Sustainable Waste Air and Biogas Treatment
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Chemical Engineering and Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 September 2020) | Viewed by 18303
Special Issue Editors
Interests: biodegradation; waste air treatment; biotrickling filter; biofilter; bioscrubber; microbiology; community analysis; plasma treatment
Interests: biodegradation; biological waste air treatment; degradation pathways; mineralization of xenobiotics; microbiology, genetics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Recent scenarios of the International Energy Agency (IEA) and British Petroleum (BP) revealed both an increase in global population by 23 % and personal incomes of 2.5 billion people until the year 2040. In a ‘business as usual’ scenario CO2 emissions caused by increases in population and incomes cannot be compensated by higher energy efficiency efforts and lead to a global increase by 30 %. Even taking recent strategies like ‘low-carb’ fuels and regenerative energies into account predictive CO2 emission may increase by 10 %. On the other side, the key finding of the Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 °C of the year 2018 was that severe emission reductions are required to pass this goal until the year 2100. In detail, the CO2 equivalent emissions of 12 tons per year and habitant in industrial countries have to be reduced below 1 t CO2,eq/a/habitant until 2050. To achieve this goal every possibility of emission reduction has to be taken into account. Due to the fact that nearly 0.8 t CO2,eq/a/habitant is formed by waste gas and waste air treatment, mainly caused by the installation of incineration technologies or the inadequate capture and incineration of biogas, sustainable technologies for waste air, waste gas, and biogas treatment have to introduced. Biological waste air and waste gas treatment technologies are a high-potential alternative due to the lack of greenhouse gas relevant secondary emissions and a large spectrum of applications for these technologies. Despite these clear pros, biological waste air and waste gas treatment processes are mainly restricted to agricultural waste air and waste gas treatment and only of minor relevance in industrial applications.
Therefore, the aim of this Special Issue is to attract researchers and practitioners on the possibilities and applicability of biological waste air and waste gas treatment technologies. This Special Issue will accept original/review research that addresses the following topics:
- Legal framework to achieve 1.5 °C global warming target of the Paris agreement
- Innovative ventilation concepts to enhance energy efficiency / emission management
- Technical trends in biological waste air and waste gas treatment
- New approaches in sustainable agricultural or industrial waste air treatment
- Trends in emission management
- Combination of biological and non-biological waste air treatment technologies to deal with complex waste air scenarios
- Reuse concepts of waste air
- New approaches to improve the performance and demand for resources by sole or combined biological waste air treatment systems
- Industrial case studies
- Costs of waste air treatment technologies / approaches (constructive, operational)
Prof. Dr. Karl Heinrich Engesser
Dr. Daniel Dobslaw
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- biological waste air treatment
- waste gas treatment
- emission control
- combined processes
- sustainability
- energy efficiency
- treatment performance
- re-use