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Environmental Technology Applied to Pollution Research: Monitoring, Analysis and Remediation
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Environmental Technology Applied to Pollution Research: Monitoring, Analysis and Remediation

A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sciences".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2024 | Viewed by 663

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Angel DelValls

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Environmental Science and Technology Department, University of Santa Cecilia, Santos 11045-907, Brazil
Interests: water treatment; wastewater purification; circular economy; brine mining; mining; environment; teaching and learning; CO2 acidification; Global Change; GHGs mitigation; environmental impact assessment; environmental analysis; environmental pollution; environmental monitoring
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Dr. Flor Arcega-Cabrera

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Guest Editor
Unidad de Química en Sisal, Facultad de Química, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Puerto de Abrigo S/N, Sisal 97355, Yucatán, Mexico
Interests: geochemistry and environmental pollution; water chemistry; hydrology; rivers: geochemistry; environment; environmental monitoring; environmental analysis; environmental pollution; drinking; water quality heavy metals

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue will describe different applications of technologies for mitigation and remediation of contaminated fluids and waters. Additionally, it will include research relating to the integration of sources, inputs, adverse effects and accumulation of pollutants into the aquatic ecosystems and organisms. Additionally, it will be focused on socioenvironmental aspects supported by different technologies to analyze, monitorize and remediate aquatic ecosystems of socioeconomical interest. This will contribute to increasing knowledge on the technological approaches to remediate and mitigate the effects of pollutants that access to the aquatic ecosystem and their fate, including their mobility through the food chain to humans. It is expected to increase knowledge of the pollution of aquatic ecosystems and their remediation and mitigation, of the resilience of marine organisms to pollutants and of their contamination, highlighting the adverse effects also because of climate change.

In addition, new approaches and technologies designed to fight against the pollution and global change effects on the aquatic ecosystems through a circular economy approach will be welcome, addressing current efforts to avoid the impact of either increase in contamination, pollution and global change.

Some topics of interest to be covered by the Special Issue include, but are not limited to:

  • Technologies for environmental protection, remediation and mitigation;
  • Purification technologies for fluid contamination;
  • Implications of anthropogenic effects on the aquatic ecosystems;
  • Pollutants in aquatic ecosystems from environmental matrix to organisms adverse effects;
  • The influence of climate change on the seasonal behavior of pollutants;
  • Decontamination of industrial or contaminated waters as sources of pollution in the aquatic ecosystem;
  • Industrial and mining waters for a circular economy;
  • Waste water from agricultural and livestock activities for GHGs mitigation;
  • Avoiding the impact of desalinization and brine production as a source of water in Global Change;
  • Socioenvironmental technologies;
  • Pollutants and human health risk assessment;
  • Emerging contaminants in the Global Change and their effects on aquatic ecosystems;
  • Disruptive technologies for remediation and mitigation of emerging contaminants;
  • CO2 acidification and its impact as a Global Change consequence;
  • Water supplies under Global Change scarcity: desalinization and brine impacts.

Prof. Dr. Angel DelValls
Dr. Flor Arcega-Cabrera
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Applied Sciences is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • environmental technologies
  • water chemistry
  • wastewater purification
  • water and sediment ecotoxicology
  • circular economy
  • socioenvironmental analysis
  • scientific technology
  • environmental management
  • remediation and mitigation technologies
  • monitoring
  • climate changes effects
  • GHGs emission and remediation
  • mining and industrial waters
  • CO2 acidification
  • contamination and pollution
  • dredged material and rare earth elements mining
  • desalinization and brine mining
  • emerging contaminants
  • european green deal
  • sustainable development goals

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Can Hediste diversicolor Speed Up the Breakdown of Cigarette Butts in Marine Sediments?
by Mercedes Conradi, J. Emilio Sánchez-Moyano, Francisco J. Rodríguez-Martín and Javier Bayo
Appl. Sci. 2024, 14(11), 4409; https://doi.org/10.3390/app14114409 - 23 May 2024
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Cigarette butts (CBs) are non-biodegradable harmful residues of synthetic origin and are widespread in marine environments around the world. Although environmental factors are often primarily responsible for the fragmentation of microplastics in the marine environment, biotic factors have recently been shown to be [...] Read more.
Cigarette butts (CBs) are non-biodegradable harmful residues of synthetic origin and are widespread in marine environments around the world. Although environmental factors are often primarily responsible for the fragmentation of microplastics in the marine environment, biotic factors have recently been shown to be equally important in plastic debris. This study evaluates the role of the Hediste diversicolor polychaete in the fragmentation of CBs in the marine environment. Polychaetes were exposed to three concentrations of CB (0 (as the control), 0.25, and 1 butt L−1) at two different temperatures (15 °C and 23 °C) for 28 days. At each temperature, aquaria without polychaetes were used to study the effect of the burrowing activity of the polychaete on CB fragmentation. Toxicants analysed from exposed sediments increased their concentration in a dose-dependent manner to the CB concentration at a temperature of 15 °C but not at 23 °C. CBs did not directly decrease Hediste survival, but prolonged elevated temperatures increased the polychaetes’ susceptibility. The negative effects of CBs on burial success and burrowing behaviour could not be offset by the reduced start time caused by elevated temperatures. Regardless of temperature, both the weight loss and physical fragmentation of CBs buried in polychaete-contaminated sediments were significantly higher than those without Hediste, with no differences between the two concentrations tested. FTIR-ATR analysis used to evaluate CB degradation in relation to cellulose acetate decomposition showed a greater degradation of this compound in treatments with Hediste than in those without polychaetes (~2.75 times), but these differences were not significant. This study is a promising initial step for future research, as any factor that facilitates the fragmentation of this prevalent and hazardous waste must be carefully studied to extract the maximum benefit to help to reduce CBs in the marine environment. Full article
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