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Environmental protection and resource recovery are two crucial issues facing our society in the 21st century. Anaerobic biotechnology has become widely accepted by the wastewater industry as the better alternative to the more conventional but costly aerobic process and tens of thousands of full-scale facilities using this technology have been installed worldwide in the past two decades.Anaerobic Biotechnology is the sequel to the well-received Environmental Anaerobic Technology: Applications and New Developments (2010) and compiles developments over the past five years. This volume contains contributions from 48 renowned experts from across the world, including Gatze Lettinga, laureate of the 2007 Tyler Prize and the 2009 Lee Kuan Yew Water Prize, and Perry McCarty, whose pioneering work laid the foundations for today's anaerobic biotechnology. This book is ideal for engineers and scientists working in the field, as well as decision-makers on energy and environmental policies.

Sewage --- Bioremediation. --- Purification --- Anaerobic treatment. --- Agrotechnology and Food Sciences. Engineering --- Environmental Engineering --- Bioremediation

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This book presents a Two-Stage Anaerobic Digestion (TSAD) technique for producing hydrogen and methane, following a step-by-step approach in order to guide readers through the experimental verification of the related hypothesis. In the first stage of AD, the reaction conditions are optimized to obtain the maximum amount of hydrogen, while in the second the liquid residue from the first phase is used as a substrate to produce fuel-methane. AD has traditionally been used to reduce the organic content of waste; this results in a biogas that is primarily constituted of CH4 and CO2. Over the last few decades, the conversion of organic matter into hydrogen by means of AD and selecting Hydrogen Producing Bacteria (HPB) has matured into a viable and sustainable technology among the pallet of H2 generation technologies. The combined bio-production of hydrogen and methane from Organic Waste Materials (OWM) is considered to be an ideal way of utilizing waste, and can increase energy efficiency (the substrate Heat Value converted into H2 and CH4 fuel) to roughly 80%, since the energy efficiency of H2-production alone (15%) is not energetically competitive. The two gas streams can be used either separately or in combination (Hytane®), be supplied as civilian gas or used for transportation purposes. All the aspects of this sustainable technology are taken into account, from the basic biochemical implications to engineering aspects, establishing the design criteria and the scale-up procedures for full-scale application. The sustainability of the TSAD method is assessed by applying EROI (Energy Return On Investment) and EPT (Energy Payback Time) criteria, and both the general approach and application to the field of Anaerobic Digestion are illustrated.  .

Energy. --- Renewable and Green Energy. --- Biochemical Engineering. --- Environmental Science and Engineering. --- Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology. --- Biochemical engineering. --- Renewable energy sources. --- Biotechnology. --- Génie biochimique --- Energies renouvelables --- Biotechnologie --- Mechanical Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Mechanical Engineering - General --- Sewage --- Refuse and refuse disposal --- Green chemistry. --- Purification --- Anaerobic treatment. --- Biodegradation. --- Environmental chemistry --- Sustainable chemistry --- Anaerobic digestion (Sewage purification) --- Industrial applications --- Renewable energy resources. --- Environmental sciences. --- Alternate energy sources. --- Green energy industries. --- Environmental engineering. --- Chemical engineering --- Chemistry, Technical --- Sustainable engineering --- Bioremediation --- Sewage sludge digestion --- Upflow anaerobic sludge blanket reactors --- Biological treatment --- Alternate energy sources --- Alternative energy sources --- Energy sources, Renewable --- Sustainable energy sources --- Power resources --- Renewable natural resources --- Agriculture and energy --- Genetic engineering --- Bio-process engineering --- Bioprocess engineering --- Biochemistry --- Biotechnology --- Environmental control --- Environmental effects --- Environmental stresses --- Engineering --- Environmental health --- Environmental protection --- Pollution --- Environmental science --- Science

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This Brief will review the methods that are currently available for the detection, isolation, and typing of pathogenic E. coli with a particular focus on foodborne diseases caused by the Shiga toxigenic E. coli group, which have been implicated in a number of significant outbreaks in recent years. Pathogenic forms of E. coli can cause a variety of diarrheal diseases in hosts due to the presence of specific colonization and virulence factors, and pathogenicity-associated genes, which are generally not present in other E. coli. Six pathotypes of pathogenic E. coli are recognized (Shiga toxigenic E. coli, Enteropathogenic E. coli, Enterotoxigenic E. coli, Enteroinvasive E. coli, Enteroaggregative E. coli and Diffusely Adherent E. coli) and certain strains among these groups are major public health concerns due to the severity of disease that they can cause. Methods to detect and isolate these pathogens from a variety of sources are constantly evolving. In addition, the accumulation of knowledge on these pathogens allows for improved intervention strategies.

Chemistry. --- Food Science. --- Bacteriology. --- Applied Microbiology. --- Microbiology. --- Food science. --- Chimie --- Microbiologie --- Bactériologie --- Escherichia coli --- Investigative Techniques --- Information Science --- Escherichia --- Bacteriological Techniques --- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment --- Microbiological Techniques --- Enterobacteriaceae --- Clinical Laboratory Techniques --- Gram-Negative Facultatively Anaerobic Rods --- Gram-Negative Bacteria --- Bacteria --- Organisms --- Methods --- Bacterial Typing Techniques --- Classification --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Biomedical Engineering --- Microbiology --- Escherichia coli. --- Pathogenic bacteria. --- Medical bacteriology --- Technique. --- Bacteria, Pathogenic --- Disease germs --- E. coli (Bacterium) --- Food --- Biotechnology. --- Pathogenic microorganisms --- Bacterial diseases --- Microbial biology --- Biology --- Microorganisms --- Science --- Food—Biotechnology.