Advanced Oxidation Processes for Water Treatment
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 February 2022) | Viewed by 1246
Special Issue Editors
Interests: water-treatment technologies; advanced oxidation processes; environmental protection
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Since the 1980s we have been witnessing the advances in chemical/physical water and wastewater treatment processes termed advanced oxidation processes (AOPs). AOPs have shown great potential in treating pollutants in drinking water, wastewaters, industrial effluents etc., even they can be used as a disinfection technique. Simultaneously, water shortage is becoming increasingly serious problem in the world and very soon we will be in a need to reuse and reclaim wastewater besides releasing it without pollutants to natural environment. AOPs are processes that can be a solution for these requirements.
They are characterized, during the water treatment, by generation of hydroxyl radicals (OH·) or sulfate radicals (SO4·−) to remove different organic matters, traceable organic contaminants, emerging pollutants, inorganic pollutants, or to increase wastewater biodegradability. They can be used as an additional treatment step in existing wastewater treatment plants, but first we must increase their efficiency and cost-efficacy.
This Special Issue aims to present recent findings in the process of trying to increase the AOPs efficacy and to suite them to be used in real water/wastewater treatment plants.
Potential topics include but are not limited to:
- ozone based processes (with or without H2O2)
- UV-based processes (with or without H2O2)
- photocatalytic processes (UV or visible light driven)
- Fenton or Photo-Fenton processes
- ultrasound based processes
- persulfate oxidation processes (heat, UV, Fe(II))
- electric discharge processes
- ionizing radiation processes
- pulsed plasma processes
Prof. Dr. Davor Ljubas
Dr. Hrvoje Juretić
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- advanced oxidation processes
- hydroxyl radicals
- sulfate radicals
- chemical oxidation
- organic pollutants
- inorganic pollutants
- emerging contaminants
- wastewater
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