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Biotechnology in China II

Part of the book series: Advances in Biochemical Engineering / Biotechnology ((ABE,volume 122))

Abstract

Environmental biotechnology has emerged as an important measure to tackle the environmental pollution as China experiences great economic success. Over the past decade, much emphasis has been paid to the following fields in environmental biotechnology: microbial degradation of toxic and organic chemicals, bio-treatment of wastewater, waste recycling. The Chinese researchers have done a lot of work to understand the natural degradation processes for organic and toxic compounds and finally to clean these compounds from polluted environments. For the treatment of wastewater, many new processes were proposed and optimized to meet the more strict effluent standards in China. Finally, more and more attention has been paid to the reuse of discharged wastes. In this chapter we review the development in the above fields.

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We are grateful for the help from Mr. L Xie, Mr. P Fang, Mr. YQ Le and Mr. JW Jia at Tongji University for writing the manuscript. The research work at Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences is supported by National Natural Science Foundation (30730002, 30725001). The research work at Jiangnan University is supported by the Major State Basic Research Development Program of China (2007CB714306) and National High Technology Program of China (2006AA06Z315).

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    Shuang Jiang Liu, Lei Liu, Muhammad Tausif Chaudhry, Lei Wang, Ying Guang Chen, Qi Zhou, He Liu & Jian Chen

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    Lei Wang, Ying Guang Chen & Qi Zhou

  3. Key Lab of Industrial Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, 214122, China

    He Liu & Jian Chen

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Liu, S.J. et al. (2009). Environmental Biotechnology in China. In: Tsao, G., Ouyang, P., Chen, J. (eds) Biotechnology in China II. Advances in Biochemical Engineering / Biotechnology, vol 122. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/10_2008_35

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