Quorum Sensing in Biological Wastewater Treatment Process

Dear Colleagues,

As the most widely used wastewater treatment process, biological wastewater treatment needs further development when facing emerging contaminants, carbon emission reduction, and recovery. Bacterial communication can coordinate population behavior and protect the cells from detrimental conditions, providing new sight for regulating and developing biological wastewater treatment processes. Studies reveal that quorum sensing is closely related to biofilm formation, sludge granulation, and pollutant removal. However, the critical roles of bacterial quorum sensing in sludge community reconstruction, emerging contaminants removal, and carbon resource capture via the adsorption biodegradation process are only beginning to unravel.

Today, we are pleased to invite you to contribute a manuscript to this Special Issue “Quorum sensing in biological wastewater treatment process” in the journal Processes.

Contributors are welcomed to submit reviews and original research articles, including but not limited to the following topics:

• Quorum sensing bacterial and signals identification;
• Quorum sensing and quenching in activated sludge community construction, including biofilm formation and sludge granulation;
• The role of QS in biological emerging pollutes removal and activated sludge carbon capture;
• Quorum sensing and quenching in sludge bulking;
• Quorum sensing signal-response in pollutants removal and resources recovery by microalgae;
• Cell-to-cell communication across the prokaryote–eukaryote boundary.

Dr. Jinfeng Wang
Dr. Liang Fu
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Processes is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

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