Application of Microbial Technology in Sustainable Wastewater Treatment
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Water Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2026 | Viewed by 13
Special Issue Editors
Interests: microbiome; microbial ecology; virome; microbiota; quantification of target genes; environmental bioengineering; wastewater; aerobic granular sludge; anammox
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Dear Colleagues,
Biological wastewater treatment technologies are widely used due to their cost-effectiveness, sustainability, and environmental benefits in comparison with physicochemical treatments. These systems are often designed and operated purely from an engineering perspective, forgetting the biological aspects involved. Microbial communities involved in these systems are complex and play an essential role for degrading pollutants contained in wastewater. Hence, understanding and managing microorganisms is essential for ensuring optimal process performance.
This Special Issue aims to gather information about microbial communities and their roles, interactions, and dynamics in bioengineering systems for urban and industrial wastewater treatment. In this sense, this collection of work is dedicated to presenting recent research that reveals the advantages, difficulties, and potential advancements associated with the role of microbial ecology in the field of wastewater treatment engineering.
Therefore, we welcome original articles on, but not limited to, the following topics:
- The promotion of microbial consortia of interest for treating urban and industrial wastewater;
- Elucidating microbial interactions to remove emerging pollutants.
Dr. Bárbara Muñoz Palazón
Dr. Aurora Rosa-Masegosa
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- microbial ecology
- microbial dynamics
- wastewater treatment
- environmental microbiology
- microbiology of bioengineering systems
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