Application of Microorganisms in Wastewater Treatment

Dear Colleagues,

Wastewaters are generated from many different sources and represent thousands of tons of organic matter. Wastewater treatment is a biological process used to remove contaminants from wastewater or sewage and convert it into an effluent that can be returned to the water cycle with minimum impact on the environment, or directly reused. Wastewater treatment facilities are designed to allow the natural process of the breakdown of pollution to occur under controlled conditions. These systems include physical and chemical processes to remove solids and heavier materials. Microorganisms and their enzymes for waste, wastewater treatment, and bioremediation play an important role in these processes. The treatment of wastewater is part of the overarching field of sanitation. Different microbial communities can consume various complex organic compounds and decompose them in their metabolism. Thus, the application of different groups of microorganisms and increasing their metabolic activity for detoxification of water from different pollutants, of both organic and non-organic nature, is a pressing problem at present.

The main goal of this Special Issue is to collect manuscripts focused on the microbial application in wastewater treatment, main chemical compounds present in wastewater, and their effect on microbial respiration activity of sewage sludge, aerobically degradation or utilized by a sewage sludge bacterial consortium.

Dr. Ivan Kushkevych
Dr. Jan Küver
Prof. Dr. Oksana Stolyar
Guest Editors

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