Monitoring and Remediation of Pollutants in Soil and Water Using Bio-Based Systems
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Soil and Water".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2024) | Viewed by 328
Special Issue Editors
Interests: bioremediation; phytoremediation; plant-microbe interaction; constructed wetland; dendoremediation; resource recovery; phytotoxicity
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: bioremediation; environmental microbiology; phytoremediation; biological wastewater treatment; microalgae; bioelectrochemical fuel cells
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Water and soil contamination with emerging and legacy pollutants can be effectively addressed through bio-based remediation. Bio-based systems offer the most sustainable, ecologically friendly, and potentially cost-effective approaches for monitoring and remediation compared to traditional methods. These bio-techniques require less energy and leverage natural processes for cleaning, making them ideal for environmental restoration. Beyond cleaning contaminated sites, bio-based systems can also recover valuable bioresources. These resources can include the following:
- Metals or organic materials (from bio-ores and soil mineral deposits);
- Bioenergy feedstock;
- Biomolecules with pharmaceutical, cosmetic, and environmental applications.
Valuable bio-based remediation techniques include phytoremediation, dendroremediation, mycoremediation, bioaugmentation, phycoremediation, zooremediation, and entomoremediation. In this regard, monitoring pollutants on-site, optimization, and commercial scaling of these bio-based technologies are crucial. While some treatments may be promising at the lab scale, implementing them on a larger scale might be difficult or expensive. This Special Issue focuses on different bio-based water and soil remediation technologies, with a particular emphasis on the following:
- Emerging trends and novel bio-based techniques;
- Real-time monitoring and preventative strategies;
- Resource recovery from contaminated sites;
- Optimization and upscaling of promising techniques;
- Risk and hazard reduction during remediation processes;
- Economic and functional viability of bio-based solutions.
Dr. Aqib Hassan Ali Khan
Dr. Fida Hussain
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- bio-based remediation
- biomonitoring
- water
- soil
- pollution
- agricultural runoff
- legacy pollutants
- emerging pollu-tants
- scaling up
- nature-based solution
- toxicology
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