Sustainable Resource Recovery and Waste Processing
A Special Issue of Processes (ISSN 2227-9717) belonging to the section "Sustainable Processes".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2027 | Viewed by 1
Editor
Interests: waste; polymer science; industrial wastes recycling; environmental remediation
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The increasing generation of municipal, industrial, agricultural, construction, and other waste streams represents a major environmental and technological challenge, while simultaneously providing opportunities for recovering materials, energy, chemicals, and other valuable resources. The transition from conventional waste disposal toward circular and resource-efficient systems requires the development of processing technologies capable of reducing environmental impacts, recovering valuable fractions, and converting residues into secondary raw materials and value-added products.
Recent advances in physical, chemical, thermal, biological, and hybrid processing technologies have uncovered new routes for waste separation, treatment, recycling, and valorization. However, significant challenges remain concerning process efficiency, feedstock variability, energy and resource consumption, product quality, scalability, economic feasibility, and environmental performance. Addressing these challenges requires an integrated process-engineering perspective combining experimental investigation, process design, modeling, optimization, monitoring, and sustainability assessment.
This Special Issue, “Sustainable Resource Recovery and Waste Processing”, aims to present and disseminate recent scientific and technological advances in processes for waste treatment, resource recovery, recycling, and valorization. Particular emphasis is placed on innovative processing routes, process optimization and integration, recovery of secondary resources, and the development of technically and environmentally sustainable solutions supporting circular production systems.
Original research articles, review papers, case studies, and studies combining experimental and computational approaches are welcome. Contributions addressing laboratory-, pilot-, and industrial-scale processes are particularly encouraged.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Advanced waste treatment and processing technologies;
- Separation, sorting, and recovery of valuable materials;
- Recycling and reuse of industrial and post-consumer residues;
- Construction, demolition, mineral, and industrial waste processing;
- Recovery of metals, minerals, nutrients, chemicals, and secondary raw materials;
- Waste-derived materials and value-added products;
- Thermal, chemical, biological, and hybrid conversion processes;
- Waste-to-energy and energy recovery processes;
- Process modeling, simulation, optimization, and intensification;
- Artificial intelligence, machine learning, sensing, and automation applied to waste-processing systems;
- Process monitoring, characterization, and quality control;
- Life-cycle assessment, environmental performance, and carbon footprint;
- Techno-economic assessment and process scalability;
- Industrial symbiosis and circular production systems;
- Emerging technologies for zero-waste and resource-efficient processing.
Dr. Mostafa Galal Aboelkheir
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- resource recovery
- waste processing
- waste valorization
- circular economy
- recycling
- secondary raw materials
- sustainable processes
- waste treatment
- process optimization
- waste-derived materials
- industrial waste
- construction and demolition waste
- process modeling
- life cycle assessment
- techno-economic assessment
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