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Facing Lethal Impacts of Industrialization via Green and Sustainable Microbial Removal of Hazardous Pollutants and Nanobioremediation

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Industrialization exert a negative impact to the surrounding environment by causing pollution to soil, air, and water supplies in addition to its hazardous effect on human health because of the generated toxic by-products. Environment became polluted with heavy metals, pathogenic microorganisms, toxic industrial effluents, pharmaceutical compounds, and dyestuffs. Currently, several strategies have been employed for the removal of these hazardous substances involving physical and chemical technologies. Yet, these technologies have high operation costs as well as high consumption of energy and chemicals. Hence, development of green, low-cost, and sustainable treatment procedures is the need of the hour. Employing biological entities such as fungal, bacterial, and algal isolates is an interesting bioremediation approach which has proved its high efficacy. This bio-process is affected by diverse biotic and abiotic parameters. This chapter reviews the most prevailing treatment methodologies employed for removing heavy metals and other contaminants such as physical, chemical, physiochemical, and biological methodologies. It mainly focuses on bioremediation, its mechanism, and the employment of nanotechnology in bioremediation as an emerging strategy to reduce the hazardous effects of toxic pollutants.

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Abbreviations

4-AP:

4-Aminophenol

4-NP:

4-Nitrophenol

AFM:

Atomic force microscope

AgNPs:

Silver nanoparticles

AOP:

Advanced oxidation process

AuNPs:

Gold nanoparticles

AYR:

Alizarin Yellow R

BET:

Brunauer-Emmett-Teller

CLC:

Cnidium monnieri (L.) Cuss

CMC:

Carboxymethyl cellulose

CNTs:

Carbon nanotubes

CuNPs:

Copper nanoparticles

CuO NPs:

Copper oxide nanoparticles

DNA:

Deoxyribonucleic acid

DTPA:

Diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid

EDTA:

Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid

EDX:

Energy dispersive X-ray

Eh:

Redox potential

EPA:

Environmental protection agency

FESEM:

Field emission scanning electron microscopy

IONPs:

Iron oxide nanoparticles

MISFNPs:

Magnetic inverse spinel iron oxide nanoparticles

MNMs:

Magnetic nanomaterials

MNPs:

Magnetic nanoparticles

MWCNTs:

Multi-walled carbon nanotubes

NB:

Nile blue

NBR:

Nanobioremediation

nm:

Nanometer

NMs:

Nanomaterials

NPs:

Nanoparticles

PCBs:

Polyvinyl biphenyls

PRB:

Permeable reactive barriers

QDs:

Quantum dots

RhB:

Rhodamine B

RO:

Reverse osmosis

RY160:

Reactive Yellow 160

SWCNTs:

Single-walled carbon nanotubes

TCE:

Tetrachloroethylene

TEM:

Transmission electron microscopy

UV/Vis:

Ultraviolet-visible

VSM:

Vibrating sample magnetometry

WHO:

World Health Organization

XPS:

X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy

XRD:

X-ray diffraction

ZVI NPs:

Zerovalent iron nanoparticles

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Omran, B.A. (2021). Facing Lethal Impacts of Industrialization via Green and Sustainable Microbial Removal of Hazardous Pollutants and Nanobioremediation. In: Shah, M.P. (eds) Removal of Emerging Contaminants Through Microbial Processes. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5901-3_7

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