This book examines various unique applications and their effectiveness of constructed wetlands for the treatment of complex and heavily polluted wastewater from industrial sources. It also highlights the technological and advanced knowledge in application of constructed wetlands through different microbiological and advanced biochemical technologies. Special attention is paid to suspended solids, organic matter, and nutrient removal. Deep insights are provided for facilities such as those in oil and gas industries, agro-industry, paper and pharmaceutical manufacturing, the textile industry, wineries, breweries, and sludge treatment, among others.

Constructed wetlands are low-cost and sustainable systems for wastewater treatment. Traditionally, they have been used for urban and domestic wastewater treatment, but in the last two decades, applications for industrial wastewater treatment have increased due to the advances of the technology and extended research in the field. The advances have also been encouraged by the economic, environmental, and societal advantages over conventional technologies.

This book helps academicians and industrialists obtain detailed knowledge about constructed wetlands in the field of wastewater treatment.

Dr. Maulin P. Shah is interested in genetic adaptation processes in bacteria. He has more than 350 research publications in highly reputable national and international journals. He directs the research program at Enviro Technology Ltd., Ankleshwar, India. He has guided more than 100 post-graduate students in various disciplines of life science. He is an active editorial board member in more than 150 renowned journals in the field of environmental and biological sciences. He was the founder and the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Environmental Bioremediation and Biodegradation (2012-2014) and the Journal of Applied & Environmental Microbiology (2012-2014) [Science and Education publishing (SciEP), USA]. He is also serving as a reviewer for various journals of national and international repute. He has edited 225 books in the area of wastewater microbiology and industrial wastewater treatment.

- Textile wastewater treatment: possible approaches with an emphasis on constructed wetlands.- Constructed Wetland for Metals: Removal Mechanisms and Analytical Challenges.- Role of Aerated constructed wetlands for municipal wastewater treatment.- Constructed Wetlands for remediating Organic Hydrocarbons: An approach for the sustainable environmental cleanup.- Constructed wetlands as an effective tool for textile effluent treatment.- Constructed wetland-microbial fuel cell for wastewater treatment and energy recovery: An Emerging Technology.- Aerated Constructed Wetlands for Treatment of Food Industry Wastewater.- Use of Algae in wastewater treatment.- Constructed Wetlands: The traditional system.- The need for auto-tailored wetlands for the treatment of untampered wastes of wineries and breweries.- Horizontal Subsurface Flow Constructed Wetlands for toxic pollutants removal.- Microbial consortium for the treatment of brewery effluents -Recommendation for brewery effluent treatmentin constructed wetlands.- In silico integration in Environmental Remediation.