Water Purification Processes: Principles, Methods and Applications
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Wastewater Treatment and Reuse".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 May 2024) | Viewed by 2203
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Interests: environment optimal control and resource recovery; odor assessment and control; wastewater/waste air optimal treatment and resource recovery
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
One of the major challenges in the world is to provide clean water and sanitation for all. The declining water quality has a direct negative impact on human health and other biological populations. The key to properly addressing the issues of water pollution and water scarcity is to treat and recycle wastewater (and recover resources). Currently, there has been substantial improvement in the design and operation of water and wastewater treatment systems. Although these treatment-technologies have proven to be reliable to treat water and wastewater containing a complex mixture of pollutants, the development and application of innovative hybrid processes and concepts are still needed in order to meet increasingly stringent control regulations. Also, emerging/persisting contaminants (e.g., PFAS and microplastics) and antimicrobial resistant bacteria have recently been found in various water sources, while the conventional technologies are not designed to remove these pollutants. Thus, researchers have also focused on developing hybrid eco-technologies that combine the operational advantages of advanced technologies or physico-chemical treatment systems and conventional biotechnologies in order to better remove these pollutants.
The objective of this Special Issue is to provide a platform for researchers to report new advances in treatment technologies for water purification, disinfection, desalination, and wastewater reuse, etc. Both original research and review articles are welcome.
Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:
- Wastewater reuse
- Water purification, disinfection and desalination
- Pollutant degradation and resourcization
- Risk assessment and removal of emerging/persisting contaminants
- Greenhouse gas and odor emission during water treatment
- Life cycle assessment of water treatment technologies
- Emerging methods of biological and electrochemical water treatments
- New materials for water treatment
- Innovative hybrid wastewater treatment technologies
- Advances and challenges toward sustainable water treatment
Prof. Dr. Dezhao Liu
Dr. Changwei Li
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- water quality
- pollutant removal
- risk management
- resource recycling
- water and wastewater reuse
- emerging/persisting contaminants
- hybrid water treatment technology
- sustainable water treatment technology
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