Bioengineering in Remediation of Polluted Environments

Dear Colleagues,

Contamination is a global issue affecting human health and the integrity of environmental matrices including soil, sediment, and water. Surely, anthropogenic activities have a great impact on pollution, being responsible for the release into the environment of organic and inorganic toxic compounds.

Risks linked to environmental pollution attract a great amount of scientific interest worldwide, aiming at the development of new environmentally friendly, rapid, and efficient clean-up technologies for the restoration of contaminated sites.

Among these, bioremediation technologies are considered the most promising ones in terms of environmental sustainability, exploiting the metabolic capabilities of specialized microorganisms for the transformation and/or removal of organic and inorganic pollutants. Moreover, bioremediation technologies can increase the intrinsic natural remediation activity of contaminated sites by applying advantageous operating conditions to increase both biological activity and contaminant mobilization.

This Special Issue focuses on recent findings in bioengineering for the remediation of various polluted environments from different perspectives including (micro)biology and process engineering. Topics include, but are not limited to the following:

- Innovative biotechnology solutions, including bioelectrochemical technologies, for the remediation of contaminated environmental matrices;

- Sustainable materials employed in bioremediation technologies;

- Bioprocess scale-up from laboratory microcosms to larger scale, including field applications;

- Microbiological and biomolecular investigations on the role of microorganisms in bioremediation technologies, including novel biomonitoring solutions;

- Multidisciplinary case studies of efficient bioremediation technologies for the restoration of contaminated sites.

Our efforts will be focused on collecting original papers and reviews to cover the latest advances and novel perspectives contributing to knowledge implementation in the field of bioengineering applied to the remediation of contaminated sites. 

Dr. Bruna Matturro
Dr. Marco Zeppilli
Guest Editors

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