Dear Colleagues,

Urban and industrial wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) produce a huge quantity of sludge, a concentrated solid or semi-solid residue of heterogeneous character. The production quantity of sludge has been vastly increasing with the development of industrialization and urbanization and is currently considered as an ecological burden. Usually, sludge output control is accomplished by reducing sludge production during the wastewater treatment stage through agricultural usage, landfilling, or even incineration, causing secondary pollution problems. Nowadays, due to increasingly strict legislation, it is necessary to find sustainable solutions in order to manage this waste at low-cost conditions. Thus, the transformation of sludge into carbon materials to obtain efficient and sustainable carbon-based adsorbents and catalytic supports is a challenge that holds great promise. This Special Issue is focused on the synthesis of different sludge-based carbon materials for the removal of different emerging and priority contaminants from wastewater by physical and advanced oxidation treatments, such as adsorption, catalytic wet air oxidation (CWPO), catalytic wet peroxide oxidation (CWPO), heterogeneous Fenton processes, and photocatalysis, among others. Original research papers, reviews, and short reviews are invited for submission.

Prof. Dr. Silvia Álvarez-Torrellas
Prof. Dr. Juan García Rodríguez
Guest Editors

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• Adsorption
• Advanced catalytic oxidation processes
• Emerging and priority micropollutants
• Sludge-based carbon materials
• Wastewater.