Adsorption Technologies in Wastewater Treatment Processes—2nd Edition
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Wastewater Treatment and Reuse".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 March 2026 | Viewed by 1939
Special Issue Editors
Interests: adsorption; nutrient recovery; modeling; heavy metals; wastewater treatment
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Interests: groundwater remediation; water and wastewater treatment; environmental impact assessment; heavy metals, antibiotics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The process of adsorption plays a crucial role in water and wastewater treatment as it can effectively reduce the concentration of harmful substances by attaching the various pollutants (heavy metals, nutrients, organic matters, dyes, etc.) to adsorbent surfaces. In practice, adsorption technology can both improve the quality of drinking water, protecting human health, and also play an important role in industrial wastewater treatment, sewage reuse, seawater desalination, etc. Adsorption has the advantages of being a simple operation, with relatively low costs, strong adaptability, and it even allows for the complete removal of micropollutants, making it extremely important to solving water pollution issues, ensuring water resource security, and achieving sustainable development. Through the continuous improvement and optimization of adsorbents, the efficiency and economy of adsorption technology are constantly improving, providing new opportunities for innovative development in the water treatment industry. The areas of interest that fall withing the scope this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following topics:
(1) Adsorption technology and its combination process;
(2) Various water pollutants, regardless of organic or inorganic origin;
(3) Surface water, groundwater, sea water, drinking water, industrial wastewater, etc.;
(4) Emerging contaminants;
(5) Various modification, optimization, modeling, and regeneration methods;
(6) Machine learning, artificial neural network, deep learning, etc.;
(7) Novel adsorption materials and their characterization.
Dr. Qili Hu
Dr. Liting Hao
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- adsorption
- modeling
- optimization
- novel materials
- emerging contaminants
- recovery
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