Biodegradation of Azo Dyes

Azo dyes play an important role as coloring agents in the textile, food, and pharmaceutical industry. Due to the toxicity, mutagenicity and carcinogenicity of azo dyes and their breakdown products, their removal from industrial wastewaters has been an urg

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Andrey G. Kostianoy

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Biodegradation of Azo Dyes

Volume Editor: Hatice Atacag Erkurt

With contributions by M. Arshad  H. Atacag Erkurt  U.C. Banerjee  L. Bardi  ¨ . C¸inar  D. Crowley  K. Demiro¨z  R.M.F. Bezerra  O A.A. Dias  A. Di Donato  E.A Erkurt  J. Guo  L. Kang  A. Khalid  R. Khan  R. Liu  X. Lu  M.S. Lucas  A. Marzocchella  M. Marzona  M.A. Mazmanci  G. Olivieri  J.A. Peres  P. Salatino  A. Sampaio  S. Sandhya  A. Unyayar  X. Wang  J. Yang

Editor Dr. Hatice Atacag Erkurt Department of Environmental Engineering Faculty of Engineering Cyprus International University, Haspolat Nicosia, North Cyprus Via Mersin 10 Turkey [email protected]

The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry ISSN 1867-979X e-ISSN 1616-864X ISBN 978-3-642-11846-3 e-ISBN 978-3-642-11847-0 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-11847-0 Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2010924172 # Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of i