New Technology for Wastewater Treatment and Energy Production

Dear Colleagues,

Technological innovation plays a key role in addressing the growing challenges associated with wastewater treatment, resource recovery, and sustainable energy production. Rapid advances in environmental biotechnology, unconventional materials, technologies, and processes are creating new opportunities to improve wastewater treatment efficiency while simultaneously enabling energy recovery from wastewater and sewage sludge.
This Special Issue focuses on new and advanced technologies for wastewater treatment and energy recovery, aiming to highlight innovative processes/technologies that enhance the removal of pollutants, including micropollutants, while improving energy efficiency and enabling the production of renewable energy carriers such as biogas, biohydrogen, or electricity. We invite the submission of original research articles and review papers addressing cutting-edge technologies and innovative wastewater treatment processes, as well as integrated systems combining wastewater treatment with energy production. Particular attention will be paid to novel reactor configurations, hybrid systems, and approaches such as modeling and optimization that improve process performance and support the development of environmentally efficient and energy self-sufficient wastewater treatment plants. Contributions presenting pilot-scale or full-scale implementations of new technologies are especially welcome.

Dr. Joanna Czarnota
Dr. Adam Masłoń
Dr. Aleksandra Szaja
Guest Editors

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