Sustainable Environmental Science and Water/Wastewater Treatment

Dear Colleagues,

In a rapidly globalizing world, it is crucial for industries to consider waste minimization and therefore adopt and implement environmentally friendly and sustainable/circular waste/water/wastewater management and treatment strategies. For this purpose, priority should be given to the reuse of the treated process stream, recovery of beneficial nutrients, and valorization of waste/wastewater-derived by-products to create a more eco-friendly and sustainable production model. On the other hand, due to the limiting high costs and the various process-related difficulties associated with traditional methods, there is a need to explore cost-effective, manageable, environmentally sound, and profitable treatment methods that will effectively remove/recover excess nutrients/contaminants from industrial waste streams. In this context, it is critical and urgent to deploy proper innovative and techno-sustainable water/wastewater treatment solutions from an environmental standpoint, while fulfilling the expanding industrial demands worldwide.

This Special Issue entitled "Sustainable Environmental Science and Water/Wastewater Treatment" will cover ground-breaking approaches to innovative water and wastewater treatment and environmental research that promote sustainability. To this end, this Special Issue aims to highlight and disseminate sustainable, ecologically responsible and solution-oriented economic strategies and cutting-edge technologies to reduce anthropogenic/industrial environmental risks.

High-caliber manuscripts with novel insights or findings as well as reviews with fresh viewpoints are encouraged for this Special Issue. This Special Issue welcomes papers with original perspectives or pertinent case studies on the following subjects:

• Innovative and sustainable methods for water/wastewater treatment;
• Valorization of waste-derived by-products from industrial effluents;
• Sustainable/circular water/wastewater management solutions;
• Techno-economic analysis of sustainable environmental technologies;
• Life-cycle assessment of water/wastewater treatment systems;
• Recovering value-added materials from industrial waste streams;
• Nutrient recovery from slaughterhouse/agro-industrial wastewaters;
• Eco-friendly, product-oriented and technologically sustainable processes;
• Utilization of waste-originated additives in sustainable cement production;
• Application of struvite (MAP) precipitation for removal/recovery of nutrients;
• Modeling of water and wastewater treatment processes.

Manuscripts covering other subjects demonstrating the necessity of sustainable environmental science and water/wastewater treatment are also invited for submission.

References:

Yetilmezsoy, K., Dinç-Şengönül, B., Ilhan, F., Kıyan, E., Yüzer, N. (2022), “Use of sheep slaughterhouse-derived struvite in the production of environmentally sustainable cement and fire-resistant wooden structures”, Journal of Cleaner Production 366, 132948, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.132948.

Yetilmezsoy, K., Kıyan, E., Ilhan, F., Özçimen, D., Koçer, A.T. (2022), “Screening plant growth effects of sheep slaughterhouse waste-derived soil amendments in greenhouse trials”, Journal of Environmental Management 318, 115586, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.115586.

Yetilmezsoy, K., Ilhan, F., Kiyan, E.,  Bahramian, M. (2022), “A comprehensive techno-economic analysis of income-generating sources on the conversion of real sheep slaughterhouse waste stream into valorized by-products, Journal of Environmental Management 306, 114464, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.114464.

Yetilmezsoy, K., Çetinkaya, A.Y., Bilgili, L. (2022), “A synergistic assessment of bio-kinetics and life cycle environmental impacts of different agricultural biomass sources in Turkey, Waste and Biomass Valorization 13, 2651–2671, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12649-021-01674-w.

Ozdemir S., Ozdemir S., Ozer H., Yetilmezsoy K. (2021), “A techno-sustainable bio-waste management strategy for closing chickpea yield gap”, Waste Management 119, 356–364, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasman.2020.10.030.

Ozdemir, S., Yetilmezsoy, K. (2020), “A mini literature review on sustainable management of poultry abattoir wastes”, Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management 22, 11–21, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10163-019-00934-1.

Ozdemir, S., Ozdemir, S., Yetilmezsoy K. (2019), “Agro-economic and ecological assessment of poultry abattoir sludge as bio-nutrient source for walnut plantation in low-fertility soil”, Environmental Progress & Sustainable Energy 38, 1–7, https://doi.org/10.1002/ep.13225.

Varouchakis, E.A., Yetilmezsoy, K., Karatzas, G.P. (2019), “A decision-making framework for sustainable management of groundwater resources under uncertainty: Combination of Bayesian risk approach and statistical tools”, Water Policy 21, 602–622, https://doi.org/10.2166/wp.2019.128.

Abdul-Wahab, S.A., Hassan, E.M., Al-Jabri, K.S., Yetilmezsoy, K. (2019), “Application of zeolite/kaolin combination for replacement of partial cement clinker to manufacture environmentally sustainable cement in Oman”, Environmental Engineering Research 24, 246–253, https://doi.org/10.4491/eer.2018.047.

Prof. Dr. Kaan Yetilmezsoy
Guest Editor

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