Overview
- Presents the first comprehensive text on construction biomaterials and bioprocesses
- Includes a chapter on the design of construction biotechnology processes
- Critically reviews all the current and potential construction biotechnology processes
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Green Energy and Technology (GREEN)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
It discusses a number of topics including the biotechnological production of new construction materials such as self-healing concrete, construction biocomposites, construction bioplastics, and biotechnological admixtures to cement. It also addresses construction-related processes like biocementation, bioclogging, soil surface fixation and biosealing, microbial cements and grouts, the biocoating of construction material surfaces, the microbiology and biosafety of the construction environment, the prevention of biocorrosion as well as biodeterioration and biofouling in civil engineering. Biomediated precipitation of calcium, magnesium, and iron compounds as carbonates, phosphates, sulphides, and silicate minerals in soil for its clogging and strengthening are considered from geotechnical, chemical, and microbiological points of view. It offers an overview of the basic microbiology that will enable civil engineers to perform the construction biogeochemical processes. Design principles and considerations for different field implementations are discussed from a practical point of view. The book can be used as a textbook for graduate and senior undergraduate students in biotechnology, civil engineering and environmental engineering as well as a reference book for researchers and practitioners working in this new interdisciplinary area.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Construction Biotechnology
Book Subtitle: Biogeochemistry, Microbiology and Biotechnology of Construction Materials and Processes
Authors: Volodymyr Ivanov, Viktor Stabnikov
Series Title: Green Energy and Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1445-1
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Energy, Energy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-1444-4Published: 03 November 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-9355-5Published: 29 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-1445-1Published: 20 October 2016
Series ISSN: 1865-3529
Series E-ISSN: 1865-3537
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 317
Number of Illustrations: 54 b/w illustrations, 44 illustrations in colour
Topics: Building Construction and Design, Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering, Structural Materials, Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology