Green Materials for Energy, Products and Depollution

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Biodiesel from Microalgal Oil Extraction

   • Ana L. Gonçalves, José C. M. Pires, Manuel Simões

   Pages 1-25

3. Electrochemistry and Water Pollution

   • Subramanyan Vasudevan, Mehmet A. Oturan

   Pages 27-68

4. Heterogeneous Photocatalysis for Pharmaceutical Wastewater Treatment

   • Devagi Kanakaraju, Beverley D. Glass, Michael Oelgemöller

   Pages 69-133

5. Water Depollution Using Ferrites Photocatalysts

   • Virender K. Sharma, Chun He, Ruey-an Doong, Dionysios D. Dionysiou

   Pages 135-150

6. Bioindicators of Toxic Metals

   • Slavka Stankovic, Ana R. Stankovic

   Pages 151-228

7. Natural Dyes and Antimicrobials for Textiles

   • Masoud B. Kasiri, Siyamak Safapour

   Pages 229-286

8. Surfactants in Agriculture

   • Mariano J. L. Castro, Carlos Ojeda, Alicia Fernández Cirelli

   Pages 287-334

9. Cheap Materials to Clean Heavy Metal Polluted Waters

   • Pei-Sin Keng, Siew-Ling Lee, Sie-Tiong Ha, Yung-Tse Hung, Siew-Teng Ong

   Pages 335-414

10. Water Quality Monitoring by Aquatic Bryophytes

    • Gana Gecheva, Lilyana Yurukova

    Pages 415-448

11. Halogenated PAH Contamination in Urban Soils

    • Takeshi Ohura, Teru Yamamoto, Kazuo Higashino, Yuko Sasaki

    Pages 449-466

12. Back Matter

    Pages 467-476

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Using renewable fuels and materials, drinking clean water and food, and breathing safe air are major issues for a sustainable world. This book reviews biodiesel production from microalgae, a promising energy source that does not compete with food production. Several advanced techniques to clean polluted waters, such as electrochemistry, ferrites photocatalysis and low-cost filtration are presented. Chapters also show various living organisms used as bioindicators of toxic metals. Decreasing ecotoxicity of pesticides using suitable surfactants is reviewed. The last chapter evidences new pollutants in urban soils, halogenated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.​

• Electrochemical photocatalytical water treatment
• Microalgae biofuel
• Surfactants and pesticide toxicity
• Toxic metal bioindicators
• Urban soil PAH
• water quality and water pollution
• climate change

• Agroécologie, UMR, Dijon, France

  Eric Lichtfouse

• Institute of Geology and Geochemistry of, RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

  Jan Schwarzbauer

• ICPEES, Université de Lorraine, Saint-Avold, France

  Didier Robert

Dr. Eric Lichtfouse is Editor of scholarly journals and series in environmental chemistry and agriculture. He is heading publication assistance services and teaching scientific writing in Europe and the USA. He has done research in organic geochemistry, soil carbon dynamics and phytoremediation. Dr. Jan Schwarzbauer is Editor of the journal 'Environmental Earth Sciences ' and Subject Editor of 'Journal of Soils and Sediments'. After studying chemistry at the University of Hamburg, he is working since 1998 at the RWTH Aachen University leading as full professor the group 'Enviromental Organic Geochemistry'. Dr. Didier Robert is professor in organic chemistry and green chemistry at the University Paul Verlaine-Metz (France). He is associate editor of the Journal of Photocatalysis Sciences and its research activities are devoted to the decontamination of air and water by photochemical processes, especially by photocatalysis. He is also editor of the biannual magazine "UniversCity" published by UPV-Metz, dedicated to Cultures and Sciences.

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