Novel and Scalable Technologies for Sustainable Waste Management
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Waste and Recycling".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2025 | Viewed by 24
Special Issue Editor
2. Beijing Advanced Innovation Centre for Soft Matter Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China
Interests: renewable energy; sustainable engineering; chemical reactors; unit operations; powder technology; environmental technologies; waste treatment; impact assessments
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
“Few would disagree that one of the most urgent societal challenges, we face today is addressing the risks of climate change. How we meet the world’s demand for resources and energy necessary for economic growth while mitigating the long-term impact on our environment is key to our sustainable future” (D.W. Woods, Chairman of Exxon).
Developing novel and scalable technologies is critical to achieving the goals of the COP agreements. To that end, scientists and industrialists should be working to develop breakthrough solutions in emission reductions and resource conservation and management. Natural resource management requires integrative thinking and problem-solving that synthesizes ecological, economic, and social effects.
The world must move toward a more sustainable future with special emphasis on resources, clean products, and reduced energy consumption. The development of technologies that facilitate this target for chemical synthesis, minerals processing, heating, power generation, and the recycling of waste products is crucial. Within these objectives, a reduction in the global carbon footprint is essential. The carbon footprint is the total amount of greenhouse gasses that are generated or abated by our actions.
This Special Issue encourages submission of papers on any aspect of these target developments, hence on any scale of development from the laboratory to commercial applications.
Papers on technology development and improvement, process integration, and standards and regulation are within the scope of this Special Issue, as are case studies. Understanding the cycle of material and energy flows in processes is a very significant part of trying to achieve sustainability.
The following topics will be specifically addressed in this Special Issue:
- Novel waste water treatment toward zero-discharge;
- Waste minimization and disposal;
- Particle technology in chemical synthesis or energy processes;
- Hydrogen production;
- Process intensification and “green” chemical engineering;
- Testing, validation, and monitoring;
- Simulations of “green” production processes.
Papers that incorporate more than one of these topics are encouraged.
Prof. Dr. Jan Baeyens
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- waste management
- wastewater treatment
- waste minimization
- waste disposal
- particle technologies
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