Publisher's Synopsis
Discusses detoxification of contaminated water, microbial degradation of pollutants, biological wastewater treatment and many other similar concepts. Microbial ecology and environmental biotechnology go hand in hand wherein underlying processes in microbial communities are the basis for managing events or methods in environmental biotechnology. Several new technologies have been developed like sequencing batch reactors for growth, hyperbaric chambers for isolation of exclusive micro organisms etc. which are discussed in this book.