Biological Wastewater Treatment towards a Sustainable Circular Economy
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Wastewater Treatment and Reuse".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2023) | Viewed by 7784
Special Issue Editors
Interests: treatment and remediation technologies for contaminated sites; fate and removal of emerging contaminants in environment; sustainable reactive material for the removal of pollutants from contaminated waters and soils
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Interests: water and wastewater treatment for traditional and emerging contaminant removal; innovative processes for the biological treatment of contaminated soil
Interests: biochar; adsorption; biodegradation; endocrine disrupters; wastewater treatment; emerging contaminants; illicit drugs; back-diffusion; numerical model; wastewater treatment plants; carbon footprint
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The application of the principles of the circular economy on the water sector is compulsory to foresee the issues related to the increasing water scarcity and deterioration of water quality worldwide.
Therefore, we need to contribute to consolidating the idea that wastewater treatments are an opportunity to convert wastes into resources. Indeed, further research is needed on effective and sustainable options for the valorization of all the outputs of those treatments, i.e., the final effluents and the waste sludge.
To this purpose, particular attention is posed to biological treatments, since they are considered environmentally friendly, effective and low-cost compared to physicochemical and thermal technologies.
Moreover, biodegradation can be also able to remove recalcitrant and emerging contaminants, such as pharmaceuticals, or biological agents, e.g., SARS-CoV-2. These practises are in accordance with all the strategies adopted by the European Union to stimulate the conversion from a linear to a circural economy, such as the Regulation for water reuse 2020/741/EU and several Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including clean water (SDG 6), affordable and clean energy (SDG 7) and climate action (SDG 13).
The Special Issue of Water entitled “Biological Wastewater Treatment Towards a Sustainable Circular Economy” would contribute to this topical reasearch needs for a more resilent and safe environment.
The Special Issue is now open for submissions. Accepted papers will be published rapidly and will be listed together on the Special Issue website.
Prof. Dr. Boni Maria Rosaria
Dr. Camilla Di Marcantonio
Dr. Simone Marzeddu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- anaerobic digestion
- bio-based solutions
- biodegradation
- bioeconomy
- COVID-19
- energy recovery
- environmental impacts
- life cycle assessment
- resource recovery
- waste management
- water reuse
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