Removal of Emerging Pollutants from the Environmental Matrices
A special issue of Separations (ISSN 2297-8739). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Separations".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 August 2025 | Viewed by 112
Special Issue Editor
Interests: advanced oxidation processes; environmental chemistry; analytical chemistry; emerging pollutants; wastewater treatment
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Dear Colleagues,
Emerging pollutants (EPs) are synthetic or naturally occurring chemical compounds that are not monitored in the environment and may cause negative ecological effects and threaten human health and life. In light of their potential negative effects, it is urgent to undertake research that will expand the knowledge on the behavior of these compounds in the environment and methods of their removal/elimination from environmental matrices. EPs are persistent and difficult to biodegrade; therefore, conventional treatment technologies are not able to completely remove them. In addition, under the influence of environmental factors, transformation products may be formed, which may pose a greater burden to the environment, thus harming fauna and flora, and may be transferred in the human food chain.
This Special Issue devoted to the "Removal of Emerging Pollutants from the Environmental Matrices" aims to search for high-quality works focusing on expanding the knowledge on methods for the removal/elimination of these compounds and their transformation products from the environment. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Electrochemical treatment methods;
- Advanced oxidation processes;
- Membrane techniques;
- Sorbents and other sorption materials;
- New materials used to eliminate persistent compounds;
- Research on the treatment of wastewater, sludge and waste streams from EPs.
Dr. Waldemar Studziński
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- emerging pollutants (EPs)
- transformation products
- wastewater treatment
- micropollutants
- toxicity
- environmental protection
- removal
- sorption
- separation
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