Concentrate Management and Resource Recovery for Sustainable Future

Dear Colleagues,

The abundance of raw natural resources will obviously come to an end, and the only way to sustain their availability for the foreseeable future is to recover them from various waste streams from now on.  This exercise should become mandatory through policies and practices. One of the best places to start resource recovery is with concentrates emanating from many processes. Energy recovery can also be considered as useful resource recovery process. Resource recovery will lead to zero discharge of wastes from anthropogenic activities and will help to close the loops created by human activities. This will bring natural processes that are taking place in the environment, since pre-human developments, to the forefront once again. This call for papers invites researchers who are working on the above to submit original research papers, critical review articles, case studies and technical notes on the following themes:

• Concentrate management
• Resource recovery from
  • Seawater reverse osmosis concentrate
  • Brackish water reverse osmosis concentrate
  • Process effluents from chemical industries
  • Landfill leachate
  • Process effluents from other biological waste streams
  • Mine tailing ponds
  • Other relevant waste streams
  • Energy recovery
• Zero liquid discharge

Authors are requested to provide clear evidence or potential on how their work will contribute to water sustainability in their manuscripts.

Prof. Dr. Jega Jegatheesan
Dr. Li Shu
Assoc. Prof. Faisal I Hai
Prof. Yang Zhang
Guest Editors

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