Water Environmental Biotechnology
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water Quality and Contamination".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2021) | Viewed by 550
Special Issue Editor
Interests: environmental biotechnology; water and wastewater engineering; microbial and chemical stressors; environmental engineering; water resource management
Special Issue Information
Broadly, biotechnology is any technology based on biology, whether macro- or micro-. Environmental biotechnology is a branch of biotechnology that addresses environmental problems.
For much of the last 100 years, water environmental biotechnologies have focused on the destruction and stabilization of conventional environmental pollutants. These systems have aged past their useful life and are energy-intense and unsustainable in our changing global climate. We are further challenged by the pressing need to address contemporary and emerging pollutants of public health and environmental consequence such as nanomaterials, microplastics, and antibiotic resistance, among others. Exploiting advancements in molecular ecology and borrowing concepts from industrial biotechnology, saavy engineers and scientists are re-envisioning wastewater streams as materials feedstocks. Their innovations in water environmental biotechnology are addressing emerging pollutants and pushing the paradigm toward net-positive resource recovery through the generation of new and sustainable bioenergy and biobased products.
To promote such advances in water environmental biotechnology, this Special Issue of Water invites innovative scientific contributions that tackle one or more of the following challenges:
Advances in molecular ecology, including:
- Development or application of genomic approaches toward improved understanding of the ecophysiology of mixed biological communities; and
- Development, manipulation, or adaptation of biological communities for:
- destruction of emerging contaminants of concern; or
- improved wastewater treatment, bioenergy production, or generation of biobased products.
Advances in water enviromental biotechnology for sustainable and economical:
- Recovery of nutrients from water resources;
- Production of methane, hydrogen, biobased fuels, or electricity during biological water treatment;
- Production of high-value biofeedstocks from wastewater;
- Production of proteins, biopolymers, bioplastics, biofertilizers, nanocomposites, or commmodity chemicals during water treatment or from biofeedstocks resulting from water treatment.
Prof. Dr. Shane Rogers
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Biotechnology
- Molecular ecology
- Nutrient recovery
- Resource recovery
- Biobased products
- Up-cycling
- Circular economy
- Bioeconomy
- Antibiotic resistance
- Emerging chemicals of concern
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