Municipal Wastewater Treatment and Removal of Micropollutants
A special issue of Processes (ISSN 2227-9717). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental and Green Processes".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2025 | Viewed by 12590
Special Issue Editors
Interests: ozone based advanced oxidation processes; biological and combined treatment processes; municipal, industrial wastewater and landfill leachate treatment; minimizing of sludge production, micropollutants, emerging pollutants, priority, hazardous and persistent substances; degradation, transformation and biodegradability enhancement; processes modelling and design
Interests: treatment of industrial and municipal wastewater; sustainable solid waste management; microplastics
Interests: biological treatment; chemical analysis; environment protection; macronutrients; micropollutants; organics; physical-chemical processes; toxicity; wastewater
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We would like to take this opportunity to invite you to participate in this Special Issue on "(Municipal) Wastewater Treatment and Micropollutant Removal Processes" to be published in the open access journal Processes (ISSN 2227-9717; indexed in SCIE and Scopus; IF = 3.5 and CiteScore = 4.7, ranking Q2 in the category "Engineering, Chemical")), an international peer-reviewed open access journal on processes in chemistry, biochemistry, biology, materials, and related process/systems engineering research areas.
The removal of macronutrients and micropollutants is one of the most pressing problems of municipal wastewater treatment. Both categories of pollutants are characterized by their seriousness in terms of the protection of human health and the protection of the environment. A common feature is also a large amount of treated wastewater. However, they differ in the variety of pollutants and their concentration values. These specifics are reflected in the applied processes and treatment technologies. The dominant ones include biological processes and their combination with other processes. With extensive applications and significant progress in technological practice, effective procedures and technologies have been developed for the removal of macronutrient N and P from municipal wastewater. The main challenges for their further development include intensification and reduction in material and energy inputs.
The diversity of micropollutants from the point of view of the spectrum of pollutants, their structure, properties, and negative effects has initiated many separation, transformation, and degradation processes. The greatest attention is paid to priority, persistent, and toxic substances. However, in technological practice, degradation, separation, and combined processes are expanding, which make it possible to eliminate numerous micropollutants, or their toxic and harmful effects.
An important link between the removal of macronutrient and micropollutants is sewage and excess sludge, on which a significant amount of micropollutants is adsorbed. Their elimination from sludge increases the potential for their safe use in agriculture. At the same time, sludge degradation can serve as a renewable source of organic carbon for biological processes of macronutrient removal.
Prof. Dr. Jan Derco
Prof. Dr. Andreja Žgajnar Gotvajn
Dr. Angelika Kassai
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- biological treatment
- micropollutants
- minimization of material and energy inputs
- priority and persistent substances
- reduction in sludge production
- degradative
- transformation, separation, and combined processes
- sludge treatment
- toxicity
- renewable carbon source
- processes’ and technologies’ sustainability
- wastewater treatment
- water reuse
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