BIOTECHNOLOGY

FOR WASTE
AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT
by

Nicholas P. Cheremisinoff, Ph.D.

NOYES PUBLICATIONS
Weatwood, New Jerary, U.8.A.

Copyright 0 1996 by Nicholas P. Cheremisinoff

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ISBN: 0-8155-1409-3
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Cheremisinoff, Nicholas P.
Biotechnology for waste and wastewater treatment / Nicholas P.
Cheremisnoff.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8155-1409-3
1. Sewage--Purification--Biological treatment. 2. Water-Purification--Biological treatment. I. Title.

TD755.C547 1996
628.3--d~21

96-45255
CIP

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Nicholas P. Cheremisinoff is a private consultant to
industry, academia, and government. He has nearly twenty years
of industry and applied research experience in elastomers,
synthetic fuels, petrochemicals manufacturing, and environmental
control. A chemical engineer by trade, he has authored over 100
engineering textbooks and has contributed extensively to the
industrial press. He is currently working for the United States
Agency for International Development in Eastern Ukraine, where
he is managing the Industrial Waste Management Project. Dr.
Cheremisinoff received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from
Clarkson College of Technology.

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