Innovative Materials and Technologies for Pollutants Removal and Green Energy Production and Storage
A special issue of Processes (ISSN 2227-9717). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental and Green Processes".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2025 | Viewed by 283
Special Issue Editors
Interests: environmental engineering and biotechnology; process modelling and optimization; clean technologies; space and terrestrial applications
Interests: applied electrochemistry; remediation of environmental components (water, air and soil); recovery and recycling of valuable components from wastes; process modelling and optimization; energy storage; innovative materials and technological processes; circular economy
Interests: electrochemical environmental technology; (solar) microbial fuel cells; (bio)electrocatalysis; green energy production
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The environmental quality is one of the premises for ensuring the life quality and sustainable development of the society. Therefore, preserving the quality of the environment should belong to every inhabitant of the planet, although unfortunately an increasingly significant alteration is observed in most urban agglomerations, due to the exponential development of the anthropogenic activities at all socio-economic levels, including those related to energy production. Thus, under current conditions, where pollution was already established, the elimination of the pollutants using appropriate customized technologies is a primordial task for the remediation of the affected environmental components. To meet the pollution prevention desiderates, new solutions for green energy production are envisaged, along with the development of new materials for the environmental quality remediation by pollutant removal in a sustainable manner. In the light of the above mentioned aspects, two fundamental directions are outlined, which support the sustainable development of the society and respectively constitute the topics of this special issue. These include, but are not limited to, technological processes (for pollutants removal from different environmental streams or matrices—gaseous/liquid/solid etc.), methods for synthesis of emerging materials (such as biochar, aerogels or other composites based on graphene or carbon nanotubes etc.), preparation of advanced energy production and storage systems (supercapacitors, fuel cells or photovoltaics etc.), strategies for their integration and assessment, modeling and optimization of the involved processes etc., with reference to the terrestrial and/or space applications, while focusing on environmental performance enhancement. Both original research articles and reviews are welcome.
Dr. Gabriela Soreanu
Prof. Dr. Igor Cretescu
Prof. Dr. Manuel Andrés Rodrigo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- air treatment
- soil remediation
- wastewater treatment
- green energy
- bio/electrochemical processes
- life support systems
- chemical and environmental process engineering
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