Sustainable Technologies for Wastewater Treatment & Soil Remediation

Dear Colleagues,

Industrial development, unplanned urbanization, and rapid population growth have led to serious environment and human health concerns. Among the various factors, discharge from industries plays a key role in polluting water bodies, which reduces the already limited drinking water sources of an ever-growing population. Such unplanned industrial discharge further leads to soil pollution and contamination of the ground water table. Hence, with the ever-growing public concern about the environment and stringent governmental regulations, it is necessary to explore novel technologies to treat such wastewater. Biological treatment technologies and/or nature-based solutions involving microorganisms or plants are considered a low-cost, sustainable, and environment-friendly method for treating industrial effluents and restoring polluted land. Furthermore, biological treatment provides options for resource recovery from wastes in the form of biomass, bioenergy, and commercially important bioproducts. The zero liquid discharge goal could be achieved with advanced membrane technologies. Another model that has attracted a lot of attention recently is the waste-fed biorefinery concept, in which a wide range of products are obtained from waste using biochemical routes. Therefore, the key focus in this area of research currently is sustainable pollution mitigation using biological methods toward achieving a circular economy.

In this regard, the present Special Issue will highlight relevant topics such as recent innovation in bioremediation and phytoremediation of industrial effluents, biological soil remediation technologies, biological treatment of solid wastes, application of advanced technologies such as genetic engineering, nanotechnology, and membrane technology approach for process improvement, biological valorization of waste for production of bioenergy, and value-added products.    

Dr. Achlesh Daverey
Dr. Arindam Sinharoy
Dr. Bhaskar Jyoti Deka
Guest Editors

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