Water Use in Processing Industry
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water Use and Scarcity".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2023) | Viewed by 2256
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
An intensification and acceleration of drought and flood phenomena on a planetary scale threaten the world’s water resources. Moreover, these phenomena could directly impact the quality and availability of water. Therefore, factories in the future will have to be economical and responsible.
Significant efforts have been developed in recent decades to reduce water consumption at the primary source, reuse or even recycle effluents after adequate purification treatments, and in some cases replace highly polluting technologies with less-polluting ones.
However, these examples are scattered and often inaccessible. The mission of this Special Issue, Water Use in Processing Industry, is to capitalize on and make accessible innovations in water saving at the plant level.
Authors are encouraged to submit papers focused on applications, methods, or tools that address the following:
#1 Reduction of water consumption by recycling or reuse with or without effluent treatment.
#2 Processing technologies that consume less water and pollute less.
#3 Clean and intelligent technologies to purify effluents.
#4 Comprehensive accounting of effects related to the reduction of water/recycling of effluents (LCA, economic study, etc.).
#5 Case studies specific to the processing industry (food industries, beverages, textiles, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, etc.).
Dr. Hédi Romdhana
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- processing industry
- water saving
- effluent treatment
- water integration
- water footprint
- industrial water network
- water reuse
- water recycling
- water inventory
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