Novel Processes for Emerging Contaminants Degradation: Current Research and Future Prospects

Dear Colleagues,

Water is essential for life. However, millions of people around the world suffer from water shortages and struggle daily to find safe drinking water to meet their basic needs. Faced with this growing shortage of water, the treatment of wastewater for reuse seems to be the best alternative regarding the use of this wastewater, especially in agriculture, which requires this type of water to comply with the legislation in force. Water pollution by organic matter is a global problem whose aspects and scope are evidently different depending on the level of development of the country.  It is important that the concentrations of pollutants are as low as possible. The World Health Organization (WHO) considers that 80% of diseases that affect the world's population are directly carried by water when it is polluted by bacteria or persistent toxic substances. In recent decades, advanced oxidation (AOP) processes have been considered to be very promising methods for emerging contaminants degradation. Many studies have been conducted in recent years, which have demonstrated that AOP can effectively degrade a wide variety of micropollutants and microcontaminants through the production of hydroxyl and other radical oxygen species. These technologies are all based on the production of radical entities, in particular hydroxyl radicals, which are the most powerful oxidizing species after fluorine that can be used in the field of water treatment and industrial effluents.

However, much progress remains to be made in the field of emerging contaminants degradation. Treatment methods are constantly evolving in order to respond in a specific way to the context in which the treatment plants are located.

This Special Issue on "Novel Processes for Emerging Contaminants Degradation: Current Research and Future Prospects" aims to collect new research and studies on highly efficient, advanced technologies that can be used in the degradation of emerging contaminants.

Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Diagnostics and critical study of established emerging contaminants degradation methods;
• Development of novel processes for emerging contaminants degradation;
• Design of pelote units using novel methodologies of degradation of emerging contaminants.

Dr. Ahlem Guesmi
Dr. Naoufel Ben Hamadi
Guest Editors

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• waste treatment
• emerging contaminant
• nanowaste
• micropollutant
• treatment of polluted soils
• volatile organic compounds