ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY

Paper Code: 
BTE 425 A
Credits: 
5
Contact Hours: 
75
Objective: 

Course Outcomes (COs):

 

          Course Outcomes

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

 
 

Upon completion of the course the learner will:

CO 103  A: Relate the role of microbes in mitigating environment pollution.

CO 104 A: Compare and contrast various solid and liquid waste management methods

CO 105 A: Articulate major issues in environmental degradation and their alternatives

CO  106 A: Solve problems of environment using microbial and biotechnological intervention

CO  107  A: Acquaint with legal concerns of Bioresources

Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Tutorials, Reading assignments

 

Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Solving problems in tutorials, Assignments, Presentation

  
 

 

 

15.00
Unit I: 
Water as natural Resources and it’s management
  • Water: Natural (scarce) resource and its management, sources of water pollution and biological treatment processes (domestic sewage and industrial effluent) and their microbiology. Aerobic Processes: Oxidation pools, Rotating Biological Discs, Rotating Drums, Anaerobic Processes: Anaerobic digestion, Anaerobic filter, upflow anaerobic sludge blanket reactors, Advanced treatment technology – Methanogenesis, Methanogenic, acetogenic and fermentative bacteria – technical process and conditions.

 

15.00
Unit II: 
Solid as natural resources and it’s management
  • Solid wastes: Sources and management (composting, vermiculture and Methane production), Bioremediation and Biorestoration of contaminated soils and wasteland. Hazardous wastes- source management and safety. Biopesticides in Integrated Pest Management.

 

 

20.00
Unit III: 
Biodegradation of Xenobiotics
  • Biodegradation of xenobiotics in environment – Organisms involved in degradation of chlorinated hydrocarbons, substituted simple aromatic compounds, polyaromatic hydrocarbons, pesticides, surfactants and microbial treatment of oil pollution.

 

15.00
Unit IV: 
Environmental Genetics
  • Degradative plasmids, release of genetically engineered microbes in environment. Global environmental Problems: UV- B and Ozone depletion, Green House Effect and acid rain, their effects and biotechnological approaches for management, Methodology for environmental management- the problem solving approach and it’s limitations.

 

 

10.00
Unit V: 
Biodiversity and its conservation
  • Plant germplasm collection including of wild species, intra specific variations in crop plants, and molecular characterization of variations, Issues of Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) and legal concerns of bioresources.

 

ESSENTIAL READINGS: 

ESSENTIAL READING:

  • Plant, Gene and crop Biotechnology, M.J. Chrispeel and D.E. Sadava ASPB 2003.
  • Textbook of Environmental Biotechnology, P.K Mohapatra, I K International Publications, Mumbai 2006.
  • Environmental Chemistry, A.K. De, Willey Eastern Ltd., New Delhi.
  • Microbial Ecology- Fundamentals and applications. Ronald. M. Atlas, Richard Bartha. Pearson Education. 2005.
  • Advances in Industrial Waste water treatment. P.K. Goel. (First Edition). Technosound Publications. 1999

SUGGESTED READING:

  • Wastewater Engineering- Treatment, Disposal and Resuse, Metcalf and Eddy, Inc., Tata McGraw Hill, Delhi.1999
  • Comprehensive Biotechnology, vol.4, M. Moo- Young (Ed-in-chief), Pergamon Press, Oxford.
  • Introduction to Biodeterioration. D. Allsopp and K.J. Seal, ELBS/Edward Arnold.
  • Bioremediation Engineering: design and Application. Cookson, J.T. McGraw- Hill, Inc.1995
  • Environmental Biotechnology – Basic concepts and applications, InduShekhar Thakur, I K International publications. 2006

 

 

REFERENCES: 

e RESOURCES

JOURNALS

  • Sustainable Water Resources Management
  • Water Resources Research
  • Expert Opinion on Environmental Biology
  • Management of Natural Resources
  • Microorganisms
  • Mutation Research
  • Conservation Genetics
  • Plos One
  • Water Resources Management
  • Biodiversity and Conservation

 

Academic Year: 
2022-2023
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