Main description:

Material-Microbes Interactions: Environmental Biotechnological Perspective brings great insights into microbes-material interactions, biofilm formation and emerging bioprocesses within the field of applied biotechnology. The book systematically summarizes the fundamental principles, the state-of-the-art in microbes-material interaction, and its application in bioprocess and environmental technology development. Understanding the fundamental processes of biofilm formation, the role of material to exchange the energy with microbes, biofilm matrix, and optimization of the biofilm formation process is useful to everyone involved with bioprocess development. This book will be of significant interest to environmental technology developers, researchers, university professors, policymakers, graduate and postgraduate students and other stakeholders.

Interestingly, academic institutions, wastewater treatment plants and research centers have upscaled biofilm-based environmental technologies, such as moving bed bioreactors, microalgae, tricking bed reactors, biofilters, and bioelectrochemical process as promising environmental technologies.

Contents:

Fundamentals and Advances
1. Microbial biofilm: formation, characteristics, and significance in the environment
2. Materials and their characteristics relevant to biofilm growth
3. Development of biocompatible materials for microbial-biofilm-based applications
4. Microbe-electrode interactions in bioelectrochemical systems
5. Understanding the electron transfer between electrode material for biosynthesis
6. Microbial biocorrosion phenomenon and electron exchange mechanism

Specific application
7. Role of electrode engineering in a microbial fuel cell for bioelectricity production
8. Microbes-mineral interaction in bioremediation of toxic chemicals
9. Role of carrier materials in moving bed bioreactor for wastewater treatment
10. Microbes-material interactions for direct inter-species electron transfer in anaerobic digestion
11. Microbial-clay minerals interaction and biotechnological implications
12. Understanding of Individual-based modeling of biofilms of Heterogeneous Biofilms
13. Spatial surface modification of cathode material in microbial electrosynthesis of chemicals from carbon dioxide
14. Different carrier material application to develop biofilm in trickling bed based reactor for biogas upgrading
15. Material-microbe interaction for solar power driven biochemical synthesis
16. Methanogens-electrode interaction for methane production from carbon dioxide
17. Biofilters, bioscrubbers and biotrickling filters for the clean up contaminated air
18. iocorrosion control processes and mechanisms

Sustainability aspect
19. Techno-economic implication and life cycle assessment of a bioelectrochemical processes for chemical and fuel synthesis
20. Techno-economic assessment of biofilm-based moving bed bioreactor for wastewater treatment