Decentralised Water Treatment Technologies
A special issue of Clean Technologies (ISSN 2571-8797).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2024) | Viewed by 8892
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Interests: water and soil security; wastewater treatment
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Interests: bioprocess engineering; wastewater treatment; metabolic Engineering
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We invite you to contribute to this Special Issue (SI) entitled “Decentralised Water Treatment Technologies”.
Conventional water treatment technologies have traditionally relied on treating contaminated water in a treatment plant; for example, pipe networks or open channels are used for the transportation of contaminated water from its source for treatment at a particular point. However, the ever-increasing pressures due to energy costs, rapid urbanization, population growth, geo-political problems, aging water infrastructure and others raised serious concerns regarding the long-term viability of these “centralized systems” to provide the essential clean water. Consequently, decentralized systems where the water treatment plant itself has the flexibility to move to a source of contaminated water seem to be emerging as a solution of interest.
In this context, centralized systems refer to those water treatment plants/units where the ability of the systems to adapt to clean water requirements to the local needs and requirements is minimum. On the other hand, there is freedom and flexibility for a decentralized system to adapt its design and apply a “fit-for-purpose” approach which makes it possible to match the requirements for treating the contaminated water, keeping the end-users in mind. In principle, these decentralised water treatment systems can rely on any, or combination of, physical, chemical and biological principles for water treatment. However, several additional issues may be addressed before the implementation of these technologies (e.g., sensor telemetry for the monitoring of these systems, artificial intelligence (AI)-driven water quality monitoring).
In addressing these trends, we aim to publish this journal Special Issue on Decentralised Water Treatment Technologies.
We welcome your contributions on any topics that address or are related to the sub-topics shown below as keywords. Both review and research papers are welcome.
We look forward to your active participation in this endeavour, and receiving your contributions.
Dr. Diganta B. Das
Dr. Kashyap Kumar Dubey
Dr. Lipika Deka
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- decentralized water treatment technology involving any principle (e.g., physical, chemical and biological principles)
- decentralised toxicity analysis of transformants
- scale-up of decentralized water treatment technology
- sensor telemetry for the monitoring of decentralized water treatment technology
- robotics for the control and operation of decentralized water treatment technology
- human–system interactions in decentralized water treatment technology
- artificial intelligence (AI) and digital twinning (DT) in the design of decentralized water treatment technology
- system of systems (SoSs) approaches in the design of decentralized water treatment technology
- cyber-physical systems (CPSs) for decentralized water treatment technology
- fault tolerance and risk analysis in decentralized water treatment technology
- field implementation of decentralized water treatment technology (case studies)
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