Decentralized Domestic Wastewater and Stormwater Treatment Systems
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Wastewater Treatment and Reuse".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 October 2020) | Viewed by 3704
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Daer colleagues,
Decentralized wastewater and stormwater treatment systems have shown an increasing trend worldwide, as their application could save freshwater with a reduced energy cost in comparison with centralized systems. In this context, a number of technologies were developed and tested in the last decades for on-site domestic wastewater treatment, including sand filters, membrane bioreactors, constructed wetlands, and biofilm reactors. In addition, recently, other interesting technologies, such as microbial fuel cells or advanced oxidation processes, were examined. Similarly, for stormwater management, several other decentralized approaches could be applied such as green roofs, vegetated swales, and bioretention cells. In many cases, nature-based decentralized systems also help to attain benefits like improved human well-being, the absorption of air pollution, and moisture retention, thus lowering the ambient temperature and attenuating the urban heat island effect in cities. Despite the recent development of the abovementioned technologies, there are still many drawbacks that should be overcome in order to improve their sustainability, such as cost, energy requirement, operation, effluent quality, aesthetic, and acceptability.
The main purpose of this Special Issue is to propose a series of novel studies for the decentralized treatment of wastewater and stormwater in order to improve their overall sustainability and acceptability.
Prof. Dr. Michalis Fountoulakis
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Nature-based solutions for water
- Constructed wetlands
- Membrane bioreactors
- Microbial fuel cells
- Advanced oxidation processes
- Green roofs
- Bioretention basins
- Greywater treatment
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