Resource Recovery and Sustainable Biomass Waste and Wastewater Management
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sustainability and Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2026 | Viewed by 10
Special Issue Editors
Interests: waste and wastewater recycling; environmental microorganisms
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Interests: wastewater treatment; environmental functional materials
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
A large number of biomass wastes and different kinds of wastewater are produced in the world every year. Waste and wastewater bring a great burden to the environment. Sustainable development is crucial to social development. Waste and wastewater can be treated as resources to make up for the shortage of petrochemical resources. Biomass waste and wastewater have the potential to be converted into biofuels and bioenergy for resource recovery. Thus, this Special Issue aims to highlight innovative treatment and technologies for the conversion of various biomass waste (including industrial by-products, municipal solid waste, agricultural residues, microalgae, etc.) and different kinds of wastewater into biofuels and bioenergy, such as biodiesel, biogas, volatile fatty acids, bioplastics, etc.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following subjects:
(1) Innovative pretreatment of biomass waste for biofuel production;
(2) New technology for efficient recovery of nutrients from wastewater;
(3) Exploration and application of microbial resources for efficient conversion of waste or wastewater;
(4) Microbiological mechanism of efficient conversion of biomass or wastewater;
(5) New technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning for biomass and wastewater treatment.
Dr. Jinsong Liang
Dr. Longyi Lv
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- biomass waste
- wastewater
- sustainable development
- biofuel
- biorefinery
- artificial intelligence
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