Saline Wastewater: Characteristics and Treatment Technologies
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Applied Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 12614
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Interests: wastewater; adsorption; photocatalysis; titanate; electrodialysis
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Dear Colleagues,
The discharge of saline wastewater has significantly increased with the rapid development of urbanization and industrialization. Saline wastewater contains large amounts of salt resources originating from various sources, such as the NaCl from the coal chemical industry and ZnSO4 from electroplating processes. The inappropriate treatment of these systems would not only induce serious environment pollution problems but also cause a waste of resources. To realize the aim of zero discharge, various methods have been proposed to treat saline wastewater and recover the contained resources, including crystallization, electrodialysis, reverse osmosis, adsorption, catalysis, etc. During these typical treatments, the characteristics of the wastewater with high salinity also play important roles. For example, the types of solubilized salts and their solubility influence the kinetics and thermodynamics of crystallization, and the solution microstructure of saline wastewater also affects the performance of electrodialysis, reverse osmosis and adsorption, etc. Therefore, investigations into the characteristics of saline wastewater are also welcomed.
Dr. Jingtao Bi
Prof. Dr. Yingying Zhao
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- saline wastewater
- salinity
- resource utilization
- crystallization
- electrodialysis
- reverse osmosis
- membrane
- solubility
- solution microstructure