Technologies for Sustainable Wastewater Treatment and Sewage-Sludge Management
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Water Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2022) | Viewed by 7117
Special Issue Editor
Interests: wastewater treatment; sequencing batch reactor; aerobic granular sludge technology; phosphorus removal; improvement of activated sludge; powdered materials in wastewater technology; energy efficiency
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The decline in water quality and the tightened wastewater discharge standards are posing a considerable challenge in the current global water industry. Thus, innovative technologies are urgently needed for wastewater and sewage-sludge treatment to ensure environmental and economic sustainability. The improvement of collecting and treatment systems for wastewater is increasing annual sludge production, further increasing the problem of sewage-sludge disposal. Sewage-sludge disposal routes should be established according to the circular economy concept to promote sustainable recovery pathways and to overcome the barriers that are now limiting material and energy recovery from sewage sludge.
This Special Issue aims to provide a platform for researchers for disseminating recent technological developments and engineering solutions in the areas of wastewater treatment and sewage-sludge management. Within this context, we would like to invite you to submit original research and review articles to disseminate and share new findings on wastewater treatment and/or sewage-sludge management. The potential topics include but are not limited to the following:
- New insights into sustainable nutrient removal and energy/resource recovery from wastewater;
- Advances in the development of innovative wastewater treatment and sewage-sludge technologies in wastewater treatment plants;
- Technologies for the removal of contaminants of emerging concern such as antibiotic resistance genes and microplastics;
- The lifecycle analysis of sewage-sludge treatment and reuse pathways;
- Circular economy and energy efficiency in wastewater treatment plants;
Novel and state-of-the-art processing of sewage sludge to produce high-value products (e.g., fertilizers and biobased feedstocks).
Dr. Adam Masłoń
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- wastewater/sludge treatment technologies
- innovative treatment technologies
- energy/resource recovery from wastewater/sludge
- nutrient removal
- circular economy
- energy efficiency in wastewater management
- contaminants of emerging concern
- sustainability
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