Technological Advancements in Wastewater Treatment for Economic and Environmental Sustainability
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sustainability and Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (26 March 2023) | Viewed by 2014
Special Issue Editor
Interests: advanced biological wastewater treatment; energy and resource recovery; membrane separation, including membrane bioreactors (MBRs) and the removal of persistent and micropollutants from water and wastewater
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Modern research work on wastewater treatment focuses on the increased demand from the industry for developing efficient advanced technologies to bring local and global economic and environmental sustainability. It is a well-known fact that wastewater is a major source of valuable resources and hence, the research experts focus on developing innovative processes and strategies to recover these resources to gain economic and environmental benefits to the stakeholders for long-term sustainability in the water sector.
Recent research indicated that there is a high potential for developing efficient technologies for energy and resource recovery during advanced wastewater treatment. Domestic and industrial wastewater discharges consist of large amounts of organics, nutrients, and heavy metals. Due to nonexistence of efficient technologies for complete treatment of such waste streams economically, water authorities and other industries incur enormous amount of funds to treat, pre-treat or discharge (to sewers) or disposal/transport (to a different site) of wastewater. This situation has also lead to serious environmental challenges. To overcome from this state, there is a high demand from the industry for research studies to develop efficient, economical and viable treatment technologies, which could bring sufficient revenues through energy and resource recovery, for long-term sustainability of multiple industries.
This special issue focusses on publishing a wide range of high quality research articles on the “Technological Advancements in Wastewater Treatment for Economic and Environmental Sustainability” in the “Sustainability” Journal. Well-written manuscripts, which demonstrate innovative strategies and processes of wastewater treatment focusing economic and environmental sustainability, will be selected for publication. Therefore, this special issue would be very useful for both future researchers and all other industrial stakeholders as it will contain research articles consisting innovative and a widespread of information and data required for commercializing novel, efficient and sustainable wastewater treatment systems.
The current special issue invites the researchers to submit their review articles and original research manuscripts based on the following topic areas.
- Wastewater: A major source for energy and resource recovery
- Recent advancements in innovative/hybrid wastewater treatment: Challenges and opportunities
- Potential technologies for efficient energy/resource recovery from waste-streams: Theoretical and experimental research
- Advanced wastewater treatment technologies for sustainable water and other industries
- Package type decentralised wastewater treatment technologies for economic and environmental sustainability
- Techno-economic assessment of advanced wastewater treatment technologies for sustainable full-scale application towards a circular economy
- Upgrading existing conventional wastewater treatment systems to overcome present challenges and achieve new benchmarks: Towards Economic and Environmental Sustainability
Dr. Dimuth Navaratna
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Impact of incomplete/inefficient wastewater treatment technologies for achieving local/global economic and environmental sustainability
- Advanced anaerobic biological wastewater treatment techniques for long-term economic and environmental sustainability
- Energy and resource recovery potential in waste-streams for developing viable cost effective treatment technologies
- Anaerobic membrane bioreactor (AnMBR) for decentralised sustainable industry wastewater pre-treatment
- Innovative physical, biological and chemical wastewater treatment technologies
- Potential of efficient nutrient recovery via struvite precipitation from anaerobically pre-treated wastewater
- Recovery of value-added nutrient-based products from waste-streams for attracting additional revenue
- Challenges in removal and recovery of nutrient from wastewater in full-scale plants
- Advanced wastewater processes incorporated membrane separation and other advanced physical treatment technologies for economic and environmental sustainability
- Development of cost-effective process configurations for high performance sustainable wastewater treatment systems
- Reduction of operational and maintenance costs through technological advancements in wastewater treatment
- Feasibility of producing value added products from resources recovered from wastewater
- Techno-economic evaluation/analysis for modern wastewater treatment
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