Biological Wastewater Treatment: Current Advances and Challenges
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 April 2022) | Viewed by 6701
Special Issue Editor
Interests: novel applications of nutrients removal from wastewater; greenhouse gas emission and mitigation from wastewater treatment; phototroph-based resource recovery from waste streams; micro-pollutants detection and removal in wastewater and sludge systems; mathematical modeling of pollutant biotransformation processes; functional materials for environmental application
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Conventional wastewater treatment processes are electricity-intensive and resource-inefficient. The removal performance of certain pollutants, such as heavy metal, antibiotics, microplastics, etc. is weak. The emissions of greenhouse gases (e.g., CO2, CH4, and N2O) during wastewater treatment might dramatically increase the carbon footprint. Hence, these new challenges are now translating into an urgent call for efficient and sustainable removal, recovery, and production technology.
Manuscripts in this Special Issue are expected to focus on but not limited to the following topics: microbial-based technology for C, N, and P recovery from wastewater; quantification, understanding, and mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions (N2O, CH4, CO2) during wastewater treatment; novel applications of nitrogen removal with reduced carbon emission and energy consumption; microbial remediation of heavy metal contamination; biodegradation of emerging pollutants (such as antibiotics, microplastics); and mathematical modeling of pollutant biotransformation processes in wastewater.
Prof. Dr. Lai Peng
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- resource recovery
- greenhouse gas emissions
- nitrogen removal
- heavy metal
- emerging pollutants
- mathematical modeling
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