Part I Air and Water Pollution
1 Environmental Fate of Chiral Pharmaceuticals:
Determination, Degradation and Toxicity ...................... 3
Ana R. Ribeiro, Paula M.L. Castro, and Maria Elizabeth
Tiritan
2 Pollutant-Induced Decay of Building Materials ............... 47
Jorge Sanjurjo-Sánchez and Carlos Alves
3 Novel Bioreactors for Waste Gas Treatment .................. 121
Eldon R. Rene, Maria Montes, Maria C. Veiga, and Christian
Kennes
4 Extraction Procedures for Organic Pollutants
Determination in Water ..................................... 171
N. Etxebarria, P. Navarro, A. Prieto, M. Olivares,
A. Usobiaga, L.A. Fernández, and Olatz Zuloaga
5 Oxidation of Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins
by Chlorine Dioxide. Implications for Water Treatment ...... 237
Virender K. Sharma and Mary Sohn
6 Biodegradation of Azo Dyes from Wastewater ................. 255
Pijush Kanti Mondal and Brajesh Chauhan
7 Air Quality Monitoring with Lichens in India. Heavy
Metals and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons ................ 277
Vertika Shukla and D.K. Upreti
Part II Remediation
8 Electrochemical Remediation Technologies
for Waters Contaminated by Pharmaceutical Residues ......... 297
Enric Brillas and Ignasi Sirés
9 Biogas Technologies and Cleaning Techniques ................ 347
M. Estefanía López, Eldon R. Rene, María C. Veiga, and
Christian Kennes
10 Heavy Metals: Toxicity and Removal by Biosorption .......... 379
Ackmez Mudhoo, Vinod Kumar Garg, and Shaobin Wang
11 Fe-Mn Concretions and Nodules to Sequester Heavy Metals
in Soils ................................................... 443
Dionisios Gasparatos
12 Bioremediation of Arsenic in Contaminated Terrestrial and
Aquatic Environments ....................................... 475
Beata B. Dabrowska, Meththika Vithanage, K.R. Gunaratna,
Aran B. Mukherjee, and Prosun Bhattacharya
13 Microbial Pathogen Inactivation Using Heterogeneous
Photocatalysis ............................................. 511
Mohammad Abbas Mahmood, Sunandan Baruah, Anil Kumar Anal,
and Joydeep Dutta
Index ......................................................... 543
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