BIOCHEMICAL ECOLOGY OF WATER POLLUTION / Patrick R. Dugan
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| | | | | | BIOCHEMICAL ECOLOGY OF WATER POLLUTION. - New York , 1972. | | ix, 159 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. | | Part I. The water pollution problem. Significance of pollution -- Pollutional concerns, causes, and concepts. Disease production ; Organic pollutants ; Mineral pollutants ; Pollution by recalcitrant molecules ; Heat pollution -- Water in perspective to population and pollution. Hydrologic cycle, water availability, and use ; Population growth and its by-products -- Part II. Biochemical considerations. Biochemical aspects of water pollution ; Ecological concepts. Symbiosis -- Water, its properties, biochemistry, and biological implications. Water chemistry ; Bound water ; Biological implications of bound water ; Solutions, suspensions, and colloids ; Surfaces and adsorption -- Degradation of organic pollutants. Hydrolysis of polysaccharides ; Hydrolysis of proteins ; Hydrolysis of fats ; Carbohydrate dissimilation ; Amino acid dissimilation ; Oxidation of fatty acids and alcohols -- Hydrocarbon oxidation. General aspects ; n-alkanes ; Alkenes ; Cycloalkanes ; Aromatics ; Methand, ethane, and methanol oxidation -- Recalcitrant molecules. Isoalkanes ; Synthetic anionic detergents ; Hydrocarbon derivatives -- Cycling of nutrients. Cycling of oxygen, hydrogen, and phosphorus ; Cycling of carbon ; Cycling of nitrogen ; Cycling of sulfur -- Part III. Major ecological problems. Biochemistry of acid mine drainage. Production of acid. The role of the thiobacillus-ferrobacillus group of bacteria in the formation of acid mine drainage ; Mechanism of action of the microbiological production of acid from reduced iron and sulfur compounds ; Consideration of mechanisms of pyrite oxidation ; Biological means of treatment and abatement -- Pollution and accelerated eutrophication of lakes. Lake sediment formation. | | ISBN 0306305402. | | | | 1. Biological chemistry 2. Water - Pollution 3. Ecology.I. Title | | | Library : UiTM Shah Alam |
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