(Bio)-Sorbents for Water Treatment and Soil Remediation
A special issue of Separations (ISSN 2297-8739). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Separations".
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Interests: pyrolysis-related adsorbents; biomass-based adsorbents; chemically modified adsorbents; wastewater field study
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
(Bio)-sorbents are gaining widespread use in various practical water treatment and soil remediation applications due to their often natural origins, as well as to a search for more sustainable and circular remediation solutions, while providing well-predictable and consistent sorptive behaviour. Other novel sorbent material types, such as zeolites; clays; MOFs; and geopolymer, hybrid and composite sorbents, are frequently introduced on the market, opening opportunities for the advancement of practical applications, including water treatment and soil remediation.
This issue aims to be multidisciplinary, involving theoretical and computational aspects of (bio)-sorbent material design and engineering; material property prediction, e.g., quantitative structure–property relationships; as well as intermolecular material–environment interactions (MEI).
Practical and engineering works involving (bio)-sorbents and sorbents are welcome. Novel practical applications are especially interesting, especially if green, sustainable and circular routes are studied.
We invite researchers to contribute to this Special Issue on “(Bio)-Sorbents for Water Treatment and Soil Remediation”, which intends to serve as a unique multidisciplinary forum on theoretical, computational and experimental science and engineering, including technology and the application of crystalline adsorbents.
The potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- The synthesis, development and characterization of (bio)-sorbents;
- Water treatment and remediation;
- Soil remediation;
- Zeolite and zeolite-like materials;
- Clays and clay-like materials;
- Composite and hybrid sorbents;
- Quantitative structure–property relationships;
- Computational property prediction and modelling;
- Novel practical applications of (bio)-sorbent adsorbents;
- Sustainable and circular solutions.
Dr. Andrey E. Krauklis
Dr. Ivar Zekker
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sorbents
- clays
- environmental remediation
- adsorption
- soil remediation
- water treatment
- biosorbents
- material-environment interactions
- sustainability
- separation
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