Introduction to mineral biotechnology

Type of study	Bachelor
Language of instruction	English
Code	546-0851/02
Abbreviation	UdMB
Course title	Introduction to mineral biotechnology
Credits	3
Coordinating department	Department of Environmental Engineering
Course coordinator	doc. Ing. Iva Janáková, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Introduction. General characteristics of biodegradation and biological removal of pollutants from the environment.
2. Microbial communities in the bioprocesses and their specificities.
3. Biotechnologies in the processing and treatment of mineral resources – basic methods and principles.
4. Biotechnologies in the processing and treatment of mineral resources – processing of different ore and non-ore materials.
5. Contaminants in the environment – the most widespread representatives, classification (organic, inorganic), their properties and their behaviour in the environment, toxicity.
6.Biotechnologies and the environment – basic techniques, technologies and principles of pollutant removal.
7. Biotechnologies and the environment – biodegradation of crude oil and its derivatives, and biofuels.
8. Biotechnologies and the environment – biodegradation of hydrocarbons.
9. Biotechnologies and the environment - waste disposal.
10. Biotechnologies in the food industry and in the pharmaceutical industry.
11. Biotechnologies applied in wastewater treatment.
12. Biotechnologies in the building industry.
13. Biotechnologies in other industrial branches

Literature

FEČKO, Peter, Mária KUŠNIEROVÁ, Vladimír ČABLÍK a Iva PEČTOVÁ. Environmental biotechnology. Ostrava: VŠB - Technical University of Ostrava, 2006. ISBN 80-248-1090-5.
KOTRBA, Pavel, Martina MACKOVÁ a Tomáš MACEK, ed. Microbial biosorption of metals. Dordrecht: Springer, 2011. ISBN 978-94-007-0442-8

SINGH, Shree N. a R. D. TRIPATHI. Environmental bioremediation technologies. New York: Springer, 2007. ISBN 978-35-40347903.
GLAZER, Alexander N. a Hiroshi NIKAIDO. Microbial biotechnology: Fundamentals of applied microbiology. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-521-84210-5.

Advised literature

BARNUM, Susan R. Biotechnology: An introduction. Belmont: Thomson Brooks/Cole, 2005. ISBN 0-534-49296-7
DÍAZ, Eduardo, ed. Microbial biodegradation: genomics and molecular biology. Norfolk: Caister Academic Press, c2008. ISBN 978-1-904455-17-2
ZAJKOV, Gennadij Jefremovič, ed. Research progress in biotechnology. New York: Nova Biomedical Books, 2008. ISBN 978-1-60456-000-8
CHEN, Qizhi a George THOUAS. Biomaterials: a basic introduction. Boca Raton: CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015. .

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