Beyond Removal: Transformation Products of Emerging Contaminants in Advanced Treatment and Water Reuse
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Wastewater Treatment and Reuse".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 October 2026 | Viewed by 60
Special Issue Editors
Interests: modeling water and wastewater treatment processes; advanced treatment in water and wastewater systems; nutrient removal and recovery; emerging contaminants and water reuse
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: water and wastewater treatment; water reuse; wastewater quality; transformation products; renewable energy
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, the transformation products (TPs) of emerging contaminants in advanced water and wastewater treatment solutions have become a key issue. In the context of new European requirements, the presence of emerging contaminants in the environment poses an increasing challenge to both human health and ecosystem integrity in order to meet the stricter discharge restrictions for Water and Wastewater Treatment Plants (WWTPs), as the law requires. Potential transformation pathways, TP toxicity, and their mechanisms require still more investigation. In this context, it is necessary to develop and improve assessment methods for technical processes on the detection, quantification, and fate of emerging contaminants and their transformation products across multiple environmental matrices, including air, water, soil, sediments, and biota. The scientific community has increasingly focused on forming TPs of emerging contaminants from environmental organic pollutants in advanced water and wastewater treatment systems. However, there is still a lot of discussion over how these TPs are generated and what the impact is on living terrestrial or aquatic organisms in advanced WWTPs. This will be essential for better evaluation of the sector as a whole at the regional, national, and international levels.
This Special Issue aims to present and disseminate the most recent advances related to the theory, modelling, application, and control of all water and wastewater treatment processes to provide a comprehensive overview of current knowledge, highlight research gaps, and promote strategies for effective monitoring and risk assessment of the Transformation Products of Emerging Contaminants in Advanced Water and Wastewater Treatment Solutions. Advanced analytical approaches, such as high-resolution mass spectrometry, chromatography, and innovative sample preparation techniques, are crucial for identifying not only parent compounds but also degradation or biotransformation products, whose ecological and toxicological impacts are often underestimated in Water and Wastewater Treatment Systems. Original submissions focusing on fundamental and/or practical issues related to all subfields of water and wastewater treatment, methodological innovation alongside environmental relevance, including reviews, original research, and case studies, are welcome.
Dr. Jakub Drewnowski
Dr. Izabela Kruszelnicka
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Advanced Water and Wastewater Treatment Solutions
- transformation products
- emerging contaminants
- Water Reuse
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