Water Pollution and Wastewater Treatment Chemistry

Dear Colleagues,

We would like to invite you to contribute an original research paper or a review article to this Special Issue of Applied Sciences, entitled “Water Pollution and Wastewater Treatment Chemistry”, for peer review and possible publication.

The continuous growth of socio-economic development in human society requires the utilization of increasing quantities of water and, in most cases, demands a specific water quality. There is a clear difference, however, between the quality of natural water resources (groundwater and surface waters), the quality of treated or untreated wastewater (WW), and the quality of water required by consumers (as drinking water, irrigation water, industrial water, etc.). This difference can be eliminated or minimized with the application of appropriate water and/or wastewater treatment technologies.

A ‘good’ water quality is required in all natural resources in all communities around the world, especially in surface waters which support a wide range of discharges (wanted or non-wanted/accidental with residual pollutants). Wastewater treatment has now become a necessity as natural resources are rapidly depleting while the demand for water continues to increase for all domestic and commercial human consumption.

Many pollution episodes are caused by the discharge of inadequately treated effluents and therefore require the adequate control of and improvement of the performance of water/wastewater treatment processes through either of the following: the separation of impurities from water/wastewater, i.e., based on fluid mechanics (sedimentation, centrifugation, filtration, flotation, or synthetic membranes as micro-, ultra-, and nanofiltration, as well as reverse osmosis), in association with physical–chemical processes for the separation of dissolved or emulsified compounds from different types of processed waters/wastewaters (chemical precipitation, adsorption onto granular activated charcoal and coagulation–flocculation, ionic exchange, disinfection by chlorination or ozonation, and others), or through the partial or complete mineralization of contaminants (advanced oxidation with ozone, hydrogen peroxide in the presence of specific catalysts and UV/natural solar radiation, different biological (enzymatic) and individual chemical or mixed processes in activated sludge basin/reactor, or membrane bioreactors).

We welcome contributions of original unpublished research papers or review articles focusing on, but not limited to, new water/wastewater treatment concepts; mechanism interpretations for reducing water pollution and the improvement of wastewater treatment; control of aquatic polluting species chemistry in different applications; new advanced methods of water analysis and their applications in wastewater characterization and water pollution level assessments; supervising monitoring and remediation/depollution implementation action; and water management practices.

Dr. Carmen Zaharia
Guest Editor

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