Environmental Biotechnology Applied to Water and Wastewater Treatment Processes
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Wastewater Treatment and Reuse".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 September 2025 | Viewed by 361
Special Issue Editor
Interests: environmental biotechnology; wastewater treatment; environmental microbiology; microbial biotechnology
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Dear Colleagues,
Environmental biotechnology offers remarkable new tools for pollution prevention in water and wastewater treatment that have not been widely available before now. These new tools not only prevent pollution but can also significantly cut energy demand, natural resource consumption, and production costs while creating high-quality intermediates or consumer products. The accelerated uptake of new industrial biotechnology processes could lead to further pollution prevention, wastewater reduction, and energy cost savings in related services such as wastewater disposal or energy production. Consequently, the development of new environmentally friendly biotechnology that are able to quantitatively and quickly remove organic pollutants from water and wastewater has become an extremely urgent challenge. The microbiological processes use living organisms such as bacteria to degrade organic pollution and convert it into usable forms.
This Special Issue aims to collect original, high-quality articles related to water and wastewater treatment. Fundamental and applied research papers covering multidisciplinary topics, as well as review papers with new perspectives, will be considered.
- Recent advances in water and wastewater treatment biotechnology;
- Development of novel biotechnologies, involving anaerobic digestion, aerobic digestion, biomembrane process, activated sludge method, bioelectrochemical technologies, etc.;
- The novel design and development of water and wastewater treatment biotechnology reactors;
- The combination technologies of biological treatments with chemical oxidation, physical adsorption/separation, etc.
Dr. Xiaohu Li
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- wastewater treatment
- biotechnology
- anaerobic digestion
- aerobic digestion
- biomembrane
- activated sludge
- bioelectrochemistry
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