Advances in Wastewater Treatment 2024
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "B: Energy and Environment".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2024 | Viewed by 5989
Special Issue Editors
Interests: environmental engineering, wastewater treatment proceses, heavy metals, sorption, zeolite, chemical modification of natural zeolite, soil and water remediation
Interests: biosorption, water and wastewater treatment, environmental engineering, heavy metal pollution, material characterization, phytoremediation of uranium
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Certainly, the most significant and priceless natural resource that humans use comes from nature is water. The main source of fresh water for various purposes such as food and industrial production, human consumption, etc. is mainly groundwater. All water systems, in particular groundwater, are vulnerable since they are targets of pollution from natural, and more often anthropogenic sources, which makes them harmful to human health and the environment. Pollutants belong to various categories, from solid waste, heavy metals, organic pollutants (petroleum derivatives, dyes, etc.) to "new pollutants" such as pharmaceuticals. In recent years, it has often been challenging to meet the required regulatory standards due to increasingly stringent requirements for maximum permissible pollutant concentrations in treated wastewater. For this reason, advanced knowledge is necessary and desirable in developing new advanced technologies or improving existing technologies at all levels of wastewater treatment (preliminary, primary, secondary and tertiary treatment). In addition to the need to obtain purified water, it is extremely important to consider the possibility of energy production (thermal, electrical) from wastewater treatment. Utilization of waste gases and sludge generated by wastewater treatment represents a sustainable approach to the cleaner energy production, contributing to the reduction of both, CO2 emissions and the use of fossil fuels. Ultimately, the production of cleaner water and energy through wastewater recycling is an important pathway to circular economy and sustainable development.
This Special Issue "Advances in Wastewater Treatment 2023" aims to collect original research papers as well as review articles on the latest developments and research efforts on this topic. We welcome experimental research, design and simulation, and environmental engineering aspects of physical, chemical and biological wastewater treatment processes and energy production.
Potential topics of interest may include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Energy conservation /recovery/production from wastewater treatment
- Innovative water treatment process in energy generation
- Design and operation of industrial wastewater bio-refinery
- Assessment of industrial wastewater for future Bio-refinery
- Electricity generation during industrial wastewater treatment
- Physico-chemical wastewater treatment (chemical precipitation, coagulation/flocculation, adsorption, ion exchange, biosorption, disinfection)
- Biological wastewater treatment (aerobic and anaerobic processes)
- Batch and continuous sorption enhanced processes
- Advanced aspects of wastewater treatment (application and development of new and alternative materials)
- Innovative design, modeling and optimization of wastewater treatment processes
- Electrochemical technologies (electrocoagulation/electroflocculation, electrodialysis)
- Advanced membrane technologies (mico-, ultra-, nano-filtration, reverse osmosis)
- Advanced oxidation processes (chemical, photochemical, sonochemical, photocatalytic processes)
- Remediation processes
- Sustainable green technologies
- Development of new strategies for wastewater treatment
- New developments in wastewater treatment technologies: the present situation
- Future of circular economy of water – wastewater treatment
- Other related topics
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Marin Ugrina
Dr. Jelena Milojković
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- energy production from wastewater treatment
- physico-chemical and biological wastewater treatment
- electrochemical technologies
- advanced membrane technologies
- advanced oxidation processes
- environmentally friendly processes
- advanced wastewater treatment
Planned Papers
The below list represents only planned manuscripts. Some of these manuscripts have not been received by the Editorial Office yet. Papers submitted to MDPI journals are subject to peer-review.
Title: The role of solar concentrator in photocatalytic wastewater treatment
Authors: Joy Sankar Roy; Younès Messaddeq
Affiliation: Laval University
Abstract: The sustainable and cost-effective wastewater treatment technology is a global challenging issue as the water pollution is increasing day by day due to rapid industrialization and expansion of population. The photocatalytic wastewater treatment is a cutting-edge and environmentally friendly technology that uses photons from light source to degrade and remove organic and inorganic contaminants from water. Thus, the photocatalysis treatment of wastewater using solar energy is a promising renewable solution to reduce stresses on global water crisis. To address this issue, the utilization of solar concentrator as the concentrated sunlight source for photo-catalysis provides a promising direction for future applications of low cost and fastest sustainable wastewater purification process. This novel technology will open new technological aspects for cost-effective sustainable rapid wastewater purification process using sunlight. Various solar concentrating systems and their potential application in wastewater treatment process have been discussed in this review article.
Title: Methanogenesis - General principles and application in wastewater remediation
Authors: Marija Vuković Domanovac
Affiliation: University of Zagreb
Title: Development and application of microalgae-bacterial granular sludge technology in wastewater treatment and biofuel production - a comprehensive review
Authors: Joanna Kazimierowicz1, Marcin Dębowski2*, Marcin Zieliński2
Affiliation: 1Department of Water Supply and Sewage Systems, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences, Bialystok University of Technology, 15-351 Bialystok, Poland
2Department of Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Geoengineering, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, 10-720 Olsztyn, Poland
*author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract: Wastewater treatment systems based on bacterial granular sludge from aerobic and anaerobic microorganisms have already passed the stage of experimental work and are successfully operated on an industrial scale. Their technological readiness is sufficient to design and implement these solutions on a large scale. A relatively new technology that has only been under development for a few years is the use of the symbiotic growth and interaction of granulated consortia of microalgae and bacteria. The research results presented so far are very promising and indicate the possibility of a broad application of this new technology. The use of microalgae-bacterial granular sludge is seen as a reasonable alternative to current wastewater treatment processes. Research into the creation and effective utilisation of these symbiotic relationships is still at an early stage and has so far mainly been carried out on a small scale. The aim of the work is to comprehensively analyse the available literature data on the possibilities of using microalgae-bacterial granular sludge, to determine the strengths and weaknesses of this solution, to determine the application potential and to identify further research directions required to increase the technological readiness level.
It has been proven that this biological process increases the removal rate of carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus and favours the incorporation of lipids, which directly increases the calorific value. This lipid content makes the biomass produced a more universal and valuable substrate for energy production. The biomass also collects other value-added products whose recovery from excess sludge can be technologically and commercially profitable. The commonly cited advantages of microalgae-bacterial granular sludge are the ease of separation, excellent sedimentation, high pollutant removal rates, lower operating costs (aeration) and the production of high value-added biomass.
Title: Recent Advancements in Coagulation: Chemical and Electrochemical Approaches
Authors: Jun-Gyu Park
Affiliation: Chosun University