Emerging Materials, Concepts and Processes for Wastewater Treatment Sector for Sustainable Future
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Wastewater Treatment and Reuse".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 November 2022) | Viewed by 21116
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Rapid industrialization to meet the needs of the ever-growing population is putting immense pressure on our water resources around the globe. To cope with the expanding population, efficient wastewater treatment processes are paramount to devising processes and methods to recycle and reuse treated wastewater, as well as to recover other useful resources, e.g., materials and energy recovery. Such methods and techniques will shift the paradigm from considering wastewater as a burden to a useful resource that can generate energy and produce/recover materials (rare earth metals, nutrients and beyond). Thus, a step closer to water resource and recovery facilities (WRRFs) will be realized instead of wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs).
The aim of the current Special Issue is to explore materials, methods and processes in all aspects of wastewater treatment processes, covering primary, secondary and/or tertiary wastewater treatment processes. Topics of interest for the current Special Issue include but are not limited to:
- Biologically-Enhanced Primary Treatment of Wastewater;
- Adsorption of Conventional and Emerging Water Contaminants from Wastewater;
- Advanced Oxidation Processes;
- Functional Materials for Wastewater Treatment Processes;
- Concept of 3Rs—Reduce, Recycle and Reuse—in Water Treatment Sector;
- New Strategies for Integrated Wastewater Treatment Industry.
Dr. Muhammad Rizwan Azhar
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- wastewater treatment
- biological-enhanced primary treatment
- advanced oxidation
- functional materials
- nanomaterials
- carbon structures
- composites
- hybrid materials
- metal organic frameworks
- resource recovery
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