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Although many available metal recycling methods are simple and fast, they are also expensive and cause environmental pollution. Biohydrometallurgical processing of metals offers an alternative to overcome these issues, as the use of biological means not only helps to conserve dwindling ore resources but also fulfills the unambiguous need to extract metals in nonpolluting, low-energy, and low-cost way. This book covers biohydrometallurgy and its application in the recovery of metals from secondary sources like wastes. Fully updated for a new edition, it provides readers with a comprehensive overview of different wastes for metal recovery and biological treatment methods that are both environmentally friendly and economically viable.

• Offers a detailed explanation about generation of different metals containing industrial waste
• Explains traditional and new biological methods of recycling
• Reflects research advances across different industrial waste sources including electric vehicle batteries and LCDs from computers and other devices
• Focuses on each waste type and explores in detail the biohydrometallurgical recovery of metals from that waste
• Discusses fundamental microbial studies in bioleaching and updates about the use of emerging technologies and integrated techniques with different methods in combination for metal recovery
• Features a new chapter on techniques for metal extraction from bioleachate

This book serves as an essential resource for researchers and professional engineers working in chemical and environmental engineering and biotechnology.

Hong Hocheng is the chair professor at National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, R.O.C. He received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 1988. He is an ASME and AMME fellow. His fields of interest are innovative manufacturing processes, nontraditional machining, and micro-/nanomanufacturing.

Mital Chakankar is a senior scientist in the biotechnology department of Germany’s Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology, and its Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf laboratory. She received her PhD in microbiology from India’s Shivaji University in 2011. Her fields of interest are (Bio)hydrometallurgy, circular economy, critical raw materials processing, and bioflotation.

Umesh Jadhav received his PhD in environmental biotechnology from Shivaji University, India, in 2009. Presently, he is a faculty member in the Department of Microbiology, Savitribai Phule Pune University, India.

Swati Gurme received her Ph.D. in Biotechnology from Shivaji University, India. She is currently working as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Power Mechanical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan.