Various Adsorbents for Water Purification Processes, Volume II

Dear Colleagues,

Currently, one of the main problems of global importance is the increasing amount of pollution generated into the environment due to the intensive development of industry, the use of its goods and active human activity. Particular attention is paid to those industries that consume considerable amounts of water in technological processes and thus generate significant amounts of wastewater containing harmful and toxic substances posing an immediate threat to the health and life of living organisms, including humans. Heavy metal ions, metalloids and various types of organic compounds such as dyes, pesticides, surfactants, phenols, WWA and many others are particularly dangerous. Therefore, there is a need to remove them and monitor their concentration in the environment so that the permissible standards are not exceeded and in order to avoid legal consequences.

Adsorption or its combination with other techniques enables effective removal, sorption and separation of organic and inorganic impurities using various types of materials, i.e. functionalized and non-functionalized polymeric resins, carbon type sorbents, natural and synthetic oxide materials, clay minerals and zeolites, biopolymers, biomass, low-cost adsorbents, composite and hybrid materials. Therefore, attempts to search for effective adsorbents and assess their adsorption properties play an important role from a cognitive and application point of view.

It is our pleasure to invite you to submit to this Special Issue research articles and review papers as well as short communications discussing the recent developments in the field of synthesis, modification, physicochemical characteristics (physicochemical parameters modifications, for example, connected with the solubility, stability, crosslinking), and evaluation of adsorption properties of different materials to obtain adsorbents for applications in water and wastewater treatment  and purification processes. The topics of the papers to be submitted to this Special Issue are defined, but not limited, by the keywords presented below.

Dr. Monika Wawrzkiewicz
Dr. Anna Wołowicz
Guest Editors

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