Novel Materials for Wastewater Treatment and Environmental Protection
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Simulation and Design".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 January 2023) | Viewed by 4613
Special Issue Editors
Interests: wastewater treatment; novel materials; nanomaterials; heavy metals removal; phtocatalysis
Interests: environmental protection,wastewater treatment, novel materials,
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Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue will collect the latest and most significant scientific advances and review articles relating to all technological advances and materials innovations in the field of wastewater treatment and environmental protection.
In recent decades, one of the major environmental problems we have had to face is the reclamation of water bodies, including seas, lakes, rivers, and aquifers, polluted by different classes of chemicals, such as heavy metals, organic compounds, endocrine-disrupting chemicals, pharmaceuticals, dyes, detergents, bacteria, plastics, etc. In this regard, the development of new technologies, materials, and models play a crucial role in the defense of the environment and human health.
The use of materials of different origins (natural, polymeric, inorganic, organic, hybrid, etc.) for the removal of dangerous contaminants through adsorption, degradation, and/or transformation processes are considered to be of particular interest. The use of materials whose production or supply is of low environmental and economic impact, natural substrates, and/or waste materials suitably modified for such applications is encouraged. Experimentation with innovative membranes and nanomaterials for the desalination and separation of contaminants from industrial process waters is another research area that falls within the topic of this Special Issue. Particular importance stems from their characterization, the estimation of their purifying capacities, and the understanding and modeling of the processes at play. New experimental and theoretical approaches are encouraged.
This Special Issue will also discuss new uses of polymer-based materials as ecological adsorbents for the removal of inorganic and organic pollutants from the environment, both at the laboratory and industrial scale. New technologies for the removal of inorganic or organic pollutants from the environment that are ecological and respect the principles of sustainable development are preferred. Authors can submit their work related to the main aspects of polymer-based materials used as adsorbents for the removal of inorganic and organic pollutants from the environment, e.g., the synthesis and characterization of polymer-based adsorbents, methods and procedures of removing inorganic and organic pollutants from the environment (wastewater; contaminated soils; polluted air), valorisation possibilities of exhausted polymer-based adsorbents, etc. Submissions related to recycling, environmental impacts, and policies of polymer-based material valorisation in the context of the circular economy are also encouraged.
Dr. Cristina Ileana Covaliu - Mierla
Prof. Dr. Gigel Paraschiv
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- innovative wastewater treatment technologies
- environmental depollution
- removal of emergent contaminants
- advanced oxidation processes
- adsorption of inorganic and organic contaminants from water
- photocatalytic degradation of pollutants such as bacteria and viruses
- advanced membrane technology and nanomaterials for water and wastewater applications
- characterization methods for innovative materials
- implementation of adsorption kinetics models
- design of chemical-physical-biological systems for wastewater remediation
- polymer-based materials
- ecological adsorbents
- environmental protection
- pollutants removal
- wastewater treatments
- soils remediation
- treatment of polluted air
- recycling
- circular economy
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