Environmental Biotreatment Technologies for Air, Water, Soil, and Wastes

This book examines the chemicals most commonly encountered in the major media and thoroughly reviews 26 principal biological technologies available for their treatment. Using the author's at-a-glance chart, readers can quickly determine if a method would work in their processes. Biotreatment technologies covered include activated sludge processes, lagoons and ponds, wetlands, anaerobic wastewater treatment and digestion, bioleaching, phytoremediation, land-farming, slurry reactors, and trickling filters.

Catherine N. Mulligan, Ph.D., is a chemical and civil engineer with over a decade of experience in biotreatment research. Formerly with the National Research Council of Canada's Biotechnology Research Institute, she currently works as a senior research engineer at SNC Research Corp. and as a professor at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. She holds memberships with the Air and Waste Management Association, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the Canadian Society of Chemical Engineering, the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering, and the Order of Engineers of Quebec