Environmental biotechnology : concepts and applications /edited by Hans-Joachim Jordening and Josef Winter. -- WIley-Vch Verlag GmbH & Co, 2005. -- (58.181/E61n)

Contents

Contents

1.Bacterial Metabolism in Wastewater Treatment Systems  1

2.Industrial Wastewater Spirces amd Treat,emt Strategoes  49

3.Activated Sludge Process  79

4.Modeling of Aerobic Wastewater Treatment Processes  121

5.High-rate Anaerobic Wastewater Treatment  135

6.Modeling of Biogas Reactors  163

7.Aerobic Degradation of Recalcitrant Organic Compounds by Microorganisms  203.

8.Principles of Anaerobic Degradation of Organic Compounds  229

9.Soil Remediation and Disposal  259

10.Bioremediation by the Heap Technique  275

11.Bioreactors  287

12.In-situ Remediation  311

13.Composting of Organic Waste  33

14.Anaerobic Fermentation of Wet and Semidry Garbage Waste Fractions  355

15.Landfill Systems, Sanitary Landfilling of Solid Wastes, and Long-term Problems with leachate  375

16.Sanitary Landfills: Long-term Stability and Envionmental Implications  395

17.Procees Engineering of Biological Waste Gas Purification  409

18.Commercial Applications of Biological Waste Gas Purification  427

19.Perspectives of Wastewater, Waste, Off-gas and Soil Treatment  439