Water-Energy-Environment Nexus – 3rd Volume
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2023) | Viewed by 4539
Special Issue Editor
Interests: bioremediation of hazardous chemicals; biofuel; biological treatment of wastewater; antibiotics and nanoparticles in the environment; anaerobic digestion
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Dear Colleagues,
The water-energy-environment nexus (WEEN) represents important interstate connections of water, energy, and the environment, as security in water, energy, and the environment is associated with human, economic, and environmental sustainability. This interweaving is strengthening under aggregating natural resource scarcity and climate change. An understanding of the difficulties of these complex relationships is necessary to balance the needs of diverse stakeholders, local and international policy decisions, and to protect valuable resources regarding the management of water, energy, and the environment. Recently developed, highly efficient technologies for water, sustainable energy, and environmental interconnection, as well as future energy-efficient possibilities to save energy and protect the environment, are urgently needed to achieve sustainable development. Recognizing the critical need to focus on sustainability in WEEN, an appropriately themed Special Issue on the water, energy, and environment nexus and the related potential fields of biodeterioration and biodegradation would be of great interest to the community of modern engineering science.
This Special Issue intends to publish selected quality papers in water, energy, and the environment, as well as new methodologies aimed at improving the current state-of-the-art technologies in the fields of water, energy, environment, and the related potential fields of biodeterioration and biodegradation. All submitted articles suitable for the water-energy-environment nexus will be subjected to rigorous peer review to ensure the highest levels of quality, and the review process will be carried out as quickly as possible.
The topics include but are not limited to:
Water
- Advanced membrane technologies and processes in drinking water, desalination, and wastewater treatment;
- Watershed management strategies for green growth;
- Water and wastewater treatment;
- Seawater desalination;
- Potable water treatment and ground water quality;
- Water reuse;
- Hybrid treatment systems;
- Municipal and industrial effluent treatment;
- Urban management in water use, infrastructure, planning, and reuse of water resources;
- Advanced oxidation processes;
- Emerging technologies for nutrient and carbon recovery from water and wastewater;
- Emerging contaminants: pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs), microplastics, and antibiotic resistance;
- Environmental protection and pollution prevention from industrial effluent contaminants;
- Nanotechnology for water, seawater desalination, and wastewater treatment.
Energy
- Development of new alternative fuels, biofuels, and energy processing technologies;
- New developments in microalgae for biofuels, value-added products, and energy production;
- Improved physical and chemical properties of alternative fuels, energy, and renewable resources;
- Development of bioreactors for waste-to-energy conversion technologies;
- Novel feedstocks and pathways for biofuel and energy production;
- Application of nanocatalysts and biochar for enhanced biofuel and energy production;
- Conversion of gaseous pollutants to biofuels and energy;
- Waste management: systems and processes for energy and material recovery;
- Biomass processes and biofuels;
- Nanotechnology for energy, fuel production, conversion, and storage;
- Pathways towards integrated and sustainable biorefinery.
Environment
- Risk assessment and environmental analysis: human and ecological risk assessment, environmental prediction and risk analysis/assessment strategies, life cycle analysis;
- Environmental modeling and simulation;
- Waste minimization: waste treatment and disposal;
- Landfill and waste repository design, operation, and management;
- Land remediation and recovery;
- Tools, techniques, and technologies for air pollution prevention and treatment;
- Environmental pollution, air pollutants, and human health impacts;
- Bioremediation of contaminated lands, soil chemistry, and amendments;
- Sustainable consumption and green practices;
- Wetland ecosystems;
- Greenhouse gases and management;
- Biochar production: characterization and applications, pre- and post-processing, handling, storage, commercialization, and co-products (bio-oil and gas);
- Fate and transport of emerging contaminants in soil;
- Carbon dioxide capture and sequestration.
Prof. Dr. Ramaraj Boopathy
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- biofuel
- wastewater treatment
- bioremediation
- anaerobic digestion
- biodegradation
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