Environmental Technology and Sustainability: Physical, Chemical and Biological Technologies for Clean Environmental Management

by Basanta Kumara Behera, Ram Prasad PhD

Overview

Environmental Technology and Sustainability: Physical, Chemical and Biological Technologies for Clean Environmental Management provides a dependable source of information on the fundamental scientific evidence involved in environmental protection and sustainable development. The book provides the basic natural sciences that underpin the understanding, development and application of environment technologies that support a clean inhabitable world that includes environmental technologies and sustainable, renewable energy systems. It considers the science and technology for environmental benefits, including the development of both smarter, cleaner technologies for environmental protection, conservation, and more.

• Provides methods and processes for CO2 Sequestration
• Focuses on technologies for reducing greenhouse gases and for biofuel production
• Outlines issues surrounding contaminated water and provides solutions for water management
• Describes problems facing air pollution, including sources and mitigation
• Includes contaminated soil management

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780128191040
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	04/05/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	230
File size:	13 MB
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About the Author

Dr. Basanta Kumara Behera was a Professor of Biotechnology at three distinguished Indian universities, where he taught and conducted research at the post-graduate level on medical biotechnology, biopharmaceutical, microbial process development, drug designing, bio-energy management, and biomass processing technology since 1978. In 2009, he joined an MNC company as an advisor for specialty chemicals production and drug design through microbial process technology. He is associated with national and international companies as a technical advisor to produce biopharmaceuticals under cGMP norms. Dr. Behera has authored and edited books with various publishers worldwide.

Dr. Ram Prasad is an Associate Professor at Mahatma Gandhi Central University, Bihar, India. Dr. Prasad has served as an Assistant Professor Amity University Uttar Pradesh, India; Visiting Assistant Professor, Whiting School of Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, United States, and Research Associate Professor at School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China. Dr. Prasad has more than two hundred publications to his credit, including research papers, review articles, and book chapters; has edited or authored several books; and has five patents issued or pending. He’s on the editorial boards of a number of journals, and his research interests include plant-microbe interaction, agriculture sustainability, nanobiotechnology, and applied microbiology.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction2. Greenhouse gas capture and conversion3. Aqueous-phase Conservation and management4. Contaminated Soil Management5. Air pollution and controlling measures

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Contains information on the implementation of modern integrated environmental technology and its commercialization