Treatment of Municipal Wastewater by Anaerobic Biotechnology
A special issue of Fermentation (ISSN 2311-5637). This special issue belongs to the section "Industrial Fermentation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 October 2024 | Viewed by 4503
Special Issue Editors
Interests: organic wastewater; anaerobic biotechnology for solid waste recycling; microbial electrochemical assisted anaerobic digestion treatment technology
Interests: wastewater/water treatment; nioelectrochemical system; electrochemcial degradation of pollution
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Dear Colleagues,
Municipal wastewater treatment is a constant concern for both researchers and engineers. Numerous processes have been developed or upgraded to meet the increasingly stringent pollution control requirement around the world, which usually takes aerobic technologies as the core and removes pollutants from the wastewater with huge energy costs. Recently, the traditional approach is being challenged by the growing climate problems and rising energy prices, and a new consensus is emerging based on the concept of sustainability: wastewater is a potential resource rather than a mere pollutant.
Anaerobic biotechnologies, with anaerobic digestion as a typical example, are able to remove pollutants or convert them into high-value-added products (including both biofuels and chemicals) at relatively low energy costs. Now, the application scope and theoretical understanding of anaerobic biotechnologies are expanding, and various novel technologies (such as anerobic membrane bioreactor, anaerobic ammonia oxidation, and anaerobic electrochemical technology) are developing, which provide promising options for efficient wastewater treatment and energy/resource recovery.
The goal of this Special Issue is to publish both recent innovative research results and review papers on the anaerobic biotechnology that can realize energy (in the form of methane, hydrogen, electricity, etc.) and resource (nitrogen, phosphorus, PHA, VFAs, etc.) recovery from municipal wastewater or its correlatives (such as waste-activated sludge). Review and research papers on the development of low-carbon or energy-neutral wastewater treatment systems based on anaerobic biotechnologies are also of great interest. If you would like to contribute a review paper, please contact one of the editors to discuss the topic’s relevance before submitting the manuscript.
Sincerely,
Dr. Zechong Guo
Dr. Minhua Cui
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- municipal wastewater
- waste activated sludge
- anaerobic digestion
- energy recovery
- resource recovery
- carbon neutralization
- anerobic membrane bioreactor
- microbial electrochemical system
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