Innovative Technologies on Wastewater 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: 15 December 2026 | Viewed by 2
Special Issue Editors
Interests: wastewater treatment; microbial community; artificial intelligence; machine learning; quorum sensing; emerging contaminant
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The escalating global water crisis and the increasing complexity of industrial and municipal effluents demand a fundamental rethink of how we treat and recycle water resources. Conventional treatment processes frequently fall short in removing recalcitrant emerging contaminants and meeting the increasingly stringent standards required for safe water reuse. Recent years have witnessed remarkable breakthroughs across a broad technological spectrum, spanning advanced oxidation and electrocatalytic processes, membrane separations, bioelectrochemical systems, and intelligent reactor design. These advances offer unprecedented opportunities to degrade complex pollutants efficiently while enabling resource recovery and minimizing energy consumption, essential for accelerating the transition toward a sustainable and circular water economy.
We invite authors to submit original research articles and comprehensive review papers exploring cutting-edge technologies for wastewater treatment and water reuse. Contributions addressing fundamental degradation mechanisms, process optimization, system integration, and pilot- or full-scale engineering validation are particularly welcome. We also strongly encourage interdisciplinary submissions that bridge environmental engineering with materials science, electrochemistry, biotechnology, data analytics, and process intensification to develop robust and scalable solutions to current water challenges.
Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Advanced technologies for wastewater treatment and water reuse;
- Novel materials and functional media for pollutant removal;
- Biological treatment innovation and hybrid treatment systems;
- Membrane separation, fouling mitigation, and water reclamation;
- Fate, transformation, and targeted removal of emerging contaminants;
- Resource recovery from wastewater, including water, energy, and nutrients.
Dr. Jinfeng Wang
Dr. Yao Pan
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- wastewater treatment
- water reuse
- advanced oxidation processes
- membrane technologies
- resource recovery
- emerging contaminants
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