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Trends in microbial degradation and bioremediation of emerging contaminants

  • Bhuvaneswari Meganathan , Thirumalaisamy Rathinavel EMAIL logo and Suriyaprabha Rangaraj
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From the journal Physical Sciences Reviews Volume 8 Issue 9

Abstract

Modernization and modern ways of living demands more improved products from pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, and food processing industries. Moreover, industries like pesticides, fertilizers, dyeing, paints, detergent etc., also needs improvised products as per demand. As the new product emerges, the pollutants from these industries also constitute new type of danger to the environment and serious health risks to the living organisms. These emerging contaminants (ECs) are from different category of sources such as personal care products (PCPs), pharmaceuticals (Phcs), endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs), etc. These ECs can easily escape from the conventional water treatment and eventually get discharged in to the surface water and thus enters in to the ground water, soil, sediments, and also into the oceans. When these contaminants emerge we also require progress in tremendous process for preventing these hazardous chemicals by effective removal and treatment. For the past 50 years, both developed and developing countries are working on this treatment process and found that Microbial degradation and bioremediation are very useful for effective treatment to prevent their emissions. This treatment can be designed for any sort of ECs since the microbial members are so versatile to redesign their metabolic pathways when subject to exposure. However, implementing bioremediation is not alone efficient to degrade ECs and hence, combination of bioremediation, nanotechnology and physical treatment method will also provide sustainable, potent and fast degradation process. In this Book Chapter, we discuss in detail about the ECs, sources of microbial degradation process and its usefulness in the bioremediation of these ECs.

Keywords: bioremediation; degradation; emerging contaminants; microbial; treatment
Corresponding author: Thirumalaisamy Rathinavel, Department of Biotechnology, Sona College of Arts and Science, Salem 636 005, India, E-mail:

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Keywords for this article
bioremediation; degradation; emerging contaminants; microbial; treatment

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