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The role of biotechnology
on the treatment of wastes
Hanife Buyukgungor* and Levent Gurel
Ondokuz
Mayis University, Engineering Faculty, Environmental
Engineering Department, TR55139 Kurupelit, Samsun, Turkiye.
*Corresponding author.
E-mail:
hbuyukg@omu.edu.tr.
Tel.: 00 90 362 312 19 19/1220.
Fax: 00
90 362 457 60 35.
Accepted
10 August, 2009 |
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The
biological processes improving fast are shown among the
future technologies. In these processes which biological
materials are used as degraders, raw wastes are processed to
remove the contaminants in them. Biotechnological processes
are used for wastewater treatment, gas treatment and
disposal of solid wastes in environmental engineering. Also,
these processes can be utilized for the production of biogas
and hydrogen as new energy resources. For preventing
environmental pollution in environmental engineering,
activated sludge process, trickling filters, biotrickling
filters, oxidation ponds, anaerobic treatment, composting
units and biogas reactors are used extensively among the
waste treatment technologies. In this review paper, the role
of biotechnology on waste treatment was assessed and several
treatment methods were investigated.
Key
words:
Biotechnology, environmental pollution, wastes, biological
treatment, biological reactors. |
