Carrier Technology/humic Additives To UpgradeBiological Water Treatment

The limitations of wastewater bio-treatments have challenged cell biologists and bioengineers to search for new approaches to upgrade the function and stability of these processes. In this connection, we have been trying to find a widely applicable approach to optimize the clean up efficiency through enhanced capability of fungal biodegraders both to tolerate pollutant toxicity or stressing conditions of the environment and to utilize less accessible pollutants. This paper reports some findings enabling aimed applications of fungal biofilms and humic additives.