Innovative Approaches to Sustainable Wastewater Treatment—Recent Developments in Hazardous Pollutants Removal
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Green Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2025 | Viewed by 88
Special Issue Editors
Interests: emerging micropollutions; heavy metals; noble metals; dyes; phenols; adsorption; ion exchange; photochemistry; wastewater treatment; removal of inorganic and organic pollution from wastewaters; adsorbents for wastewater treatment; ion exchangers; synthesis and characterization of hybrid adsorbents and composites; environmental protection
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Interests: sorption; separation of inorganic and organic compounds; heavy metal ions; dyes; phenols; textile wastewater treatment; chemical modification of synthetic and natural polymers; adsorbents for water treatment; photochemistry; synthesis and characterization of hybrid adsorbents containing biocomponents and composites; environmental protection
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Industries are significant water consumers and consume about one quarter of the total water produced, resulting in the generation of huge amounts of wastewater, which subsequently affects the environment. As forecasts show, water consumption will continue to increase until 2050, which will cause serious problems regarding access to clean and high-quality drinking water. Industrial wastewater released to the environment may contain various compositions and numerous suspended or dissolved contaminants; therefore, the development of innovative and extremely efficient removal methods is of particular concern.
This Special Issue is dedicated to the discussion and exchange of information pertaining to new, innovative and sustainable wastewater treatment technologies, with particular consideration for textile and metallurgy wastewaters. Therefore, we are pleased to invite you to submit experimental scientific articles, review articles and short communications discussing the latest developments in wastewater treatment technologies for emerging micropollutants. Topics of the papers to be submitted to this Special Issue are defined, but not limited, by the keywords presented.
In this Special Issue, we particularly welcome papers related to the following topics:
- Innovative approaches to industrial wastewater treatment technologies;
- New approaches for treatment methodology;
- Research on various (bio)sorbents for dye and heavy metal removal from aqueous solutions and wastewater;
- Solutions in the field of sustainable development in the context of reducing pollution in wastewater;
- Literature reviews and comparative analyses of available treatment methods.
Dr. Anna Wołowicz
Dr. Monika Wawrzkiewicz
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- wastewater treatment
- industrial wastewater
- physical methods
- chemical methods
- biological methods
- emerging micropollution
- dyes
- heavy metals
- removal
- (bio)sorbent
- ion exchange resin
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