New Insight into the Roles of Microorganisms in Municipal and Environmental Engineering Technologies/Systems

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New Insight into the Roles of Microorganisms in Municipal and Environmental Engineering Technologies/Systems is written by Xiaochen Chen and published by Frontiers Media SA. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 283254312X (ISBN 10) and 9782832543122 (ISBN 13).

Both municipal engineering and environmental engineering are disciplines aimed at promoting human welfare. The former focuses on establishing life-supporting public infrastructure, while the latter emphasizes treatment and restoration of polluted environment. Typically, the engineers deal with various contaminants (e.g., nutrients, heavy metals and organic contaminants) existing in different environmental media (e.g., soils, water sources, sewage and solid wastes). So far, plenty of technologies and engineering systems have been developed in which microorganisms play important parts. In some cases, microorganisms play a leading role, as their metabolism influences the degradation and transformation of the contaminants. In other cases, as a part of the target environments, microbial communities are forced to change, which reflects the performance of the applied technologies/systems or their impacts on the health of ecosystems and living organisms.