Pollution in Industrial Wastewaters: Novel Approaches and Quantification of the Impacts
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water Quality and Contamination".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2023) | Viewed by 500
Special Issue Editors
Interests: drinking water; chemical-physical processes; sewage sludge minimization; thermophilic treatments; WWTP optimization; membrane processes
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Interests: sustainable and circular wastewater treatment plants; carbon footprint of wastewater treatment plants; resources reuse/recovery; emerging contaminants in water and sludge; microplastics; sludge minimization; advanced oxidation processes; blue-green infrastructures
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Interests: circular economy; resource recovery; preparation of innovative adsorbent materials for emerging pollutants; solid-state hydrogen storage and energy storage; hydrogen production; innovative nanomaterials and nanoparticles; physicochemical characterization in the solid state
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Interests: colloidal chemistry; non-radioactive tracers for nanomaterial rheology; correlative microscopy and bio-interface imaging applied to nanoparticle distribution and bioaccumulation; nanoparticle-based photocatalysis and photothermal materials for renewable energy and antimicrobial applications
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Industrial wastewaters are the most critical types of wastewater in term of pollutant content. This Special Issue aims to collect up-to-date papers that explore novel approaches for detecting and tackling pollution in industrial wastewaters and for quantifying the impacts on the ecosystems. Both research papers and review articles are welcome. Moreover, short communications of preliminary but significant results and case studies (e.g., optimization of wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) processes) will be taken into consideration.
Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:
Novel approaches
- Technologies for pollution prevention;
- Management of high-strength wastewaters and seawater wastes;
- Contaminants removal by advanced technologies (e.g., photocatalysis, electrocoagulation, bioremediation);
- Emerging contaminants and novel approaches for detection (e.g., analysis of microplastics and anthropogenic nanomaterials in complex matrixes);
- Reuse and recycling of treatment’s residues.
Quantification of the impacts
- Risk analysis and risk management;
- Impact on the environment (LCA, GHG emissions, etc.);
- Impact of polluted wastewaters on WWTPs’ biota (including distribution, bioaccumulation, and toxicity);
- Respirometric tests and other direct or indirect methods for online quantification of biomass within operating WWTPs;
- Emergence and transmission of pollution-induced antimicrobial resistance.
Authors are invited to submit a preliminary abstract and a tentative title to the Editors in order to determine whether the topic fits the scope of the Special Issue.
Prof. Dr. Maria Cristina Collivignarelli
Dr. Marco Carnevale Miino
Prof. Dr. Chiara Milanese
Prof. Dr. Yuri Antonio Diaz Fernandez
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- emerging contaminants
- respirometric tests
- WWTP’s biota
- advanced treatments
- LCA
- antimicrobial resistance
