Innovative Technologies and Strategies for Energy and Resource Recovery from Waste and Wastewater
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Science and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2021) | Viewed by 18202
Special Issue Editors
Interests: wastewater treatment; water treatment; wastewater engineering; groundwater remediation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce the Special Issue entitled “Innovative Technologies and Strategies for Energy and Resource Recovery from Waste and Wastewater”. In recent years, novel paradigms regarding circular economy have spread throughout the globe, showing the possibility of a more sustainable approach to waste and wastewater treatment and management. In particular, waste streams (solid, liquid, and gaseous alike) are no longer seen as non-usable assets, but rather as a mining ground from which to obtain valuable resources, including energy (in different forms, including heat and electricity) and nutrients. To achieve this goal, a plethora of technologies have been developed and integrated in the modern waste cycle.
Contributions are invited for manuscripts describing new innovation models, frameworks, and findings that address new developments and processes in this area, as well as new successful and/or environmentally sustainable applications and concepts, including challenges such as:
- Research on sustainable technological challenges and assessments in the water, wastewater, solid waste areas, including the reduction of ecological and carbon footprints, recycling and reuse of materials, and energy from a comprehensive perspective according to circular economy principles;
- Research on nutrient recovery under various aspects, including modeling;
- Research on energy production from waste and wastewater, including anaerobic digestion, pyrolysis, gasification, and bioelectrochemical systems;
- Sustainable waste and wastewater management, with a focus on reuse and recycle aspects and economics and governance aspects. Of interest are innovative approaches and tools available for supporting and delivering sustainable water/wastes management that is inclusive, resilient, and adaptive;
- Comparative, analytical, and empirical studies on projects and initiatives responding to sustainable environment-related challenges with paradigm innovation approaches.
Dr. Daniele Cecconet
Dr. Saba Daneshgar
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- resource recovery
- energy from waste(water)
- microbial fuel cells
- modelling
- sustainability
- circular economy
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