Advanced Technologies Used for Water Remediation

Dear Colleagues,

Global water security meets increasing pressure due to the steady release of a wide spectrum of contaminants into the hydrological cycle. These challenges arise from both legacy industrial discharges and newer, complex chemical substances, all contributing significantly to the degradation of environmental water quality and posing notable risks to ecological systems and public health. Conventional water treatment processes, which are primarily based on non-specific phase separation and bulk biological degradation, often show insufficient efficacy against recalcitrant, complex, or low-concentration pollutants present in varied matrices. This basic operational gap typically results in reduced removal efficiencies and failure to meet standards with increasingly stringent discharge and reuse criteria. Furthermore, the typical operational limitations of traditional systems—namely, their intensive chemical consumption, high energy footprint, and significant sludge generation—highlight their limitations in achieving the ultra-clean water quality targets essential for modern reuse applications. Therefore, there is a critical and urgent need to move beyond established boundaries by investigating, optimizing, and using innovative, sustainable, and highly efficient Advanced Technologies to protect water quality, ensure regulatory compliance, and fully facilitate effective water recovery and recycling across municipal, agricultural, and industrial areas.

This Special Issue, titled “Advanced Technologies Used for Water Remediation” seeks high-quality contributions that address the current limitations of established water treatment methods by focusing on new, effective, and highly efficient remediation solutions for the contaminants. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Development and optimization of advanced oxidation processes, including photocatalysis, ozonation, and electrochemical oxidation, for contaminant mineralization.
• Next-generation membrane technologies for high-efficiency and low-fouling separation.
• Synthesis and application of novel adsorbent materials for targeted removal of trace pollutants.
• Innovative utilization of electrochemical methods for complex wastewater treatment.
• Integration and performance assessment of hybrid treatment systems for synergistic pollutant removal.
• Enhanced bioremediation and phytoremediation strategies, including engineered systems for managing persistent organic pollutants.

Modeling, process simulation, and life cycle assessment of advanced remediation technologies to determine sustainability and scalability.

Prof. Dr. Gamze Varank
Dr. Emine Can-Güven
Dr. Senem Yazici Yazici Guvenc
Guest Editors

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• water remediation
• advanced technologies
• advanced oxidation processes
• membrane filtration
• electrochemical treatment
• water reuse
• wastewater management
• sustainable remediation