Special Issue "Advanced Treatment and Sustainable Utilization of Sewage Water"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Water Management".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 October 2021.

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Junfeng Su
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Guest Editor
School of Environmental and Municipal Engineering, Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology, Xi’an 710055, China
Interests: advanced treatment and bioremediation of groundwater; new theories and technologies for biological denitrification; water treatment microbiology
Dr. Qian Zhang
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Guest Editor
School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China
Interests: energy saving and emission reduction; material metabolism analysis; industrial wastewater treatment
Dr. Sicheng Shao
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Guest Editor
School of Resources and Environment, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei 230036, China
Interests: biological nitrogen and phosphorus removal from wastewater; antibiotic degradation coupled with biological nitrogen removal in wastewater

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Rapid industrialization and population explosion have exacerbated the shortage of global water resources. Sewage water has gained additional scientific and political attention and is viewed as an essential water resource with more exploitability and reusability for sustainable development. To generate good quality water for recycling and reuse, advanced wastewater treatment is essential to resolve stubborn contaminants (i.e., exogenous residue nutrients, refractory metabolic products, transport and removal of micropollutants, and emerging pollutants). Accordingly, there has been a growing interest in innovative advanced wastewater treatment technologies for efficient water purification. Moreover, other potential resources (i.e., organics, nutrients, and thermal heat) along with water recycling are also meaningful to realize the utilization of sewage water.

The aim of the research topic “Advanced Treatment and Sustainable Utilization of Sewage Water” is to provide a suitable platform to publish the latest novel research on the current trends, developments, and applications of technologies to improve existing methods and develop new processes to enhance advanced treatment and reuse of wastewater, raise the standard of effluent for wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), and to realize low-carbon operation and resource recovery in WWTPs. Therefore, this Special Issue calls for contributions to the topics related to the advanced treatment and sustainable utilization of sewage water, which includes new advancements and applications for the efficient remediation of contaminants, improvement and modification of the existing processes, new technologies for recovering resources, sludge treatment and disposal, and dealing with emerging contaminants in the effluent of WWTPs.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Wastewater treatment for sustainable development and environmental safety;
  • Bacteria/fungal/algae-based biological approaches for sustainable degradation of contaminants;
  • Sustainable plant–bacterial remediation for wastewater pollutants;
  • Emerging bioremediation approaches for sustainable degradation of contaminants;
  • Microbial electrochemical technologies for sustainable degradation of contaminants;
  • Hybrid bioreactor treatment systems for pollutants removal;
  • Physicochemical coupled biological processes for sustainable remediation of wastewater pollutants;
  • Hybrid approaches coupling bioremediation with advanced oxidation processes;
  • Membrane microbial fuel cell technologies for complex recycling;
  • New frontiers in view of a circular economy in wastewater treatment and recycling;
  • Molecular aspects of novel integrated bioremediation approaches to identify novel degrading genes, metabolites, metabolic pathways, and plant–microbe mechanisms in wastewater treatment.

We hope that the Special Issue will provide a scientific platform for communicating and exploring state-of-the-art applications in this area.

Prof. Dr. Junfeng Su
Dr. Qian Zhang
Dr. Sicheng Shao
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • wastewater treatment
  • sustainable development
  • sustainable bioremediation
  • phytoremediation
  • bioelectrochemistry
  • microbial fuel cell
  • advanced oxidation processes
  • emerging contaminants

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Preparation of Cellulose/Chitin Blend Materials and Influence of Their Properties on Sorption of Heavy Metals
Sustainability 2021, 13(11), 6460; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13116460 - 07 Jun 2021
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A series of biodegradable cellulose/chitin materials (beads and membranes) were successfully prepared by mixing cellulose with chitin in an NaOH/thiourea–water system and coagulation in a H2SO4 solution. The effects of chitin content on the materials’ mechanical properties, morphology, structure, and [...] Read more.
A series of biodegradable cellulose/chitin materials (beads and membranes) were successfully prepared by mixing cellulose with chitin in an NaOH/thiourea–water system and coagulation in a H2SO4 solution. The effects of chitin content on the materials’ mechanical properties, morphology, structure, and sorption ability for heavy metal ions (Pb2+, Cd2+, and Cu2+) were studied by tensile tests, scanning electron micrographs, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, and atomic absorption spectrophotometry. The results revealed that the cellulose/chitin blends exhibited relatively good mechanical properties, a homogeneous, microporous mesh structure, and the existence of strong hydrogen bonds between molecules of cellulose and chitin when the chitin content was less than 30 wt%, which indicated a good compatibility of the cellulose/chitin materials. Furthermore, in the same chitin content range, Pb2+, Cd2+, and Cu2+ can be adsorbed efficiently onto the cellulose/chitin beads at pH0 = 5, and the sorption capacity of the beads is more than that of chitin flakes. This shows that the hydrophilicity and microporous mesh structure of the blends are favorable for the kinetics of sorption. Preparation of environmentally friendly cellulose/chitin blend materials provides a simple and economical way to remove and recover heavy metals, showing a potential application of chitin as a functional material. Full article
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