Environmental Biotechnology

Introduction (Jördening, Winter)

PART I WASTEWATER TREATMENT
Bacterial Metabolism in Wastewater Treatment Systems (Gallert, Winter)
Industrial Wastewater Sources and Treatment Strategies (Rosenwinkel)
Activated Sludge Process, Nitrification, Denitrification (Kayser)
Modelling of Aerobic Waste Water Treatment Processes (Henze)
Bioreactors for Anaerobic Wastewater Treatment (Jördening)
Modelling of Biogas Reactors (Märkl)

PART II SOIL TREATMENT
Aerobic Degradation by Microorganisms (Fritsche, Hofrichter)
Principles of Anaerobic Degradation of Organic Compounds (Schink)
Thermal Processes, Scrubbing/Extraction, Bioremediation and Disposal (Koning)
Bioremediation with Heap Technique (Schulz-Behrendt)
Bioreactors (Kleijntjens, Luyben)
In Situ Remediation (Held, Dörr)

PART III SOLID WASTE TREATMENT
Composting of Plant Residues and Waste Plant Materials (Schuchardt)
Anaerobic Fermentation of Wet or Semi-Dry Garbage Waste Fractions (Rilling)
Landfill Systems, Sanitary Landfilling of Solid Wastes - Long-Term Problems with Leachate (Heyer, Stegmann)
Sanitary Landfills - Long-Term Stability and Environmental Implications (Switzenbaum)

PART IV WASTE GAS TREATMENT
Process Engineering of Biological Waste Gas Purification
Commercial Applications of Biological Waste Gas Purification (Chitwood, Devinny)
Perspectives of Waste, Wastewater Off-Gas and Soil Treatment (Gallert, Winter)

Index

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CHOICE

Hans-Joachim Jördening gained his chemistry degree in 1984, his doctorate three years later and his lecturing qualification in 2000. He has been at the TU Brunswick since 1987, heading the Department of Microbiology and Wastewater Technology from 1992 to 1997. His research interests include biological methods of wastewater purification, the enzymatic modification of saccharides, and modeling biocatalytic processes.

Josef Winter earned his doctorate in 1974, and was a post-doc at MIT before gaining his lecturing qualification in 1980. He has been Professor of Waste Water Management and head of the Institute of Biology for Biological Engineering and Biotechnology of Wastewater Treatment at the TU Karlsruhe since 1993. His research includes physiology of aerobic and anaerobic degradation, wastewater and waste treatment processes, and soil remediation.

H.-J. Jördening, Institute for Technical Chemistry, Technical University Braunschweig, Germany; J. Winter, University Karlsruhe, Germany