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  title info:
    title: Environmental biotechnology
    sub title: a biosystems approach
  name:
    name part: Vallero, Daniel A.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: ScienceDirect (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2010
    edition: 1st ed.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: xx, 742 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 29 cm.
  abstract: For more than a century, biotechnology has acted as a vital buffer between people, pollution and the environment. The field is designed to moderate, if not eliminate, the stresses we inflict upon the world's ecosystems. In order to do this effectively, a systems approach must be employed to maximize the sustainability of our efforts and improve the long term health our environment. This book will address the questions of how and why knowledge and understanding of the physical, chemical, and biological principles of the environment must be achieved for the effective development of biotechnology applications. Using a systems biology approach, Environmental Biotechnology will provide a context for researchers and practitioners in environmental science. It will serve as a complement to the useful guidebooks which provide the necessary specifications and criteria for a wide range of environmental designs and applications by providing the underlying principles for the specifications, an area which is most important to scientific researchers in this arena to develop further technologies. * Provides a systems approach to biotechnologies which includes the physical, biological, and chemical processes in context * Case studies include cutting-edge technologies such as nanobiotechnologies and green engineering * Addresses both the applications and implications of biotechnologies by following the life-cycle of a variety of established and developing biotechnologies.
  table of contents: -- Biochemodynamics: A Systems Approach to Environmental Biotechnology -- Daniel A. Vallero, Ph.D. -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Environmental Biotechnology: An Overview -- Biochemodynamics -- Assessing the Biotechnological Impacts -- Biotechnology and Bioengineering -- Discussion Box: Little Things Matter in a Chaotic World -- The Environmental Biotechnology Discipline -- Biotechnology and Society -- Risk and Reliability: Some Forethought -- Beyond Biotechnological Applications -- Terminology -- Eureka! -- Oh No! -- The Science of Environmental Biotechnology -- Boxes and Envelopes -- Review Questions -- Notes and Commentary -- Chapter 2: A Question of Balance: Using versus Abusing Biological Systems -- Environmental Biomimicry -- Engineered Systems Inspired by Biology -- Environmental Biochemodynamics -- Biophile Cycling -- Sequestration -- Carbon Sequestration in Soil -- Active Sequestration -- Nitrogen and Sulfur Biochemodynamics -- Review Questions -- Notes and Resources -- Chapter 3: Environmental Biochemodynamic Processes -- Cellular Thermodynamics -- Importance of Free Energy in Microbial Metabolism -- Dissolution -- Phase Partitioning -- Thermodynamics in Abiotic and Biotic Systems -- Volatility/Solubility/Density Relationships -- Environmental Balances -- Fugacity -- Sorption -- Volatilization -- Bioavailability -- Persistent Bioaccumulating Toxic Substances -- Discussion Box: The Inuit and Persistent Organic Pollutants -- Extrinsic Factors -- Biochemodynamic Persistence and Half-Life -- Fugacity, Z Values, and Henry's Law -- Advection -- Dispersion -- Aerodynamic and Hydrodynamic Dispersion -- Diffusion -- Overall Effect of the Fluxes, Sinks and Sources -- Biochemodynamic Transport Models -- Level 1 Model -- Level 2 Model -- Level 3 Model -- Review Questions -- Notes and Commentary -- Chapter 4: Systems -- Biotechnological Systems -- Putting Biology to Work -- Scale -- Systems Synergies: Biotechnological Analysis -- Using Bioindic…
  note: Daniel A. Vallero.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Electronic reproduction. Amsterdam : Elsevier Science & Technology, 2010. Mode of access: World Wide Web. System requirements: Web browser. Title from title screen (viewed on June 18, 2010). Access may be restricted to users at subscribing institutions.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Bioremediation
  subject:
    topic: Bioremediation
    genre: Case studies
  classification: TD192.5 .V35 2010
  classification: 628.5
  related item:
    identifier: (OCoLC)503638971
  identifier: 9780123750891
  identifier: 012375089X
  identifier: 1010935:10109231 Elsevier Science & Technology
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: OPELS
    record creation date: 100623
    record change date: 20260609193606.4
    record identifier: in00002601396
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng