Course10210508852 lectures
Environmental Biotechnology
Prof. Pinaki Sar · IIT Kharagpur
About
The Environmental Biotechnology course aims to introduce and elaborate the fundamental concepts and applications of biotechnology in all aspects of environment including its protection, restoration and sustainability. Considering the rising challenges of climate change, energy and environmental crisis, this course will emphasize upon the recent development of biotechnology for harnessing microbial potential in environmental applications. The course is structured to provide the students with fundamental concepts of environmental biotechnology, highlighting the importance of microbial ecology, their metabolism, methods for their characterization and scopes for implementation. Bioremediation and biodegradation principles, processes and applications will be discussed along with advanced applications in wastewater, oil recovery, biohydrometallurgy, biofuel, carbon storage and capture, etc. This course will offer the students a broad sense of understanding on how modern biotechnology is developed to achieve better environmental protection and sustainability through the use of microbes and microbial communities in pollution abatement to mitigation of climate change, bioenergy, biomaterial to enzyme discovery. .
Intended audience: B Sc. (Biosciences, Microbiology, Biotechnology, Botany, Any other branches of Life Sciences); M Sc. (Biotechnology / Life Sciences/ Environmental Sciences); B Tech (Biotechnology/Bioengineering)
Prerequisites: Microbiology, Biochemistry, Genetics/Genomics SUPPORTED INDUSTRIES :Tata Consultancy Services, India; Tata Steel, India; ERM, India; ONGC, India; Aerobic Biotaxy India “Private” Limited, India Mining and Oil companies
Lectures
Week 1
- Lecture 01 : Introduction of Environmental Biotechnology, Scope and applications of the subject
- Lecture 02 : Introduction of Environmental Biotechnology, Scope and applications of the subject (Contd.)
- Lecture 03 : Ecosystem : Basic concepts of structure and function
- Lecture 04 : Ecosystem : Basic concepts of structure and function (Contd.)
- Lecture 05 : Microbial Ecology
Week 2
- Lecture 06 : Microbial Ecology (Contd.)
- Lecture 07 : Microbial Ecosystems & Biogeochemical Cycling
- Lecture 08 : Biogeochemical Cycles
- Lecture 09 : Microbial ecology and environmental biotechnology - Part A
- Lecture 10 : Microbial ecology and environmental biotechnology - Part B
Week 3
- Lecture 11 : Microbial ecology and environmental biotechnology - Part B (Contd.)
- Lecture 12 : Microbial ecology and environmental biotechnology - Part B (Contd.)
- Lecture 13 : Microbial ecology and environmental biotechnology - Part C
- Lecture 14 : Microbial ecology and environmental biotechnology - Part C (Contd.)
- Lecture 15 : Microbial ecology and environmental biotechnology - Part C (Contd.)
Week 4
- Lecture 16: Microbial Ecology and Environmental Biotechnology - Part C
- Lecture 17: Microbiology of Environmental Engineering System
- Lecture 18: Microbiology of Environmental Engineering System (Contd.)
- Lecture 19: Microbiology of Environmental Engineering System (Contd.)
- Lecture 20: Microbiology of Environmental Engineering System (Contd.)
Week 5
- Lecture 21: Physiological ecology & Resource Exploitation by Microorganisms
- Lecture 22: Physiological ecology & Resource Exploitation by Microorganisms (Contd.)
- Lecture 23: Physiological ecology & Resource Exploitation by Microorganisms (Contd.)
- Lecture 24: Physiological ecology & Resource Exploitation by Microorganisms (Contd.)
Week 6
- Lecture 25 : Methods in Microbial Ecology with Relevance to Environmental Biotechnology
- Lecture 26 : Methods in Microbial Ecology with Relevance to Environmental Biotechnology (Contd.)
- Lecture 27 : Methods in Microbial Ecology with Relevance to Environmental Biotechnology (Contd.)
- Lecture 28 : Methods in Microbial Ecology with Relevance to Environmental Biotechnology (Contd.)
- Lecture 29 : Methods in Microbial Ecology with Relevance to Environmental Biotechnology (Contd.)
Week 7
- Lecture 30 : Methods in Microbial Ecology with Relevance to Environmental Biotechnology (Contd.)
- Lecture 31 : Methods in Microbial Ecology with Relevance to Environmental Biotechnology (Contd.)
- Lecture 32 : Methods in Microbial Ecology with Relevance to Environmental Biotechnology (Contd.)
- Lecture 33 : Methods in Microbial Ecology with Relevance to Environmental Biotechnology (Contd.)
Week 8
- Lecture 34: Methods in Microbial Ecology with relevance to Environmental Biotechnology (Contd.)
- Lecture 35: Bioremediation
- Lecture 36: Bioremediation (Contd.)
- Lecture 37: Bioremediation (Contd.)
Week 9
Week 10
- Lecture 40 : Biodegradation
- Lecture 41 : Biodegradation (Contd.)
- Lecture 42 : Microbial Interactions with Heavy Metals and Metalloids
- Lecture 43 : Microbial Interactions with Heavy Metals and Metalloids - Bioremediation
Week 11
- Lecture 44 : Biohydrometallurgy
- Lecture 45 : Enhanced biological phosphorus removal process (EBPR)
- Lecture 46 : Biological nitrogen removal
- Lecture 47 : Microbially Enhanced Oil Recovery (MEOR)
Week 12
Syllabus and materials
At NPTEL, as the course publishes them.
Credits and licence
- Institution
- IIT Kharagpur
- Department
- Biotechnology
- Teacher
- Prof. Pinaki Sar
- Level
- Undergraduate
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Biology
- Source
- NPTEL
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- CC BY-NC-SA, as NPTEL states it. Non-commercial use only. NPTEL's terms
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