Advanced Wastewater Treatment and Nutrient Recovery
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 April 2021) | Viewed by 3820
Special Issue Editor
Interests: biological wastewater treatment; advanced wastewater treatment; aeration; sludge treatment; membrane technology; energy efficiency; nutrient recovery
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In 2014 we celebrated 100 years of the activated sludge process for wastewater treatment, and this celebration trigged several discussions about the future of the activated sludge process and future developments in wastewater treatment. Personally, I am of the opinion that the activated sludge process is the backbone of our treatment infrastructure and that the vast majority of wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) will continue to rely on the activated sludge process in its many variants. It is a well-established and well-researched technology that treats our wastewaters reliably for an affordable price.
However, to set up our treatment processes for the requirements of the future, we need to consider additional treatment steps that can supplement our currently implemented technologies and allows us—more than today—to design fit-for-purpose treatment concepts. Regarding the effluent quality, such technologies need to be able to deal with chemicals of emerging concern, microplastics, and antibiotic resistance. At the same time, we need to recover more of the valuable resources that are contained in our wastewaters, including nutrients such as phosphorus.
This Special Issue of Water seeks the submission of papers that focus on advanced wastewater treatment as an additional treatment step after conventional WWTPs as well as nutrient recovery processes that can be implemented into existing process schemes as add-on processes.
Prof. Dr. Jörg Krampe
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- membrane technology
- activated carbon
- ozone
- UV
- AOP
- P recovery
- antibiotic resistance
- emerging chemicals of concern
- microplastics
