Sustainable Environmental Science and Water/Wastewater Treatment: 2nd Edition

Dear Colleagues,

In the fast-paced globalized world we live in today, it is crucial for every sector to focus on minimizing waste and wastewater through the implementation of eco-friendly and sustainable management strategies [1,2]. To achieve this goal, it is crucial to prioritize the reuse of treated streams, extracting valuable nutrients and utilizing waste or by-products from waste and wastewater to create a production model that is eco-friendly and sustainable [3,4]. However, the expensive nature and challenges of traditional techniques drive the need for affordable, practical, and lucrative treatment approaches to effectively eliminate and recover surplus nutrients/contaminants from various waste streams [5–7]. Therefore, deploying appropriate cutting-edge/technology-driven water/wastewater treatment processes and sustainable product-focused approaches are crucial to meet growing global industrial needs from an environmental perspective [8–10].

This Special Issue, titled "Sustainable Environmental Science and Water/Wastewater Treatment: 2nd Edition", will maintain its strong dedication to environmental research, promoting sustainability and creative approaches to treating water and wastewater. With this goal in mind, this Special Issue intends to emphasize environmentally friendly strategies and innovative/advanced technologies to mitigate human-made and industrial environmental threats.

This Special Issue welcomes exceptional manuscripts with novel ideas or discoveries, as well as reviews presenting innovative perspectives. We are open to receiving paper submissions that offer unique perspectives or relevant case studies on the following topics:

• Creative and eco-friendly techniques for water and wastewater treatment;
• The utilization of by-products from industrial waste effluents for economic gain;
• Solutions for managing water and wastewater in a sustainable and circular manner;
• Analyses of sustainable environmental technologies from a techno-economic perspective;
• Evaluations of water/wastewater treatment systems through life-cycle assessment;
• Extracting beneficial materials from industrial effluents for circular economy advancement;
• Manufacturing environmentally friendly cement by using waste as a substitute;
• Computer-based applications in simulating water/wastewater treatment systems.

This Special Issue also welcomes submissions of manuscripts on various subjects showcasing the importance of sustainable environmental science and water/wastewater treatment.

References

[1] Yetilmezsoy, K., Kıyan, E., Ilhan, F., Özçimen, D., Koçer, A.T. (2022), “Screening plant growth effects of sheep slaughterhouse waste-derived soil amendments in greenhouse trials”, Journal of Environmental Management 318, 115586, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.115586.

[2] Yetilmezsoy, K., Çetinkaya, A.Y., Bilgili, L. (2022), “A synergistic assessment of bio-kinetics and life cycle environmental impacts of different agricultural biomass sources in Turkey, Waste and Biomass Valorization 13, 2651–2671, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12649-021-01674-w.

[3] Ozdemir S., Ozdemir S., Ozer H., Yetilmezsoy K. (2021), “A techno-sustainable bio-waste management strategy for closing chickpea yield gap”, Waste Management 119, 356–364, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasman.2020.10.030.

[4] Ozdemir, S., Yetilmezsoy, K. (2020), “A mini literature review on sustainable management of poultry abattoir wastes”, Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management 22, 11–21, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10163-019-00934-1.

[5] Yetilmezsoy, K., Ilhan, F., Kiyan, E., Bahramian, M. (2022), “A comprehensive techno-economic analysis of income-generating sources on the conversion of real sheep slaughterhouse waste stream into valorized by-products, Journal of Environmental Management 306, 114464, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.114464.

[6] Ozdemir, S., Ozdemir, S., Yetilmezsoy K. (2019), “Agro-economic and ecological assessment of poultry abattoir sludge as bio-nutrient source for walnut plantation in low-fertility soil”, Environmental Progress & Sustainable Energy 38, 1–7, https://doi.org/10.1002/ep.13225.

[7] Yetilmezsoy, K., Ilhan, F., Kocak, E., Akbin, H.M. (2017), “Feasibility of struvite recovery process for fertilizer industry: A study of financial and economic analysis”, Journal of Cleaner Production 152, 88–102, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.03.106.

[8] Yetilmezsoy, K., Ilhan F., Kıyan, E. (2023), “Treatability of high-strength real sheep slaughterhouse wastewater using struvite precipitation coupled Fenton's oxidation: The MAPFOX process”, Water Resources and Industry 30, 100228, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wri.2023.100228.

[9] Yetilmezsoy, K., Dinç-Şengönül, B., Ilhan, F., Kıyan, E., Yüzer, N. (2022), “Use of sheep slaughterhouse-derived struvite in the production of environmentally sustainable cement and fire-resistant wooden structures”, Journal of Cleaner Production 366, 132948, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.132948.

[10] Abdul-Wahab, S.A., Hassan, E.M., Al-Jabri, K.S., Yetilmezsoy, K. (2019), “Application of zeolite/kaolin combination for replacement of partial cement clinker to manufacture environmentally sustainable cement in Oman”, Environmental Engineering Research 24, 246–253, https://doi.org/10.4491/eer.2018.047.

Prof. Dr. Kaan Yetilmezsoy
Guest Editor

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• agro-industrial wastes
• circular waste recovery/management
• eco-friendly cement production
• life cycle assessment
• process modeling and simulation
• struvite (MAP) precipitation
• sustainable waste/wastewater treatment
• techno-economic analysis
• waste-oriented materials

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