Special Issue "Industrial Wastewater Treatment and Recycling"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sustainability and Applications".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 October 2021.

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Ahmed Elreedy
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Guest Editor
Department of Applied Biology, Institute of Applied Biosciences, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 76344 Karlsruhe, Germany
Interests: anaerobic digestion; anammox; biological treatment of industrial wastewater; microbial fuel cell; nanomaterials applications in microbial processes
Dr. Mohamed Elsamadony
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Guest Editor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 152-8550 Tokyo, Japan
Interests: anammox; anaerobic digestion; bioenergy from lignocellulosic materials; nanomaterials applications in microbial processes; Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Industrial wastewaters represent a main source of water pollution which severely affects our ecosystem. The problem comes from the wide range of contaminants generated by each type of industry, which affects the suitability and efficiency of treatment processes. The proper characterization of various industrial effluents followed by optimization of the suitable treatment process(es), considering the techno-economic and environmental aspects (including the potentials of recycling and energy/materials recovery), will enable us to efficiently deal with this issue.

The focus of this Special Issue on “Industrial Wastewater Treatment and Recycling” aims to collect up-to-date research articles that explore, examine, and make proposals for optimizing the treatment process(es) dealing with unconventional substrates. Particularly, we are interested in the potential of biological processes, as the most eco-friendly options (e.g., anaerobic digestion, anammox, microbial fuel cells, etc.), to eliminate organic contaminants and generate bioenergy and/or useful chemicals. This Special Issue will incorporate articles that present innovative techniques, analyses, and/or characterizations towards the better understanding/valorization of industrial effluents. We also interested in papers that cover impact assessment tools in terms of social, economic and environmental aspects either in point of use scale or global scale. Tools like life-cycle assessment and SDGs impact assessment give the readers indication about issues that must taking into consideration during the implication of the utilized treatment technology. In addition, we also welcome papers in the form of reviews and case studies.

The Guest Editors will select high-quality research papers to proceed with blind peer reviews. Reviewers will be selected among researchers who are active in the field, whose works are present in international databases.

Within the framework described above, this Special Issue invites authors to contribute papers addressing the following topics:

  • Contaminants in industrial wastewaters;
  • Toxicity;
  • Industrial wastewater treatment systems;
  • Wastewater recycling;
  • Integrated chemical-biological processes for wastewater treatment;
  • Bio-processes for methane and hydrogen production;
  • Bioenergy from lignocellulosic wastes;
  • Bio-processes to produce platform chemicals from wastes;
  • Nanomaterials for the promotion of microbial processes;
  • Bioelectrochemical systems (BESs);
  • SDGs impact assessment;
  • Life-cycle assessment.

Dr. Ahmed Elreedy
Dr. Mohamed Elsamadony
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • biological treatment of industrial wastewater
  • waste-to-energy
  • hydrogen and methane bioproduction
  • bioelectrochemical systems (BESs)
  • anaerobic digestion
  • lignocellulosic waste
  • anammox
  • life-cycle assessment

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A Review of Modeling Rotating Packed Beds and Improving Their Parameters: Gas–Liquid Contact
Sustainability 2021, 13(14), 8046; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13148046 - 19 Jul 2021
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The aim of this review is to investigate a kind of process intensification equipment called a rotating packed bed (RPB), which improves transport via centrifugal force in the gas–liquid field, especially by absorption. Different types of RPB, and their advantages and effects on [...] Read more.
The aim of this review is to investigate a kind of process intensification equipment called a rotating packed bed (RPB), which improves transport via centrifugal force in the gas–liquid field, especially by absorption. Different types of RPB, and their advantages and effects on hydrodynamics, mass transfer, and power consumption under available models, are analyzed. Moreover, different approaches to the modeling of RPB are discussed, their mass transfer characteristics and hydrodynamic features are compared, and all models are reviewed. A dimensional analysis showed that suitable dimensionless numbers could make for a more realistic definition of the system, and could be used for prototype scale-up and benchmarking purposes. Additionally, comparisons of the results demonstrated that Re, Gr, Sc, Fr, We, and shape factors are effective. In addition, a study of mass transfer models revealed that the contact zone was the main area of interest in previous studies, and this zone was not evaluated in the same way as packed beds. Moreover, CFD studies revealed that the realizable k-ε turbulence model and the VOF two-phase model, combined with experimental reaction or mass transfer equations for analyzing hydrodynamic and mass transfer coefficients, could help define an RPB system in a more realistic way. Full article
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