Toxic Pollutants in Water: Health Risk Assessment and Removal
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water Quality and Contamination".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 July 2024) | Viewed by 21837
Special Issue Editors
2. College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nankai University, Tianjin 300350, China
Interests: water treatment; heavy metals; organic pollutant degradation; environmental remediation; waste utilization; adsorption; biochar
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Interests: biomass conversion; organic waste utilization; hydrothermal conversion; pyrolysis; high value-added products; environmental remediation
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Interests: health risk assessments; pollutants toxicity; environmental fate and behavior; pollution pathway; source apportionment
Interests: adsorption; biomass conversion technolgies; biofuels and bioenergy; hydrochar; pollutant control; water quality analysis
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The chronic occurrence of toxic pollutants, such as heavy metals, dyes, pesticides, and organic contaminants, in water is a significant environmental concern due to their persistence, toxicity, and potential risks to humans and the ecosystem. This Special Issue on “Toxic Pollutants in Water: Health Risk Assessment and Removal” aims to explore and advance the understanding of toxic pollutant contamination in water environments while focusing on effective assessment techniques and innovative approaches for their remediation and removal to safeguard ecological health. The Issue seeks to bring together multidisciplinary research, consolidating knowledge and expertise from the diverse fields of assessment and fate of toxic pollutants, synthesis and characterization of environmental composites, toxic pollutant removal techniques, and water reuse. This Issue aims to foster collaboration, promote sustainable practices, and contribute to developing effective strategies for addressing toxic pollutant contamination in water, ensuring environmental protection, and reusing water. A vast range of topics related to toxic pollutant contamination in water, health risk assessment, and removal will be covered. These may include the following, but are not limited to these areas of study:
- Toxic pollutant (heavy metals, dyes, pesticides, and organic contaminants) sources, environmental fate, and toxicity;
- Novel approaches to exposure assessment and ecological risk assessment;
- Water treatment and toxic pollutants remediation techniques, i.e., chemical precipitation, adsorption, ion exchange, catalytic reduction, advanced oxidation, photocatalysis, membrane filtration, artificial intelligence-based techniques, etc.;
- Finding novel toxic pollutant removal techniques and upgrading existing ones;
- Environmental composites/nanoparticles/materials for toxic pollutant removal;
- Management strategies of used composites and removal mechanisms for better waste management.
Given this persistent area of scientific concern, we invite original articles, reviews, and meta-analyses on relevant topics of interest.
Dr. Shakeel Ahmad
Prof. Dr. Shicheng Zhang
Dr. Mujtaba Baqar
Dr. Eric Danso-Boateng
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- water pollution
- water treatment techniques
- toxic pollutants
- pollutant control
- health risk assessment
- toxicity
- environmental composites
- nanoparticles
- toxic pollutant removal mechanisms
- artificial intelligence-based techniques
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