Wastewater and Waste Treatment: Overview, Challenges and Current Trends
A special issue of Processes (ISSN 2227-9717). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental and Green Processes".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2022) | Viewed by 160931
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Interests: membrane filtration; integrated membrane processes; adsorption; phenolic compounds; coagulation; anaerobic digestion; life cycle assessment; techno-economic analysis; agro-industrial wastes
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Interests: catalysis; electrocatalysis; electrochemistry; advanced oxidation processes; hydrocarbon reforming; CO2 reduction
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Climate change and resource scarcity are developing into the most important challenges of the 21st century. Wastewater and waste treatment processes can play a major role in tackling both of the aforementioned problems. Novel treatment processes of immerging pollutants are of high interest, especially when they lead to the recovery of energy or resources.
Apart from the technical characteristics, the environmental and economic impacts of any proposed wastewater and waste treatment process should be considered as they strongly affect their viability and adoption potential. Considering the latter, recent research efforts exhibiting innovative waste treatment methods should be framed by life cycle assessment or/and technoeconomic analysis of the proposed processes.
The aim of this Special Issue is to highlight current trends and future perspectives in wastewater and waste treatment methods, including economic and environmental assessments. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- novel biological, advanced oxidation, and physicochemical wastewater and waste treatment methods;
- current trends in wastewater and waste treatment systems;
- high environmental impact waste streams and treatment challenges;
- environmental and economic impact of wastewater and waste treatment methods.
Dr. Dimitris Zagklis
Dr. Georgios Bampos
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- wastewater treatment
- waste treatment
- biological treatment
- advanced oxidation treatment
- physicochemical treatment
- life cycle assessment
- technoeconomic analysis
- environmental impact
- economic impact
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