Biotechnology for Waste Management and Site Restoration Book

	Foreword
	Introduction
	Biotechnology: technical aspects	3
	The social, economic, business, and policy dimensions of bioremediation techniques	9
	Biotechnology of radioactive wastes: a general overview	19
	The interface between scientific research education and training	29
	Environmental biotechnology in research and education	33
	Radioactive pollution	43
	Interaction mechanisms between micro-organisms and radionuclides	43
	Biodepollution of soils contaminated by radioelements	45
	Bioleaching of radioelements	46
	Biosorption of radioelements	48
	Physico-chemical characterization of particle fallout from a damaged nuclear reactor-consequences for remediation procedures	51
	Radioecological aspects on the interaction of radionuclides and heavy metals with biomass: methods for speciation and structural information	55
	The possibility for microbially-influenced degradation of cement solidified low-level radioactive waste forms	61
	Removal of heavy metal ions: Application of Flotation and Biosorption	71
	Heavy metal pollution	85
	Bioleaching of soils contaminated by heavy metals	86
	Biosorption of heavy metals by fungal fermentation residues	89
	Complex treatment of drainage from tailing pond of hydrometallurgical plant processed uranium ore	99
	Iron oxidation of sulfuric water pickling liquors by Thiobacillus ferrooxidans and crystallisation of ferric and ammonium sulphates	107
	Utilisation of chitin-chitosan biosorbents for environmental deactivation and radioactive waste management	119
	Aspects of the production of bio- and phyto-sorbents for radionuclides and heavy metals	133
	Physico-chemical and adsorption properties of bio-sorbents and mechanisms of their interaction with radionuclides: The electron structure of the complexes of Cs, Sr, Y, Pu ions with biosorbents containing chitin	135
	Normative aspects : biosorption: is it necessary to standardize a protocol for comparing biosorbents?	141
	Biological gas treatment: general aspects	149
	Biotechnologies for remediation of organic pollution	161
	Introduction	170
	Biodegradability of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons	170
	Biological denitrification applied in the treatment of high nitrate waste water	172
	Bioremediation of pentachlorophenol (pcp) by two filamentous fungi in submerged culture	173
	Efficient screening for microbial and enzymatic degradation of halogenated compounds	175
	The increase of biological treatment efficiency in petroleum refineries and petrochemical wastewaters by acclimated microorganisms	181
	Degradation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons by microorganisms from contaminated soil	187
	Application of biotechnologies in the management of post-accidental wastes	195
	Radiological characterization of the environmental contamination of the former Olen radium extraction plant - possibilities for remediation	205
	Prospect of alternatives in agro-chemical site remediation	213
	Behaviour of radionuclides and heavy metals in soils and possibility of elimination of their negative impact	221
	Biotechnological approaches to the restoration of areas contaminated by radioactivity	225
	List of Contributors	237
	List of Participants	241
	Index	245