Recent Advances in Efficient Contaminant Removal Technologies for Wastewater and Soil
A Special Issue of Processes (ISSN 2227-9717) belonging to the section "Environmental and Green Processes".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 January 2027 | Viewed by 251
Editors
Interests: constructed wetlands; resource recovery; emerging contaminants
Interests: nitrite removal; ecological restoration; resource recovery
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Wastewater and contaminated soil are major reservoirs and migration pathways for nutrients, heavy metals, antibiotics, pesticides, persistent organic pollutants, pathogens, and emerging contaminants. With increasing industrialization, agricultural intensification, urban expansion, and climate-driven water stress, conventional treatment and remediation processes are facing growing challenges, including insufficient removal efficiency, high energy and chemical consumption, secondary pollution, and limited adaptability to complex contaminant mixtures. Therefore, efficient, sustainable, and process-oriented technologies are urgently needed to improve contaminant removal, resource recovery, and environmental risk control in wastewater and soil systems.
This Special Issue, “Recent Advances in Efficient Contaminant Removal Technologies for Wastewater and Soil”, seeks high-quality original research articles and reviews focusing on innovative materials, processes, mechanisms, and integrated systems for contaminant removal and remediation. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Advanced oxidation and reduction processes;
- Adsorption and membrane separation;
- Biochar- and nanomaterial-based remediation;
- Microbial, electrochemical, and bioelectrochemical treatment;
- Nutrient and heavy metal removal;
- Removal of antibiotics, pesticides, PFAS, microplastics, and other emerging contaminants;
- Soil washing, stabilization, phytoremediation, and bioremediation;
- Sludge and waste-derived functional materials;
- Process optimization, modelling, life-cycle assessment, and field-scale applications for wastewater and soil remediation.
Dr. Le Zhong
Dr. Jiannan Li
Guest Editors
Dr. Kaikai Wu
Guest Editor Assistant
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- wastewater treatment
- soil remediation
- emerging contaminants
- advanced oxidation processes
- adsorption
- biochar
- membrane separation
- bioelectrochemical systems
- heavy metals
- resource recovery
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