCING BIODEGRADATION USING SURFACTANT AND MICRO-BUBBLES; ABSTRACT; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. BIOREMEDIATION; 3. CHARACTERISTICS OF SURFACTANT; 4. CHARACTERISTICS OF FOAM; 5. TOOLS FOR ASSESSING PERFORMANCE; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; SECTION 2: MICROBIOREMEDIATION; Chapter 7: MODELING THE DISCHARGE OF NUTRIENTS FOR BIOREMEDIATION OF OIL-POLLUTED MARINE ENVIRONMENTS: LINEAR AND QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING STRATEGIES; ABSTRACT; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. DISPERSION MODEL; 3. ADJOINT MODEL AND THE DUALITY PRINCIPLE
4. PECULIARITIES OF DUAL ESTIMATES AND SENSITIVITY FORMULAS5. ANALYTICAL RESULTS IN THE QUADRATIC CONTROL PROBLEM; 6. ANALYTICAL RESULTS IN THE LINEAR CONTROL PROBLEM; 7. MAIN AND ADJOINT NUMERICAL SCHEMES OF THE DISPERSION PROBLEM; 8. NUMERICAL EXAMPLES OF THE REMEDIATION PROBLEM; 9. GENERALIZATION OF THE METHOD; CONCLUSION; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; Chapter 8: EFFECTS OF AGRICULTURAL RESIDUES ON TPH CONCENTRATION AND GENOTOXIC AND MUTAGENIC ACTIVITIES OF A LANDFARMING FACILITY AT AN OIL REFINERY; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; METHODS; RESULTS; DISCUSSION; CONCLUSION; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Summary This book presents state-of-the-art research on bioremediation, which is understood as a discipline that uses organisms or their products to reduce or eliminate the adverse effects of pollutants in the environment. Today, there are many research groups that focus on remedying the adverse effects of our industrialized society, which release compounds daily, increasingly polluting the environment. This book compiles the most important work of distinguished scientists around the world who are at the vanguard in this discipline, covering the environments of soil and water, as well as a great varie
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Subject Bioremediation.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Environmental -- General.
Bioremediation
Form Electronic book
Author Bernardino Velázquez-Fernández, Jesús, editor
Muñiz-Hernández, Saé, editor
ISBN 9781629485157
1629485152