Emerging Technologies in Wastewater Treatment and Resource Recovery: Recent Advances, Challenges and Future Trends
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sustainability and Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2023) | Viewed by 2520
Special Issue Editors
Interests: advanced materials; treatment of emergent pollutants; wastewater treatment biomaterials; advanced technologies
Interests: water treatment; synthesis and characterization of materials and nanomaterials; advanced oxidation processes; heterogeneous photocatalysis; environmental chemistry
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Water pollution has been a common challenge the world over because it is a major problem affecting human health and the aquatic environment. Emergent pollutants are introduced into freshwater from a variety of industrial and human activities involving mining, processing, and leaching from uncontrolled landfill sites or the use of substances that contain toxic pollutants, such as metals, textile dyes, and pesticides, etc. Furthermore, extra chemicals, energy consumption, as well as greenhouse gases emissions from conventional wastewater treatment have been of interest to researchers. In recent decades, several advanced technologies have been employed for municipal wastewater management. These methods include: electrochemical methods, electrodialysis membrane, semiconductor photocatalysts, dialysis processes, anaerobic membrane bioreactor, advanced oxidation processes and adsorption onto developed-materials-based biomasses. There is a need, however, to find alternative approaches suitable for achieving the sustainable development goals. The purpose of this Special Issue is to discuss the challenges and opportunities of advanced materials and developed technologies for wastewater treatment and resource recovery. The issue’s focus is on new hybrid methods and advanced technologies, concepts, and process designs to sustainably remove emergent pollutants. Additionally, authors may report on the feasibility of using these advanced technologies and their economical approaches for full-scale applications.
Prof. Dr. Hanane Tounsadi
Prof. Dr. Alaâeddine Elhalil
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- resource recovery
- water contamination or pollution
- sustainability
- water desalination
- emergent pollutants
- advanced materials
- advanced technologies
- sustainable development
- economical approaches
- biomass, bioenergy
- full-scale applications
