Environmental Biotechnology

Hans-Joachim Jördening gained his chemistry degree in 1984, his doctorate three years later and his lecturing qualification in 2000. He has been at the TU Brunswick since 1987, heading the Department of Microbiology and Wastewater Technology from 1992 to 1997. His research interests include biological methods of wastewater purification, the enzymatic modification of saccharides, and modeling biocatalytic processes.
 
Josef Winter earned his doctorate in 1974, and was a post-doc at MIT before gaining his lecturing qualification in 1980. He has been Professor of Waste Water Management and head of the Institute of Biology for Biological Engineering and Biotechnology of Wastewater Treatment at the TU Karlsruhe since 1993. His research includes physiology of aerobic and anaerobic degradation, wastewater and waste treatment processes, and soil remediation.

"Environmental Biotechnology" bietet dem Leser einen vertiefenden Einblick in die komplexen Prozesse umweltbiotechnologischer Verfahren und enthält die dazu einschlägigen biologischen, chemischen und ingenieurwissenschaftlichen Grundlagen für die Fortentwicklung wirkungsvoller Verfahren.
 
Reinhaltung, Schutz und Säuberung von Wasser, Boden und Luft stellen eine große Herausforderung vor allem in den stark industrialisierten Ländern dar. Das Buch umfasst alle vier großen Gebiete der Umweltbiotechnologie: Wastewater Treatment, Soil Treatment, Solid Waste Treatment, Waste Gas Treatment. Jedem dieser vier Bereiche sind umfassende Kapitel gewidmet, die sich sowohl mit den mikrobiologischen als auch mit verfahrenstechnischen Aspekten beschäftigen.
 
Mit diesem Buch hält der Leser in konzentrierter Form das in den höchst erfolgreichen Bänden 11a bis 11c der "Biotechnology"-Reihe zusammengetragene Wissen in Händen.

This book devotes a detailed chapter to each of the four main areas of environmental biotechnology - wastewater treatment, soil treatment, solid waste treatment and waste gas treatment - dealing with both the microbiological and process engineering aspects.

Introduction (Jördening, Winter)
 
PART I WASTEWATER TREATMENT
Bacterial Metabolism in Wastewater Treatment Systems (Gallert, Winter)
Industrial Wastewater Sources and Treatment Strategies (Rosenwinkel)
Activated Sludge Process, Nitrification, Denitrification (Kayser)
Modelling of Aerobic Waste Water Treatment Processes (Henze)
Bioreactors for Anaerobic Wastewater Treatment (Jördening)
Modelling of Biogas Reactors (Märkl)
 
PART II SOIL TREATMENT
Aerobic Degradation by Microorganisms (Fritsche, Hofrichter)
Principles of Anaerobic Degradation of Organic Compounds (Schink)
Thermal Processes, Scrubbing/Extraction, Bioremediation and Disposal (Koning)
Bioremediation with Heap Technique (Schulz-Behrendt)
Bioreactors (Kleijntjens, Luyben)
In Situ Remediation (Held, Dörr)
 
PART III SOLID WASTE TREATMENT
Composting of Plant Residues and Waste Plant Materials (Schuchardt)
Anaerobic Fermentation of Wet or Semi-Dry Garbage Waste Fractions (Rilling)
Landfill Systems, Sanitary Landfilling of Solid Wastes - Long-Term Problems with Leachate (Heyer, Stegmann)
Sanitary Landfills - Long-Term Stability and Environmental Implications (Switzenbaum)
 
PART IV WASTE GAS TREATMENT
Process Engineering of Biological Waste Gas Purification
Commercial Applications of Biological Waste Gas Purification (Chitwood, Devinny)
Perspectives of Waste, Wastewater Off-Gas and Soil Treatment (Gallert, Winter)
 
Index