Energy Recovery in Water and Wastewater Treatment
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "B: Energy and Environment".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 August 2022) | Viewed by 1576
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The incessant rise in the world’s demand for clean water and energy indicates that achieving the balance in the water–energy nexus is the key to sustainable development. Besides being a resource, water acts as a transport medium to other resources such as materials, chemicals, and energy when it is utilized for domestic and industrial purposes and turned into wastewater. Since water and wastewater treatment requires significant energy and wastewater is composed of various valuable materials, the closed-loop integrative management systems on simultaneous treatment and resource recovery are crucial for the future world. Promoting the wastewater-based circular economy through recovering water, energy, and valuable resources in the form of chemicals, fertilizers, and materials is essential for the sustainable development of our communities. This Special Issue invites papers to shed light on various water and wastewater treatment technologies that recover energy and other valuable resources concurrently. We invite both original research articles and review articles for the peer-reviewed publication in Energies.
The Special Issue coverage includes, but is not limited to, the following research topics:
- Energy (methane, hydrogen, biofuel, electricity, etc.) and resource recovery (nutrients, heavy metals, biochar, etc.) from wastewater through biological, physico-chemical, electrochemical, bio-electrochemical, and thermal-based methodologies
- Advanced oxidation processes for wastewater treatment
- Bioelectrochemical systems such as Microbial fuel cell and microbial electrolysis cell technologies for simultaneous production of electricity and treatment of wastewater
- Methane recovery from wastewater treatment (anaerobic digestion of wastewater and wastewater sludge)
- Biohydrogen and biofuel production from wastewater
- Hydrogen production from water and wastewater through chemical, photochemical, electrochemical techniques
- Thermochemical conversion of wastewater sludge (Pyrolysis, gasification, hydrothermal liquefaction, supercritical methods) for bio-oil and biochar recovery
- Membrane-based treatment processes
Dr. Divyapriya Govindaraj
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- water and wastewater treatment
- energy recovery
- resource recovery
- water recovery and reuse
- circular economy
- biological methods
- physico-chemical methods
- chemical and photochemical methods
- advanced oxidation processes
- electrochemical methods
- bioelectrochemical systems
- biogas and biofuel production
- hydrogen production
- thermochemical conversion
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