Environmental Biotechnology - Theory and Application

64 Environmental Biotechnology Continued from page 63 drinking water is abstracted from rivers and, in common with many other in ...

4 Chapter 4 Pollution and Pollution Control Pollution has become one of the most frequently talked about of all environmental pr ...

66 Environmental Biotechnology Classifying Pollution While, as we said earlier, this diverse nature of potential pollutants make ...

Pollution and Pollution Control 67 may kill swiftly in high concentrations, may also have an effect on an organism’s behaviour o ...

68 Environmental Biotechnology Chemistry Pollution effects are not always entirely defined by the initial nature of the con- tam ...

Pollution and Pollution Control 69 depends on its nature and the characteristics of the specific pathway used to achieve this. I ...

70 Environmental Biotechnology There are two main mechanisms, often labelled ‘direct’ and ‘indirect’. In the former, the effect ...

Pollution and Pollution Control 71 Although we have been considering the issue of metal toxicity in relation to the contaminatio ...

72 Environmental Biotechnology In plants, sulphur is actively taken up in the form of sulphate SO 42 −.The similarity of seleniu ...

Pollution and Pollution Control 73 requirement are, then, principal factors and they interact as shown in Table 4.4 to indicate ...

74 Environmental Biotechnology Biotrickling filters As shown in Figure 4.3, in many respects these represent an intermediate tec ...

Pollution and Pollution Control 75 Figure 4.4 Bioscrubber Bioscrubbers Although it is normally included in the same group, the b ...

76 Environmental Biotechnology Adsorption Activated carbon preferentially adsorbs organic molecules; this can be tailored to giv ...

Pollution and Pollution Control 77 the first place must be preferential. The proverbial ounce of prevention is worth a pound of ...

78 Environmental Biotechnology could give rise to significant environmental benefit. Biological synthesis, either by whole organ ...

Pollution and Pollution Control 79 However, perhaps the most fitting example of environmental biotechnology in the textile indus ...

80 Environmental Biotechnology Desulphurisation of coal and oil Microbial desulphurisation of coal and oil represents a further ...

Pollution and Pollution Control 81 organic sulphur, including heterotrophes (Rai and Reyniers 1988) likePseu- domonas,Rhizobiuma ...

82 Environmental Biotechnology dynamics, as examined in other sections of this book, has a supportive role to play in the overal ...

Pollution and Pollution Control 83 insects. Despite much research and development effort, the results were largely unpredictable ...