Biological Treatment Technologies for Petroleum Hydrocarbon Contaminated Environment

This book summarizes diverse biological treatment technologies employed in the remediation of hazardous petroleum hydrocarbon-contaminated sites. It explains wide range of approaches, including bioremediation, biostimulation, bioaugmentation, bioattenuation, bioventing, biosparging, phytoremediation, mycoremediation, Phycoremediation, electrobioremediation, nano-remediation, trichoremediation and more. It describes management of hydrocarbon waste through circular economy approaches and the successful degradation of contaminant sites using a zero-waste approach.

• Discusses the past, present and future of biological remedies for treatment of hydrocarbon pollutants
• Introduces petroleum hydrocarbons, ecotoxicity, and green remediation approaches applicable to contaminated and wastewater streams
• Covers utilization of hydrocarbon waste- contaminated areas for economic growth and novel opportunities
• Include reports and case studies on environmental hydrocarbon contaminants and organic amendments for strategically recovery the contaminated sites
• Provides a clear understanding of the sustainable, greener technology approaches for degradation of hydrocarbon contamination from different sites

This book is aimed at researchers, professionals and graduate students in chemical, environmental, biochemical and bioengineering.